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Grade Range: - 11
The Start Empathy Toolkit provides a roadmap and materials for teaching empathy to students in all grades. The 85-page downloadable PDF guide focuses on three steps to learning - Prepare, Engage, and Reflect & Act. Lessons included in the toolkit have suggested time, directions, appropriate grade levels, and materials needed.
In the Classroom
Include lessons and materials found on this site within your classroom to develop empathy and community. Engage students in your activities by creating word clouds of words that promote empathy and understanding using a word cloud creation tool such as WordClouds, <a href="/single.cfm?id=17594">reviewed here</a>. Develop those words even further by using Answer Garden, <a href="/single.cfm?id=10937">reviewed here</a>, as an anonymous answer response tool. For example, one activity focuses on Appreciating Those Behind the Scenes. Create an Answer Garden poll for students to share specific ideas on those that help behind the scenes and ways to express appreciation for their work. Extend student learning by asking them to create and share ways for others to demonstrate empathy. Provide options for students to create videos using Adobe Spark Video Creator, <a href="/single.cfm?id=18831">reviewed here</a>, design digital books using Book Creator, <a href="/single.cfm?id=17988">reviewed here</a>, or write a poem using the Poem Generator, <a href="/single.cfm?id=18552">reviewed here</a>.
At Home
Share this empathy toolkit with your student’s teachers and administrators to use with social and emotional learning lessons. Browse through the activities included in this resource to find ideas and suggestions for discussing and developing empathy with your student.
Tags
racism, social and emotional learning, emotions,