Empathy Lessons, Activities & Games for School Counseling
Build empathy through activities students can connect to real friendships, classroom situations, and everyday choices. This collection includes ready-to-use empathy lessons, small groups, individual counseling resources, games, and activities for perspective taking, identifying feelings, kindness, belonging, and prosocial behavior.
Resources include discussion prompts, scenarios, student reflection pages, printable and digital games, counselor guides, and data tools. Each resource is different, so check the full product description for the grade range, format, and everything included before choosing the best fit for your students.
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Looking for low-prep counseling activities to use with the students in an individual counseling setting? Need to make sure all of your curriculum follows research-based best practices? This individual counseling curriculum bundle is designed to be used with students in a tier...
In this classroom counseling lesson, students will define and explain what belonging means at school! Through engaging and hands on activities, they’ll foster empathy and connection with their classmates. Includes: Detailed Counselor's Guide with instructions Engaging and interactive slide deck that’s completely...
Support students as they build stronger relationships and social awareness with this engaging 6-week Empathy small group curriculum. Students will learn to identify their own emotions, recognize emotions in others, practice empathy, consider different perspectives, and strengthen active listening skills through...
This 6-week middle school empathy counseling group is designed to help students recognize, practice, and promote empathy. In addition, students will practice perspective-taking. This in-depth curriculum includes everything you need to run a successful middle school school counseling small group...
Looking for low-prep counseling activities to use with the students in an individual counseling setting? This individual counseling curriculum bundle is designed to be used with students in a tier III individual setting. Through engaging activities, crafts, and games, students...
This empathy SEL lesson is an essential component of your character education program. Empathy is one of the 7 essential traits of Thrivers according to author, Michele Borba.Help students reach their maximum and develop their character strengths with this editable...
This empathy curriculum is designed to be used with students in a tier III individual setting. Through engaging activities, crafts, and games, students will learn the perspective taking strategies they need to develop empathy. Each session includes an outline that...
This empathy scoot game is a great way to get students up and moving which is a great way to engage kinesthetic learners! Students will learn to define empathy, identify how others are feeling, and identify examples of empathetic situations....
This empathy activity bundle has everything you need to teach your students how to define empathy and identify empathy strategies for use in everyday situations. Empathy can be a very difficult skill for students to grasp but it is essential...
Teach students self-control, self-esteem, friendship skills, social skills, anger management, and growth mindset with 6 stories and discussion dice. By externalizing their struggles to another child, students can reflect on everyday situations from a new perspective. This helps students practice...
This worksheet is great to do with students after they have a conflict with a classmate or friend! Students learn the meaning of empathy as they see how others' feelings are impacted by their choices. Students also identify their own...
Looking for a super fun and engaging empathy classroom lesson that your students will be talking about for the rest of the day? This fun, low-prep, classroom counseling lesson will keep students engaged and give them the social skills they...