Friends Lesson Plan: Social Emotional Learning
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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP Jr. topic Friends, and supports an understanding of the importance and meaning of friendship. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.
Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Ask students:
- What do you enjoy most about your friends?
- How are you alike and different from your friends?
Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE
- Play the Friends movie.
- Click the pause button each time a question appears in Annie’s Notebook and discuss it as a class. Then play to see how Annie answers it.
TIP: The pause button turns red to remind you to pause.
Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS
Students take the Easy Quiz or Hard Quiz, demonstrating what they learned about the topic while applying essential literacy skills.
Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND
Students express what they learned about friends while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student or grade-level needs.
- Draw About It: Draw what you like to do with your friends.
- Activity: Make a card that says something nice to a friend.
- Talk About It: Answer questions about friends.
- Write About It: Write about a time you were upset with a friend, and how you solved the problem.
More to Explore
Feelings Unit: Continue to build understanding around emotions by exploring more BrainPOP Jr. topics.
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