Author:
Taylor
Subject:
Health Education, Social Science
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Level:
Upper Elementary
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    English
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    Zones of Regulation Lesson Using Keynote

    Zones of Regulation Lesson Using Keynote

    Overview

    This lesson is a social emotional learning lesson and was created by Taylor Arney, school psychologist. This lesson covers the Zones of Regulation framework and is to be used in conjunction with Apple's Keynote application.  The lesson covers each of the 4 zones in the Zones of Regulation Framework, and then gives students the creative freedom to create their own visuals for each of the four zones (red,blue, green, and yellow).

    The image used for this lesson comes from Nik at Unsplash!

    Summary

    The resource provided is to help school psychologists understand the social emotional learning framework Zones of Regulation. 

    This is a lesson for school psychologists to teach in small groups or one to one with a student. This lesson is about Zones of Regluation, which is a framework used in schools to help students identify and regulate their own emotions.

    Students will need approximately one hour (can be broken up over class periods) to complete this proect.

    This can be done in any format (synchronous, asynchronous, face-to-face, virtual, etc) depending on what works for the school psychologist and the student(s).

    This lesson was created by Taylor Arney.

    Photo by Nik on Unsplash.

    Step 1 - Goals and Outcomes

    Step 1 Goals and Outcomes

     

    Learning Intentions:

    • Students will learn the four colors/zones of the Zones of Regulation framework.
    • Students will learn which emotions fall under which zone. 

    Success Criteria:

    • Students will be able to identify the four Zones of Regulation by color and by emotions that fall under each color.
    • Students will be able to understand how to identify their own emotions (i.e. which zone they are in).

     

    Step 2 - Planning Instruction

    Step 2 Planning Instruction

    Student Background Knowledge

    In this section, include how you will activate student background knowledge. You may include content standards that should already be mastered, or you can use the following sentence starter to help you describe what students need to know or be able to do:

    • Prior to this lesson, students will need to have an understanding of emotions. It is important to go over the names of common emotions as well as how that emotion may present itself (i.e., yelling when angry, sweating when anxious, crying when sad).
    • I often ask students to name emotions for me and give an example of a time they felt that emotion. I also ask follow up questions such as "what did that emotion feel like in your body?" I give students examples such as "when I am sick I feel tired and my tummy might hurt. I feel like I don't have a lot of energy. Has anyone else every felt that way?"

    Strategies for Diverse Learners

    This can be done as a conversation, or with visuals. I find that visuals are often helpful for many of my students with disabilities. Visuals can be found here.

    Step 3 - Instruction

    Step 3 Instruction

    • I begin the lesson by sharing with students that we will be talking about our feelings. I tell them there is a way we can identify what we feel and make choices to help ourselves feel better and that this framework is called Zones of Regulation. I then pull up these PDF documents on the smart board. 
    • We talk about each zone and which emotions fall under each of the zones. I also clarify any emotions they are unsure of or that I think they may be confused about. 
    • After looking at all of the zones, we watch several short video clips in a row of Disney//Pixar movies.
    • After each clip I ask students to identify which character was in which zone. For example I show a clip from Finding Nemo where Dory is very happy and singing "just keep swimming." This is my example of the green zone. There is a clip for each zone and several of the characters move through more than one zone during the clip (a document is attached with this lesson plan).
    • After this I will hand each student a ZoR worksheet for them to complete just to be sure they understand the content.

     

    Step 4 - Assessments

    Step 4 Assessments

    Students are asked to show me what they have learned by creating a slideshow in Keynote. They are asked to make a slide of each of the four zones including color, names of emotions, and pictures of emotions that fall under that zone. I allow them to choose pictures to show me some of the emotions such as a picture of a crying child for blue zone, or a picture of someone smiling to show green zone. An example of what I am looking for is attached below. I show students this example and then ask them to be creative with their own slides. They can use picutes from their favorite shows/movies as long as they are school appropriate.