Stop, Breathe & Think (Tools for Peace) promotes mindfulness, meditation, and compassion for middle and high school students and adults. Research has shown that people can develop kindness and compassion by focusing on them through mindfulness and meditation practices. You can cultivate your frame of mind in a very short timespan with simple meditation.
Mood Meter is a tool from Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence that helps students (and everyone else) boost their emotional intelligence (EQ) through developing self-awareness and self-reflection skills. Mood Meter helps students develop the ability to recognize their inner feelings, understand nuances of emotions, and develop a rich emotional vocabulary.
Wisdom: The World of Emotions is an adaptive social–emotional learning game for children aged 4–8. The app, available for iOS and Androiddevices, includes an SEL curriculum, SEL transitions, and SEL activities to support students’ emotional wellbeing. With both virtual and hands-on lesson versions, teachers can provide low-preparation, high-quality SEL instruction to their students, regardless of the classroom setting. Wisdom focuses on CASEL’s five core SEL competencies: self-awareness, social awareness, relationship skills, responsible decision-making, and self-management. As they play Wisdom, children will focus on learning with augmented reality breathing and mindfulness, and identify emotions through facial expressions, body language, voice intonations, trigger events, and physiological reactions. They will also learn to express their feelings using newly acquired vocabulary, enabling them to resolve conflicts, regulate their emotions, and make responsible decisions. Parent prompts let students practice their new skills at home, and SchoolWork for iPad integration lets teachers monitor their students’ progress in real time. Cost: Free app, with options for in-app purchases; schoolwide licenses are also offered.
Breathe, Think, Do (Sesame Street) teaches children to keep calm and carry on by introducing three possible strategies for working through problems. It touches on familiar emotional challenges such as problem solving, self-control, planning, and time on task. Intended for very young children, this simple app gives players different scenarios in which the Blue Monster character needs to regulate his or her emotions using the breathe-think-do technique.
IF. . . The Emotional IQ Game (If You Can) promotes teamwork and collaboration, accentuating how to be in touch with our own feelings and the feelings of those around us. With this app, kids (recommended ages 9-11) learn to listen, make friends, and deal with bullying in an adventure story/game format. IF's motto: "Play Learn Grow: Succeed at school with friends in life!"
BulBul Apps – Free Kids Apps is a collection of stories presented in a library format. BulBul Inc. plans on offering one free story a week to their already extensive library.The stories are mainly for early learners, and are paced to keep the focus on the story. This means story lines are short and simple, but please don’t let that fool you, as most of the stories also displayed a tremendous sense of humor and warmth. The illustrations and animations are bright and cheerful as well as the narration. Both are free from visual and auditory clutter.
Breathing Bubbles app help students identify how they feel and ask them to decide whether that emotion is helping or hurting them Also available for android
Mood Meter is a tool from Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence that helps students (and everyone else) boost their emotional intelligence (EQ) through developing self-awareness and self-reflection skills. Mood Meter helps students develop the ability to recognize their inner feelings, understand nuances of emotions, and develop a rich emotional vocabulary.
Wisdom: The World of Emotions is an adaptive social–emotional learning game for children aged 4–8. The app, available for iOS and Androiddevices, includes an SEL curriculum, SEL transitions, and SEL activities to support students’ emotional wellbeing. With both virtual and hands-on lesson versions, teachers can provide low-preparation, high-quality SEL instruction to their students, regardless of the classroom setting. Wisdom focuses on CASEL’s five core SEL competencies: self-awareness, social awareness, relationship skills, responsible decision-making, and self-management. As they play Wisdom, children will focus on learning with augmented reality breathing and mindfulness, and identify emotions through facial expressions, body language, voice intonations, trigger events, and physiological reactions. They will also learn to express their feelings using newly acquired vocabulary, enabling them to resolve conflicts, regulate their emotions, and make responsible decisions. Parent prompts let students practice their new skills at home, and SchoolWork for iPad integration lets teachers monitor their students’ progress in real time. Cost: Free app, with options for in-app purchases; schoolwide licenses are also offered.
Breathe, Think, Do (Sesame Street) teaches children to keep calm and carry on by introducing three possible strategies for working through problems. It touches on familiar emotional challenges such as problem solving, self-control, planning, and time on task. Intended for very young children, this simple app gives players different scenarios in which the Blue Monster character needs to regulate his or her emotions using the breathe-think-do technique.
IF. . . The Emotional IQ Game (If You Can) promotes teamwork and collaboration, accentuating how to be in touch with our own feelings and the feelings of those around us. With this app, kids (recommended ages 9-11) learn to listen, make friends, and deal with bullying in an adventure story/game format. IF's motto: "Play Learn Grow: Succeed at school with friends in life!"
BulBul Apps – Free Kids Apps is a collection of stories presented in a library format. BulBul Inc. plans on offering one free story a week to their already extensive library.The stories are mainly for early learners, and are paced to keep the focus on the story. This means story lines are short and simple, but please don’t let that fool you, as most of the stories also displayed a tremendous sense of humor and warmth. The illustrations and animations are bright and cheerful as well as the narration. Both are free from visual and auditory clutter.
Breathing Bubbles app help students identify how they feel and ask them to decide whether that emotion is helping or hurting them Also available for android