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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 21 (Grade K Counselor): When I Feel Worried or Scared

Help Kindergarten students understand worry and fear with stories, calming tools, trusted adults, body clues, and help-seeking practice.

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Unit Plan 20 (Grade K Counselor): My Calm-Down Toolbox

Build Kindergarten calm-down toolbox skills with breathing, counting, stretching, quiet breaks, help-seeking, and safe ready-to-learn choices.

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Unit Plan 19 (Grade K Counselor): My Strengths and Things I Like

Help Kindergarten students name strengths, interests, and things they are learning with sentence frames, drawing, partner sharing, and belonging.

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Unit Plan 18 (Grade K Counselor): Safe Choices at School

Review Kindergarten safe and responsible choices with school setting picture sorts, trusted adults, help-seeking, and safe/unsafe practice.

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Unit Plan 17 (Grade K Counselor): My First School Goal

Teach Kindergarten goal setting with small school goals, strengths, listening, responsibility, and one-step practice for classroom success.

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Unit Plan 16 (Grade K Counselor): How to Join Play

Teach Kindergarten joining play with friendly phrases, listening, waiting, choosing another activity, and adult help for respectful peer play.

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Unit Plan 15 (Grade K Counselor): Listening to a Friend

Teach Kindergarten friendship listening with partner sharing, turn-taking, repeat-back responses, kind listening, and respectful peer interaction.

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Unit Plan 14 (Grade K Counselor): Stop, Think, Choose

Teach Kindergarten problem-solving with stop-think-choose steps, puppet conflicts, safe solutions, respectful words, and adult help.

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Unit Plan 13 (Grade K Counselor): Small Problems and Big Problems

Teach Kindergarten small and big problems with problem-size sorting, trusted adults, help-seeking words, and safe next steps.

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Unit Plan 12 (Grade K Counselor): Mistakes Help Us Learn

Teach Kindergarten growth mindset with mistakes, try-again words, help-seeking, personal strengths, and still-learning practice.

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Unit Plan 11 (Grade K Counselor): Feelings in My Body

Teach Kindergarten body clues with feeling words, body outlines, coping tools, trusted adults, and help-seeking for big emotions.

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AI Fact-Check Studios: Teaching Students to Challenge Machine Answers

Teach AI Fact-Check Studios where students verify machine answers, check sources, spot bias, and revise responses with evidence.

Parent Tips Featured

Parent Tips: The After-School Crash—Helping Kids Reset Before Homework Starts

Help parents manage the after-school crash with a 20-minute reset using snack, movement, quiet, and connection before homework starts.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 10 (Grade K Counselor): Name the Feeling, Choose a Tool

Teach Kindergarten feelings toolbox skills with emotion words, body clues, calming tools, breathing, breaks, and help-seeking practice.

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Unit Plan 9 (Grade K Counselor): We All Belong in Our Class

Build Kindergarten belonging with class puzzles, handprints, kind words, helpful actions, listening, and welcoming choices.

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Unit Plan 8 (Grade K Counselor): Asking for Help

Teach Kindergarten help-seeking with trusted adults, big feelings, safety scenarios, and simple phrases for asking for help.

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Unit Plan 7 (Grade K Counselor): Calming My Body

Teach Kindergarten calming tools with breathing, counting, quiet breaks, body clues, big feelings, and help-seeking practice.

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6-8 Lesson Plans Featured

Lesson Plan (Grades 6-8): Build a Tiny House - Area, Volume, and Smart Design in a Space-Saving Challenge

Design a tiny house challenge for grades 6-8 with area, volume, scale layouts, budgets, constraints, and math-based design reasoning.

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K-2 Lesson Plans Featured

Lesson Plan (Grades K-2): Kindness Mailbox Project - Opinion Writing, Community Building, and SEL Connections

Build K-2 classroom community with a Kindness Mailbox project that blends opinion writing, kind messages, reasons, and SEL.

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The Admin Angle: Smarter Student Placement

Build balanced class placements that account for academics, behavior, peer dynamics, services, teacher fit, and teacher workload.

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Civic Action Sprints: Solving One Local Problem in Two Weeks

Teach Civic Action Sprints that help students research local problems, gather evidence, write proposals, and practice real civic problem-solving.

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Unit Plan 6 (Grade K Counselor): Taking Turns and Sharing

Teach Kindergarten sharing and turn-taking with waiting practice, small problem solving, safe choices, and friendly phrases for asking turns.

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Unit Plan 5 (Grade K Counselor): Personal Space Bubbles

Teach Kindergarten personal space with space bubbles, ask-first language, safe greetings, line safety, sharing, turn-taking, and safe choices.

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Unit Plan 4 (Grade K Counselor): Kind Words and Helpful Actions

Teach Kindergarten kindness with friendly words, helpful actions, friendship stories, kind/unkind sorting, and classroom belonging.

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Unit Plan 3 (Grade K Counselor): Listening Like a Learner

Teach Kindergarten listening skills with eyes, ears, body, and brain, two-step directions, story practice, and safe school choices.