Are you concerned about the effects of social media on the emotional health of your students and looking to develop a responsive classroom by incorporating Social Emotional Learning? It is impossible for our young people to completely avoid social media. It’s a world that most of us teachers or parents didn’t grow up with in our own youth, so it’s challenging for adults to guide students appropriately in this arena. As we know, social media has a significant effect on mental health so it’s important for students to be aware of this and develop healthy ways to use this platform, as it’s not going away any time soon. This resource will help you guide your students the right way. It has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! It includes a structured PowerPoint that guides your class through discussions about social media and the effects it can have on mental health and how to have a positive experience online. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required! On top of this, the PowerPoint text is editable so you can modify the content to suit your students’ needs, should you wish. Also included are bonus graphic organizers which are supplementary to the PowerPoint: they’re not a requirement, but they work as a helpful tool for students to record their thoughts in an aesthetically pleasing way that can then be used for bulletin board displays etc. You will also find a set of discussion task cards to spark conversation and thoughts on social media: these can be printed off for each group of students, or they can be used in whole class discussion, small group, or even for 1:1 counselling. Product includes: • 31 slide PowerPoint • 3 printables of graphic organizers • 4 scenarios to analyze • 24 discussion cards Students will learn: • The true point of social media • What social media is most often used for instead • To reflect on why they use social media • Why and how social media can affect mental health • The effects of comparing themselves to people on social media • The reality of why people really post what they post [VIDEO] • The reasons people obsessing about likes and followers • Why likes and followers create false confidence • What triggers affect them on social media • Alternative ways they can respond to triggers on social media • How they can use their social media to make the world a better place • …and more! I have found teaching this unit is effective in morning meetings with tutor / advisory classes or as whole life skills lessons too, depending on how much time you can allocate. It is such a valuable topic to talk to our students about. Thank you for all you do to make a difference in young peoples’ lives! Great for Social Skills, Life skills and PSHE (Physical, Social, Health Education) lessons.

35 Christmas / Winter Themed Riddles for Lesson Starters / Form Time. Are you looking for some more gripping ways to settle your students really quickly at the start of your lesson? Here are 35 more of the best riddles out there that you can use as lesson starter activities for teens, perfect for the few months running up to this festive season! I have done all the hard work for you to gather and create, some of the best Christmas riddles into one neat PowerPoint that you can pull up whenever you need. These 35 riddles have passed my strict screening process to ensure they provide the right challenge and humour to suit that tough teenage market! Many starters require some preparation and advanced planning, but in those emergencies, having these riddles all neatly packaged in this PowerPoint means no preparation or resources are required - simply pull up this document and have it ready on the board for your students when they enter the room. These create an immediate buzz and settles the class at rapid speed! You can have students jot down their responses on personal whiteboards, on paper, or even have them discussing answers in pairs. There are plenty of riddles to choose from and they vary in challenge, so take the stress out of engaging your class at the start of the lesson, and simply pop these riddles on the board - your students will love them!

Your students will really enjoy being rewarded with these teenage appropriate coupons! They are the same size as standard index cards and come with cool teenage clip art. These work for any class and any subject and they are so simple to use! When you wish to reward positive behaviour of your students, send them to your “reward station” (your index box and reward menu which you can print, laminate and display) and ask them to select which reward they would like to have (I have added a blank set for you to write your own too!). It is then up to them when they choose to cash in their reward. This element of choice works really well with teenagers! This resource is a lifelong tool that can be used over again with every class; you will wonder how you managed without it! So go on, set up your own reward station with this resource and really create a happy buzz in your classroom!

This fun resource contains a whopping 101 inspirational and motivational quotes to encourage, inspire and motivate: perfect for instantly brightening any classroom, corridor, office or even home! There are a vast variety of quotes in this pack enabling you to conveniently change up your wall displays regularly or cover a large footprint of your school. These quotes can also easily be used on a daily basis as a "quote of the day" up on the interactive whiteboard for students to reflect on, discuss their significance and how they can apply them to their every day lives. This 101 pack contains quality quotes from well known inspirational people as well as popular celebrities that young people will be able to relate to and gain inspiration from! This resource is a powerful tool to use in your classrooms, for any age range, and can spark many interesting and inspiring topics and conversations with students and staff alike. ************************************************************************************************************************ • If you choose to download this resource, please take the time to leave a rating - I do really value your feedback and I always look forward to reading what you think about my resources! If you have any questions about this resource or anything else, you can email me at TeachersResourceForce@yahoo.com. • Be the first to know when I upload new resources, discounts and freebies by following my page!

Start your day in a consistently positive and engaging way with these daily themed morning meeting white board 5 minute prompts, perfect for tutor / form time! There is a theme for each day of the week: • “Motivational Mondays” to start the week with a positive quote / thought / discussion. This quote is the same as the ones in the Afternoon Meeting set for continuity and deeper impact, but the prompts are different to allow for reflection on their day. • “True or False Tuesdays” to start the day with a bit of fun and engaging trivia! You can have students put their hands up for true or false and then have a short discussion (or giggle) about some of the random facts they’ll learn throughout the year. Explanations are included! These facts are different from the Afternoon Meeting set, but run along the same theme for continuity. • “Wellness Wednesdays” to focus on wellbeing, both mental and physical, that will help both themselves and demonstrate acts of kindness to others. These are either different or similar to the Afternoon Meeting set, but the prompts are different in order to encourage reflection on their day. • “Thoughtful Thursdays” to develop their thinking skills with some deep, philosophical thoughts and discussions. This can be done as a whole class or discussed in pairs or groups if preferred. These are completely different from the Afternoon Meeting set, but run along the same theme for continuity. • “Funny Fridays” to end the week on a high with a funny joke! Answers are included! These jokes are different from the Afternoon Meeting set, but run along the same theme for continuity. Product includes: • 200 slides in total • Animations to delay text where appropriate (e.g. with joke punchlines!) • Enough daily prompts for an entire year So start your school day on a positive note in just 5 minutes, and develop that consistency, excitement and routine that your students crave so much!

A step by step guide to drawing cartoon characters (heads and faces!). This resource comes with both a printable workbook and PowerPoint, so you can go through it together as a class or students can work independently. So many students have a fear of drawing because they think they’re not good at it. But like many other things, it’s a skill that they can learn! Being able to draw cartoon characters is a fantastic tool to have as you can bring creativity into a range of your lessons, for example: • Expressing mood in reading and writing activities • Illustrations with story writing • ‘Feelings’ topics in foreign languages • Creation stations • Test prep down time • Flip books • Early finishers • Design activities • Art Integration With this resource, you can teach your students how to draw cartoon faces, even if you have no idea yourself! You have a PowerPoint and workbook for your students that guides you step by step how to draw your character, with lots of opportunities for extension work in adding features and even emotions! So if you’re looking for some fun art integration opportunities in your lessons, or just want to take some creative time out for your students to have fun doodling, whip out this resource and watch your students have oodles of doodles of fun! Not to mention, you can always use it to celebrate National Cartoonists Day on 5th May every year ;) Have fun doodling!

If you are moving to remote learning via Google Classroom and are wanting to do check ins with your students to check on their well-being, then these Google Forms are an effective way of doing this. This set contains 4 different attractive Google forms for you to use with your students. Simply post them on Google Classroom to get a check in and take attendance at the same time! The forms included are: • Morning Meeting Google Form Check In: check on your students’ well-being and how they are feeling, and give them an opportunity to share important information with you and have that 1:1 attention if they need it. • Afternoon Meeting Google Form Check In: check on your students’ well-being and progress on the day. You can compare how they’re feeling from the morning, discover what they have learned and enjoyed, and what they’ve found challenging so you can cater to their needs in the future. • Initial Remote Learning Google Form Check In: Gain an understanding on your student’s learning environment at home. In your classroom you can control the learning environment, but once it comes to remote learning that is out of your hands. Learn what kind of device, internet access and study space they have as well as what their initial concerns are. • Interim Remote Learning Google Form Check In: As remote learning is a new playing field for many of us, it’s important to regularly check in on your students to see how they are finding the experience. With this form you will learn what they are finding valuable and gain an insight into what might help improve their remote learning experience in the future. You can still be the caring teacher you love being, even without being able to see your students face to face with these well-being check in forms for remote learning.

20 colorful Smart Response Posters to empower your students to have smart responses when dealing with rude comments, disputes and setting boundaries. It’s frustrating and heartbreaking to watch your students get into arguments and relationship challenges due to the words they use. Words can hurt but it’s tough to always know the best thing to say. You want to empower your students to be able to respond to awkward, rude, uncomfortable situations with calmness, clarity and class, and now you can easily help them do this! This set of classroom school posters contains 20 quotes that help students deal with rude comments, uncomfortable conversations or disputes and for setting healthy boundaries. These promote better classroom community and social, emotional learning. They would also work perfectly in a school counsellor’s office! You can display them in your classroom/school corridors as well as use them to prompt class discussions about why these make powerful responses and how it might affect the outcome. The posters have a bright watercolor theme and are suitable for all age groups and environments. I hope you enjoy using these in your classroom and around your school building to encourage your students to use the right words to empower them in challenging situations.

If you are now exploring the new world of distance learning, chances are you, your students and their parents are all in a bit of a panic right now as everything is so new! At least you can have communication with your students via tools such as Google Classroom, but how are parents and guardians coping with this new home schooling life? You can control the environment in your own classroom, but you cannot control their study space or environment at home, so this is where you need some parental feedback. Now the tables have turned, so it is important to reach out to parents and find out how they’re getting on and what they’re seeing at their end. You can’t see your students right now so it’s harder for you to gauge how they’re doing. Getting parental feedback is paramount to everyone’s success. These Google forms will gain you valuable insight into a range of areas. The forms included are: • Initial Parental Information: gain an overview of what environment their child has for studying at home: in particular what kind of devices, internet access, and study space they have access to. • Schedule Parental Information: gain an overall insight into how much support the parents are realistically able to offer at home, judgment free, and how much digital time they would prefer / are able to offer their child every day. • Interim Parental Feedback: Find out how parents are coping with home schooling and how they feel their children are really doing. Get valuable feedback on specific lessons / activities / topics that are going well, and which are more challenging. With this form you will learn what is working best and gain an insight into what might help their distance learning experiences in the future.

Help your students learn how to study from home with this self lead guide / journal that comes in both printable and digital options for your students. With students needing to study from home, whether that be by choice or due to school closures, many find the challenge of home studying a difficult one to master. There are distractions everywhere and being cooped up indoors all day has its own battles. You can send your students this guide / journal to help them in their home study routine. It guides them through how to plan their schedule and routine, by reverse engineering their day using their assignment deadlines or personal academic goals. This guide also teaches your students how to look after their own well-being while they are stuck at home. It addresses body aches due to excessive desk / computer hunching, too much screen time and how to keep fit and healthy. This resource is ready to use. It comes with a 17 page printable journal for them to fill in, and there is a digital version available too for them to type directly into the document, should they prefer. You can post the journal or send it to your students remotely. I hope this helps your students as they learn the discipline it takes to study from home!

Character Education Tutor Time / Morning Meeting Printable Journal on COURAGE. This is 1 of a 10 part series that includes: resilience, courage, self-confidence, self-respect, tolerance, leadership, respect, empathy, honesty and compassion. I’m so glad you are looking to teach Character Education! Character development and socio-emotional skills are the critical foundation needed for our students to succeed in school and in life. This morning meeting printable journal pack is a powerful and easy way to help strengthen your core curriculum for a responsive classroom. It ensures your students get the opportunity to learn how to develop courage within themselves by repetition and deep discussion. In order to ensure Character Education can be integrated into your busy timetable, this resource has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! This resource is a structured printable journal with 20 powerful quotes and 60 thought provoking writing prompts. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required to teach it. If you choose, you can also download the Courage Digital Whiteboard pack to go with it if you want to encourage group discussion or go paperless instead. Product includes: • 21 pages of Courage Morning Meeting Journal • Mindful Colouring page front cover for the journal • 60 thought provoking writing prompts that go far beyond “what do you think this quote means” and instead encourage deep personal reflection on their own lives and the world. • 20 powerfully themed quotes based solely on Courage. That’s enough for every working day of the month, allowing you to do different Character themed months all year long if you get the whole set of 10 (coming soon). So help build your students’ courage in 5 minutes every day, and encourage them to be all that you know they can be! Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Life skills and PSHCE (Physical, Social, Health, Citizenship Education) lessons.

This is a comprehensive e-course containing over 19 videos as well as a FREE set of exclusive clip art worth £10 that can be used on your own digital resources! You will learn: ✔ How to create teaching resources suitable for a digital classroom including using Google Slides and Google Classroom ✔ How you can make your resources stand out from the crowd ✔ How to make your resources cloud compatible with Google Drive, One Drive and DropBox ✔ Tricks for how to make PowerPoint resources more interactive, ideal for gaming or flip books ✔ How to use animations and triggers in PowerPoint to create task cards, quizzes and other interactive games ✔ How to create QR codes for kinaesthetic and interactive learning ✔ Practical steps on how to share and sell your digital resources ✔ How to secure clip art to enable it to be used interactively ✔ Downloadable templates of PowerPoint games that you can play with and learn from ✔ …and more! Plus, I’m always at the end of an email if you ever have any questions about any of the lessons or want further 1:1 support. It’s easy to access - simply follow the instructions in the download and then I’ll add you to the course personally as fast as humanly possible! I hope you find this e-course helpful in your journey to creating unique, secure and engaging digital resources!

Are you looking for some unique teen activities for Women’s History month? Women have invented some incredible things to make our world a better place, but so many of these are unknown! This resource highlights some of our amazing women inventors, to show our young students that anyone can achieve great things, regardless of gender. There are 2 parts to the resource: a PowerPoint presentation with information to teach them about the inventors and what inspired them to invent their products. The second part comes with worksheets that students can use to summarise their learning and reflect on the achievements of these women. Alternatively, students could also do their own research to complete these sheets for homework. These would look great on a display board or stapled into a booklet for students to keep. So go on, inspire your girls and educate your young boys on the power of women!

These worksheets are a fun Agony Aunt / Uncle style that allows your students to demonstrate what they have learnt in a fun and relatable way. They also provide you with great feedback to assess student understanding. You can use these in English lessons to get students to reflect on characters in any book. Students can consider the struggles the characters face, whilst providing the opportunity to offer them advice too. These would also work well when teaching Life Skills topics such as Cyber Bullying or Stress Management. Once they have learnt the skills you have taught them, they can make up scenarios and offer appropriate advice as an Agony Aunt / Uncle in a magazine! They could even take it in turns to write up scenarios for their peers and challenge one another to offer advice on how to deal with the problem. This will work with so many different scenarios and skills! To personalise their own column, they have the opportunity to be creative and draw their own caricature of themselves as an Agony Aunt / Uncle! *UPDATE* Now also includes: • Q&A boxes without lines • Whole page for one Q&A to allow for more detail • An editable document for students to type onto the resource Your students will love this resource and really feel like a pro sharing their newly learned expertise in their own magazine column!

Halloween themed colouring pages! These “Halloween” doodle colouring pages are a relaxing and fun resource for your students to colour and maybe even decorate the classroom with, on Halloween! You’d be amazed at the wonders it can do for young people’s well-being just by giving students some time to colour for a while – no matter what their age, it is something that is very therapeutic and inspiring. There are 5 different colouring pages to choose from. Students can just shade in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also white space available for students to add their own doodles too if they choose! So give your students the opportunity to relax and have fun decorating their classroom or lockers etc. with these unique Halloween colouring pages for teens!

Autumn Themed Writing Paper: wide and tight lines A fun 32 paged pack of Autumn themed writing paper pack, ideal for any themed creative writing activities. These come in both colour and black line and in wide and tight lines making them suitable for a range of ages and abilities. I hope your students enjoy using this Autumn themed paper this season!

How to turn someone into a zombie in Photoshop: easy to follow PowerPoint tutorial! This tutorial is a fun and simple introduction into how to use Photoshop where students can turn themselves or a celebrity of their choice into a zombie - perfect for Halloween themed activities, posters, cards and party decorations! You can even learn how to turn yourself into a zombie too, great for personalising teaching resources and wall displays - your students will love it!

Thankful Quotes Colouring Pages: fun, inspiring and relaxing for teens! These inspiring ‘thankful’ colouring pages on quotes about being grateful, are a relaxing and fun resource for your students to colour and maybe even decorate the classroom with on “Thanksgiving” or whenever they want to remember to be grateful. You’d be amazed at the wonders it can do for well-being just by giving students some time to colour for a while – no matter what their age, it is something that is very therapeutic and inspiring. There are 5 different colouring pages to choose from. Students can just shade in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also white space available for students to add their own doodles too if they choose! So give your students the opportunity to relax and have fun decorating their classroom or lockers etc. with these unique Thanksgiving positive quotes colouring pages for teens!

Remembrance Day: Presentation and Activities for teens! This resource includes a high quality PowerPoint presentation which can be delivered to your class/tutor group or in an assembly. There is also an activities pack which contains some no-prep required printable worksheets, ideal for teenage students to do during tutor time or in Citizenship lessons. These activities give students the opportunity to reflect on their knowledge about Remembrance Day, consider important key words to do with the day in the form of a word search and anagrams, and also get creative in designing poppy merchandise to raise more money for the Royal British Legion.

End of the Year Positive Mindset Quotes: Fun and Relaxing Colouring Pages These “End of the Year” doodle colouring pages are a wonderfully relaxing and fun resource for your students to help calm and relax them during the crazy end of year period! They work great for morning work or early finishers! The end of the year is when students are hyper and us teachers are just exhausted! You’d be amazed at the wonders it can do just by giving students some time to wind down and relax by colouring in – no matter what their age - it is something that is very therapeutic. There’s also a special colouring page for teachers to keep you smiling and calm too :) There are 4 different colouring pages to choose from (plus an extra one US equivalent, and one just for teachers, so 6 in total!) Students can just colour in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also plenty of white space available for students to add their own doodles too! So help keep calm and order in a really fun way at the end of the year, and give your students the opportunity to just relax, and enjoy themselves – they deserve it and so do YOU!