Meesha Makes Friends Social Awareness SEL STEM Activity
Meesha Makes Friends Social Awareness SEL STEM Activity
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Integrate STEM, Social Emotional Learning, and Literacy!
Making new friends can be hard! You aren’t alone if you have some worries about making new friends.
In this STEM Challenge, students design a mini-model of a “good friend” using cardboard and recyclable materials
Students use sentence starters, so they can feel comfortable connecting with new people.
CASEL Framework: Social Awareness
This activity is a part of a series of STEM resources designed to follow the CASEL Framework for social emotional learning.
According to CASEL, Social Awareness focuses on the abilities to understand the perspectives of and empathize with others, including those from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and contexts.
This includes the capacities to feel compassion for others, understand broader historical and social norms for behavior in different settings, and recognize family, school, and community resources and supports.
Material List:
- Cardboard/cardstock
- Scissors
- Tape/glue
- Markers
- Recyclable materials
- Meesha Makes Friends by Tom Percival
Includes:
- Teacher Instructions
- Student STEM Journal
- Student Instructions
- Engineering Design Process Poster
- Read Aloud STEM Activity
- Vocabulary Words (Awkward, Comfortable, Unpredictable)
- Mindful Moments Strategy, Activity, and Writing Reflection