Do you struggle to find age-appropriate activities that blend Character Education with Social Emotional Learning? This comprehensive character education program helps students build strong character, develop essential social-emotional skills, and foster a positive classroom environment.

❤ Designed to align with Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) frameworks, this resource provides engaging lessons reinforcing key character traits while supporting students’ self-awareness, self-management, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.

This year-long curriculum will help you teach important life skills such as caring about other people, honesty, responsibility, respect, and many other traits that make for an upstanding citizen.

This bundle includes 10 complete units with print and digital activities to use anytime throughout the year. You can teach each character trait monthly or pick and choose lessons to teach throughout the year!

This bundle includes:

This bundle includes 10 complete character education units, each focusing on an essential character trait with over 150+ pages of engaging, ready-to-use activities that help students internalize and apply these traits in real-world situations.

Available in print and digital (Google Slides) formats, this resource offers flexibility—you can teach one trait per month or pick and choose lessons to integrate throughout the year, making it easy to fit into any schedule!

✅ 10 Comprehensive Character Education Units

• Courage – Developing confidence and overcoming challenges
• Self-Discipline – Managing emotions and making responsible choices
• Perseverance – Building resilience and a growth mindset
• Respect – Encouraging empathy and positive interactions
• Responsibility – Teaching accountability and ownership of actions
• Integrity – Promoting honesty and ethical decision-making
• Tolerance – Understanding and appreciating differences
• Good Judgment – Strengthening critical thinking and decision-making skills
• Good Citizenship – Encouraging leadership and community involvement
• Kindness – Fostering compassion and positive relationships

Each unit includes:

• a classroom poster of the character trait
• an introduction of the character trait with practice pages
• whole group, partner, and independent activities
• a mentor text with comprehension questions
• extension activities through a choice board
• a printable and digital Google Slides option
• answer keys

⭐ The goals are clearly stated, which helps teachers establish the expectations for each lesson and what students can hope to learn. The extension activities give teachers additional opportunities to develop each skill further.

✅ Why This Resource is Perfect for SEL Programs:

• Aligns with CASEL’s Core SEL Competencies – Supports self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.
• Flexible Print & Digital Versions – Easily assign lessons in Google Slides™ or print activities for whole-group, small-group, or independent learning.
• Engaging & Interactive – Lessons include discussions, writing prompts, real-world applications, reflection activities, and more!
• Ideal for Any Setting – Use as a standalone character education program or seamlessly integrate into your SEL curriculum for morning meetings, advisory periods, or classroom discussions.

✅ How Does This Resource Align with CASEL’s Five Core SEL Competencies?

Self-awareness (Recognizing emotions, values, and strengths)

• Integrity – Understanding and standing by personal values
• Self-Discipline – Recognizing personal strengths and areas for growth
• Courage – Identifying fears and building confidence

Self-management (Regulating emotions, behaviors, and setting goals)

• Self-Discipline – Practicing self-control and goal-setting
• Perseverance – Managing frustration and working through challenges
• Responsibility – Holding oneself accountable for actions

Social Awareness (Empathy, respect, and understanding diverse perspectives)

• Respect – Understanding and valuing others’ perspectives
• Tolerance – Appreciating and accepting differences
• Kindness – Demonstrating empathy and compassion

Relationship Skills (Effective communication, teamwork, and conflict resolution)

• Kindness – Building positive interactions with others
• Respect – Practicing active listening and understanding others
• Good Citizen – Collaborating and contributing to a community

Responsible Decision-Making (Ethical choices and evaluating consequences)

• Good Judgment – Making thoughtful and ethical choices
• Integrity – Choosing to do the right thing even when it’s difficult
• Responsibility – Evaluating actions and their impact on others

✅ Character Traits Aligned with SEL Competencies

Integrity: Self-Awareness + Responsible Decision-Making

Self Discipline: Self-Awareness + Self-Management

Courage: Self-Awareness

Perseverance: Self-Management

Responsibility: Self-Management + Responsible Decision-Making

Respect: Social Awareness + Relationship Skills

Tolerance: Social Awareness

Kindness: Social Awareness + Relationship Skills

Good Citizen: Relationship Skills

Good Judgment: Responsible Decision-Making

✅ Why This Resource is Helpful

In today’s world, students are constantly influenced by external factors, from social media to peer pressure. This year-long character education curriculum, aligned with the SEL framework, helps students develop essential life skills by reinforcing self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making—the core CASEL SEL competencies.

Through engaging lessons and activities, students gain the knowledge and practice to make ethical choices, manage emotions, build positive relationships, and become responsible citizens.

This curriculum prepares students for real-world challenges by fostering good character and social-emotional growth. It also creates a more respectful and supportive classroom environment where students learn to interact positively with peers and teachers.

Since students spend a significant portion of their time in school, it is the perfect setting to instill lifelong moral values and shape them into thoughtful, empathetic individuals.

✅ Students Will Learn How To:

• practice courage despite fear or difficulty
• sustain self-discipline through control of their actions
• persevere by overcoming obstacles
• show respect to others
• develop a sense of responsibility
• master the importance of integrity
• be tolerant of others’ differences
• strengthen decision-making skills through good judgment
• be a good citizen while making a positive impact in their community
• treat others with kindness

✅ These Activities Are Perfect For:

• Elementary & Upper Elementary Classrooms (Grades 3-5)
• Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Instruction
• Character Education Programs
• Morning Meetings & Class Discussions
• Independent Desk Work
• Early Finisher Activities
• Counselor & Intervention Groups
• Emergency Sub Plans

Help your students develop strong character and essential SEL skills with this engaging and impactful resource!

Teachers like you said…

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is fantastic! I wish I’d found it sooner. It’s been great targeting new traits during our morning meetings. The activities are really digging deep into their little minds. Great progress in such a short amount of time! -Ariane O.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I searched everywhere but couldn’t quite find exactly what I was looking for — until I came across this resource!! This is EVERYTHING I wanted to implement with my students, and I absolutely love the student pages that go with each traits. THANK YOU! -Heather S.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I love this resource! We complete the majority of the activities together and it allows for some great discussions. My favorite lessons are the ones that have the “Choice” activities. My students choose the activities they want to do independently and it gives me a great way to assess what they have learned about the topic. -Alisha W.

In this one convenient bundle, you can…

• have ready-to-go character education activities that align with SEL competencies
• choose from over 150 pages of activities to help your students succeed in the real world
• use these pre-made activities as sub plans when you need to take a day (or week) off!
• easily differentiate instruction with the choice boards included
• print and go or assign digitally – provides everything you need to teach 10 character trait units throughout the year!

By purchasing this bundle, you will save 20% off the price. If you choose to purchase each unit individually, you will spend a total of $40.00. Bundle and Save!