Middle School

Kimochis® are a great tool to teach kids emotional literacy. Get a bag of Kimochis, put them in a bowl, and pick 1-2 every night at dinner to discuss. Website has free resources.

Flexible thinking is a skill that lets kids look at situations in different ways and find solutions to new problems.

Article on Healthline by Rebecca Joy Stanborough, MFA about the pros and cons of concrete thinking. 

Watch Disney's movie Inside Out to teach kids about emotions. Website includes activities to download.

Teach children how to identify and label their emotions by first finding the primary, then refining their emotion to the secondary and tertiary definitions. 

Take a test to measure your emotional intelligence by Greater Good Berkeley Edu.

Project Zero is to understand and enhance learning, thinking and creativity for individuals and groups in the arts and other disciplines.

A measure used to identify emotional regulation issues.

Building Thinking Skills® kits and workbooks for Toddlers - 12th grade is a best-selling thinkings skills program, developmentally sequenced for buidling critical thinkings skills. 

Rate your state and trait styles when regulating emotions. This quiz is a good tool for learning about different styles of emotion regulation.