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💚 2nd Grade · Health & SELCASEL: Social awarenessUnit 5: Kindness & community

Walking in someone’s shoes

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🎯 Objective: Students imagine how others feel.

Lesson outline

  1. Read aloud.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Draw.
  4. Exit: how did the character feel?

Lesson 1 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

CASEL: Social awareness

National Health Education Standards + CASEL SEL competencies (grade band K–2)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Show empathy and kindness
  • Appreciate differences

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 Read-aloud stories😀 Emotions dice⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Kindness & community”

  1. Walking in someone’s shoes
  2. Kindness challenge
  3. We are all different

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