Worksheets & Activities for High School Social Emotional Learning

Healthy Choices, Reducing Risk, Emotions

This worksheet-based activity helps teens develop the life skill of seeing how their choices create consequences. Scenarios help students think through the near-term and long-term emotional impact of their choices.

Making Healthy Choices / Reducing Risk, Goal Setting, Empowerment, Self-Awareness, Responsibility

This teen social emotional learning activity helps students link goal setting with choices and consequences. The worksheet helps students see that sometimes the tasks we have to do in order to reach our goals aren't fun, but it's a little easier when we focus on the positive outcome / consequences of persevering.

Making Healthy Choices / Reducing Risk, Acting Responsibly, Managing Influences

This high school social emotional learning activity connects choices with consequences—an essential life skill. Teens create a movie scene that shows what happens when someone makes all good choices or all bad choices. A worksheet guides students to have story characters follow a path of bad judgement and see how it turns out, or follow a path of good choices that results in positive consequences.

Goal Setting, Health Decision Making, Self Awareness, Growth Mindset

In this activity, teens identify career paths by analyzing their own interests, abilities, and work ethic. In Step 2, students use a worksheet to set goals and list steps they can take now to help them on their desired path.

Communication Skills, Setting Boundaries, Positive Interpersonal Relationships, Conflict Resolution

This activity presents teens with scenarios that will help them define healthy ways of communicating during a conflict. The worksheet guides high school students in how to pause and gather more information and to think before posting online.

Conflict Resolution, Communication skills

Using this social emotional learning worksheet, teens learn life skills for conflict resolution, including goal setting and how to apply health communication skills to resolve conflict.

History and Social Change, Conflict Resolution, Communication Skills, Setting Boundaries

This activity helps students define healthy ways to communicate and resolve conflict between groups with different opinions. The lesson plan suggests various social movements and moments in history as a backdrop to discuss healthy ways to communicate, protest, and encourage social change.

Self-awareness, Strategies for managing emotions

This week-long social emotional learning activity helps teens to evaluate their emotions and to develop strategies for increasing positive attitudes. A printable worksheet makes it easy to practice gratitude journaling.

Managing Emotions, Self Awareness, Making Healthy Choices

With this video and worksheet, high school students learn about why some activities help create longer lasting happiness and how to choose activities that increase emotional well being.