New Lesson! : My Beautiful City

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New Lesson! : My Beautiful City 〰️

New Lessons Monthly

Updated regularly with new content for you and the artists you teach. Check the blog & Instagram for more frequent postings and inspiration.

Printable Resources

All lessons include printable worksheets, drawing guides, and a formal lesson plan with learning intentions. Easy to share with students, administrators, or subs.

Research Backed

CompassionArt is dedicated to showing you the WHY. Activities are linked to and inspired by childhood development and empathy research. Social Emotional Learning standards are taken from CASEL

Emotional Literacy

Understanding my own feelings is the first step to understanding others. The lessons you find here will focus on these skills:

  • Recognizing and understanding my own emotions

  • Acquiring language to be able to better describe and communicate emotions

  • Exploring personal identity: What makes me, me?

  • Self-compassion, Self-regulation, and coping strategies

Moral Imagination

Imagination is a precursor for empathy and creativity is imagination enacted. With practice, our capacity to empathize with others can grow. Ideas, images, and metaphors in our minds help us to walk a mile in another person’s shoes. The lessons you find here will focus on these skills:

  • Recognize and understand the emotions of others

  • Visualization Strategies & Role-play

  • Promoting open-mindedness and respect for differences

Practicing Kindness

Empathy is a feeling, compassion is an action. Kids learn kindness by comforting, caring, sharing, helping, and cooperating. The lessons you find here will focus on these skills:

  • Building a sense of community through group and community projects

  • Exploring your neighborhood, local issues, and cultural studies.

  • Connecting with local artists and businesses

  • Advocacy & “my voice matters”

Inspiring wonder

We use our senses to experience this beautiful and incredible world. The lessons you find here will focus on these skills:

  • Sensory Explorations- Sight, Taste, Smell, Hearing, Touch

  • Appreciation for Nature, Animals, and Local Landscapes