Home
Docs
- VariQuest
Social
- Social
- Facebook Page - VariQuest
- Twitter - All Tweets
Videos
- Youtube - All Videos
Blogs
- VariQuest Blog

[Lesson Plan] Social-Emotional Learning for Elementary Students: Belonging

September 27, 2022 VariQuest Visual and Kinesthetic Learning Suite

social-emotional lesson plan on belonging

What is a sense of community? The feeling of belonging and mattering to a group.

Connection is something we all want. Feeling connected to people, to places, and to things feels important - but perhaps more important is feeling like you're personally part of a bigger picture. In the classroom, it's not just making friends, it's connecting the entire group together. In the school, it's not just connecting the grade levels together, but connecting the older kids with the younger kids, encouraging role models and leadership.

When students feel connected to their class and their school, they feel a sense of safety and belonging when entering the building. When students are genuinely connected to their teachers, there is mutual trust and respect.

In this bonus installment of our social-emotional learning unit series, we spark discussion among students about how we can all be more inclusive, and make everyone feel like they belong.

How Can I Improve Teacher Morale & Motivation?

At the beginning of the school year, educators might be feeling excited, hopeful, stressed, or mayb...

Making Teachers' Lives Easier - These Tools Can Help

Finding teachers. Keeping teachers. Supporting teachers. Inspiring teachers. Helping teachers. Whe...

Engage Every Learner.®

[Lesson Plan] Social-Emotional Learning for Elementary Students: Belonging

Previous Article

Next Article

[Lesson Plan] Social-Emotional Learning for Elementary Students: Belonging

Previous Article

Next Article

Most Recent Articles

In the ever-evolving education landscape, innovation is key to engaging students and facilitating effective learning experiences. That's why VariQuest presents the Cutout Maker 1800...

The latest addition to the VariQuest suite of solutions provides endless options for creating on-the-spot school-wide communication, recognition, and student engagement...

Teacher Appreciation Week 2024 is May 6th-10th and while we at VariQuest appreciate teachers every day, many stores and restaurants give special recognition and discounts to our nation's...

Trees are good for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and among many other environmentally-beneficial qualities, they are important to many cultures in bringing people together....

At a time when our world and nation are struggling with division and conflicting ideology - empathy and compassion are important concepts to teach our future generations, so they can...

Circumference, diameter, radius, apple, cherry, rhubarb?! "Pi Day" is celebrated annually on March 14th (Get it - 3.14?!) and we're here to help you celebrate! According to piday.org,...

According to Neil Fleming's popular "VARK" model of learning types/styles, there are 4 main learning styles - including visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic. Other models...

Real-world-application learning is where learning takes real flight! We're so proud when our students master a concept, but even more proud when they can apply it to their everyday lives....

Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, has been celebrated for thousands of years. It is one of the most important holidays widely celebrated in many Asian countries and...

While everyone has different holiday traditions and celebrates this time of year in different ways - we can all agree that spreading kindness and joy is one of the best! We've put...

We ask Google, we ask Alexa, we ask Siri...but what questions and answers do we need to find, ourselves? The skill of writing a research paper doesn't just develop writing skills or...

Research-writing has changed a lot over the years, and with the prominence of artificial intelligence, those changes are only going to continue. As students learn the important skill of...

There are so many questions when it comes to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it will affect humankind in the future. At its best, it can help us learn and understand even more about...

When the season of fall arrives, you're celebrating being done with the first few weeks of the school year, and outside the colors of the environment are changing. What better way to...

Trying to figure out how to best spend your Career & Technical Education funding - or use other funding for career & technical education programs? Let's take a look at some options.

Sensory paths are not only fun for elementary education because they help get the wiggles out, but they help with learning too! At VariQuest®, we feel passionately about visual and...

In the 1960s, The Beach Boys scored a hit with the song, Be True to Your School about being proud of the school you go to and defending it to others. Are you proud of the school you...

We're deep into the back-to-school season, which means you're making your plans for the year - and as we do every spring and fall, we're bringing you a brand new expansion pack for your...

In this midst of the back-to-school shopping season, teachers, parents, and students alike are purchasing tools they will need to be successful in the coming school year. And using...

You can't escape reading about Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancements and how they are changing the world every day. From self-driving cars to robotics to digital assistants and...