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    FeaturedSELTeachersTools and Resources

SEL & Beyond: Self-Awareness HeART Project Strategy

August 25, 2020
Little boy drawing a heart

HeART PROJECT

Grades K–12
Competencies addressed: Self-Awareness – Relationship Skills

Heart drawing with different colored sections representing valued people/things

Purpose

Support students to identify what they love and value. Create connections with classmates and teachers by sharing their finished project. This is a quick and easy way for students to feel seen and heard. 

Preparation

  • Provide students with heart handout, cut out or with instructions to draw their own.
  • For online instruction, provide students with a heart outline digitally.

Procedure

  • Tell students that they can draw or write what they love and value. 
  • Teacher can show an example of their completed heart project. 
  • Students share their hearts with classmates in pairs.

SEL Sentence Frames

*These are suggested sentence frames. Feel free to differentiate for your students’ language proficiency levels.

Grades K–2

“I love _________.”

“What makes me happy is __________.”

Grades 3–5

“I value _____________.”

“What matters to me is _______.”

Grades 6–12 

“I value ___________ because ____________.”

“I love _____________ because____________.”

“___________ is important to me because _______________.”

“I chose _____________ because _______________________.”

“I care about ___________ because _____________________.”

Student Reflection

How did you feel doing this activity?

What did you like about this activity?

What did you learn about a classmate?

Opportunities for Differentiation

Support English Language Learners by allowing them to describe or label the heart in their first language.

Challenge students by using more specific vocabulary. 

Expand the lesson by having students find classmates with similarities in their hearts.

Gamify the lesson by playing “Whose heart is this?” 

Integrate the arts by having students act out the things that they love.

Adapt to online format by creating  and sharing hearts digitally.

Teachers’ Lounge

  • This has the potential to be a high vulnerability activity; allow students the freedom to pass on sharing verbally. 
  • Celebrate the students’ ability to share, and give specific and meaningful feedback about what they’ve created.

See also:

Other SEL strategies, including:

  • “Name That Emotion” Strategy
  • Personal Timeline Strategy
  • Social Awareness “Perspective Detective” Strategy

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  • SEL & Beyond: Social Awareness
  • SEL & Beyond: Relationship Skills
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About the Authors

Trisha DiFazio

Trisha DiFazio is an author, education consultant, and former adjunct professor in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California (USC). She is passionate about empowering teachers and students around Social and Emotional Learning, Cultural Responsiveness, and Mindfulness.

 

 

 

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Allison Roeser, Master of Health Science (MHS) and Professional Certified Coach (PCC), has almost two decades of experience working with leaders in education, child welfare, and social change. As an avid learner of mindfulness practices, Allison has seen firsthand the value of integrating self-awareness into professional and personal development.

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