If you are a teacher, counsellor, peer helper, or group leader, this book designed for all ages, is for you. Instill motivation in your group through understanding, trust and excitement. Create interest in your classroom through involvement, motivation and interaction. Enhance orientation sessions and increase effectivenes in "getting to know you" activities with the energizers and icebreakers presented in this book.

Energizers and Icebreakers

Education & Teaching

ED.D.

Elizabeth S. Foster-Harrison

Schools & Teaching

Youthlight

These structured, large-group activities can provide the core for your developmental guidance program. Integrate these activities into your affective education curriculum or draw upon them when specific guidance situations arise.

Classroom Guidance Activities: A Sourcebook for Elementary Counselors

Joe Wittmer

Diane W. Thompson

& Larry C. Loesch

Lessons are designed to teach the skills needed for success in seven areas: Classroom Skills, Interpersonal Relationships/Friendships, Identifying and Expressing Feelings, Relieving Stress, MakingDecisions, Replacement Skills for Aggression, and Self-Acceptance. The curriculum is built around modeling the skills, role playing the skill with feedback, and gener

Getting to Know You!: A Social Skills Curriculum for Grades 1-3

Dennis Hanken & Judy Kennedy

Lessons are designed to teach the skills needed for success in seven areas: Classroom Skills, Interpersonal Relationships/Friendships, Identifying and Expressing Feelings, Relieving Stress, Making Decisions, Replacement Skills for Aggression, and Self-Acceptance. The curriculum is built around the recommended best practices of establishing the need, modeling the skills, role playing the skill with feedback, and generalizing the skill through easy-to-teach, uniform format activities. Reproducible masters are provided to enhance many of the 68 lessons. (68 lessons)

Getting to Know You!: A Social Skills Curriculum for Grades 4-5

Starting School

Laura Weitzman

Susan Benavides

& Cheryl McLaughlin

Lively Lessons: For Classroom Sessions is like a breath of fresh air for classroom guidance. Each of the 21 lessons provides valuable material on the most-wanted classroom-guidance topics. The topics include: Positive Attitude, Self-Esteem, Kindness and Friendship, Feelings, Study Skills, Stress, Decision-Making, Conflict-Resolution, Career Awareness, and Drugs and Alcohol. 
Each topic includes between one and five lessons with an original story which can be read or told to the students, related questions for follow-up discussions, and one or more relevant activities. 
Many of the lessons use puppets, raps, songs, or other props to make them more interesting to the listeners. Lively Lessons for Classroom Sessions will hold your students’ interest and make teaching classroom guidance an enjoyable experience. 
Appropriate for students in grades 2-5

Lively Lessons for Classroom Sessions

Rosanne Sheritz Sartori

Toby, the Terrific Test-Taking Toucan

Darlene Pulliam

A complete program for developing self-esteem in young children. The development of self-esteem has been a primary topic in the past, is now in the present, and will be in the future because it is a recognized fact that self-esteem is the foundation needed for the development of beneficial life skills. 
The Self-Esteem Garden includes 10 lessons based on 12 premises vital to the evolution of positive self-esteem. Each lesson has: 
An overview which gives the facilitator a complete description of what the children will gain from the presentation. 
Pre-Presentation Information, an in-service like presentation which explains the premises covered in the lesson and a detailed explanation of each as they relate to self-esteem. 
A step-by-step description of the lesson’s presentation to the children. 
The program relates everything to a garden and each child completes an individual booklet which is added to each session. The Self-Esteem Garden Analogy shows readers that: 
Good Soil is important to the growth of a garden as positive and supportive people are important to children’s growth 
Garden Tools are necessary to cultivate a garden as behavioral, cognitive, verbal, and emotional skills are necessary for children’s growth 
Flowers are a positive result of a good garden, and positive qualities, attributes and skills are a positive result of good self-esteem 
Fences are necessary to keep a garden safe from predators, and boundaries are necessary to protect children’s self-esteem and keep them from becoming emotionally detached, aggressive, or withdrawn 
Weeds must be removed from a garden because they damage the garden, and negative thoughts must be removed from the child’s thinking because they damage the child’s perception of his/her self-esteem 
Gardeners are the caretakers of a garden as children are the caretakers of their self-esteem 
This motivating, all-inclusive program will give you the tools you need to help children develop positive self-esteem, including a pre- and post-program evaluation. 
Includes a 47-page student workbook. 
Appropriate for children ages 7-11 or grades 2-5 
Suitable for use in: Individual counseling, small-group counseling, classroom guidance

The Self-Esteem Garden

Karen Hammond & Dave Deardorff

Froggy’s back with more of the stories and activities that have made this an enormously popular series for young children. In this new book, the ever-mischievous Froggy learns lessons on: consideration, feelings, arguing and fighting, sharing, bossiness, and playing too roughly. Each topic can be presented either as a story or puppet play and followed through with discussion questions and a variety of activities. Educators know that good social skills greatly improve a child’s chances for success in both peer relationships and academics. The Froggy & Friends Series provides appropriate material for the development of these social skills for the young student. Each unit includes: An introduction that explains the purpose of the unit, the materials needed, and directions for the follow-up activity sheets; lesson presentation directions; an original story; a puppet show presentation; discussion questions; and reproducible activity sheets. Each topic includes material for more than one session. However, the topic may be completed in one session by not using all of the follow-up activities. Appropriate for students in grades K-3 Suitable for use in: Individual counseling, small-group counseling, classroom guidance

More Froggy & Friends

Kathie Guild

ACTivities For Group Work With School-Age Children is a compilation of innovative and motivating sessions for children. Each activity teaches children to better understand themselves and their behaviors. Included are activities that: 
• promote the expression of feelings 
• help children cope 
• enhance self-esteem 
• develop and enhance social skills 
• enhance group cohesion, cooperation, and teamwork 
In addition, the book includes an extensive section on the meaning of Activity Centered Therapy (ACT) and guidelines for making the presentation of these activities as beneficial as possible. The easy-to-read charts help the facilitator present the activities at the appropriate time during the group process. 
Each activity includes explicit directions, materials needed, and, if required, reproducible activity sheets. These interesting titles and interactive games will attract and keep children’s attention as they participate in the learning skills that are necessary for a well-rounded life. 
Appropriate for children ages 7-11 or grades 2-5 
Suitable for small-group counseling. Adaptable for classroom guidance

ACTivities for Group Work with School-Age Children

Susan Ciardiello

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