SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING Activities Digital Game Emotional Regulation SEL

Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to teach emotional regulation, coping skills, emotional awareness, self-control, and social-emotional learning (SEL) skills to children? Roller Coaster of Emotions is a highly engaging emotional regulation workbook and digital game designed to help students understand their feelings, recognize emotional triggers, identify body clues, explore thoughts, develop coping skills, and learn how to navigate life’s emotional ups and downs with confidence.

Using a memorable roller coaster theme, students discover that emotions take us on a journey. Some feelings arrive slowly, some appear suddenly, and some can feel overwhelming. Through interactive worksheets, self-reflection activities, scenario cards, discussion prompts, coping skills exercises, and an engaging digital review game, children learn that while they cannot always control their feelings, they can learn healthy strategies to manage them.

The 5 Roller Coaster Skills:

1. Ticket Booth – What Got Me On This Ride?
2. Students identify emotional triggers, situations, events, and experiences that may have started their emotional roller coaster.
3. The First Drop – What Was I Feeling?
4. Students build emotional awareness by learning to identify, understand, and name their feelings.
5. Twists & Turns – What Was Happening In My Mind?
6. Students explore thoughts, assumptions, worries, self-talk, and flexible thinking skills.
7. Look The Loop – What Happened Next?
8. Students reflect on behaviors, choices, actions, consequences, and emotional responses.
9. Safe Landing – How Did I Get Through It?
10. Students discover coping skills, calming strategies, support systems, and emotional regulation tools that help them manage big feelings successfully.

This Resource Includes:

• Emotional regulation activities and worksheets
• Coping skills activities and worksheets
• Social-emotional learning (SEL) activities
• Emotional awareness handouts
• Emotional regulation teaching pages
• Psychoeducation posters and visual supports
• Feelings body map activities
• Emotional check-in tools
• Roller Coaster Meter worksheets
• Safe Landing Toolbox activities
• Student self-assessment questionnaires
• Scenario cards with discussion prompts
• Choice cards for identifying helpful and unhelpful responses
• Reflection activities and emotional processing worksheets
• Roll & Reflect game
• Group discussion questions
• Emotional regulation planning tools
• Interactive digital game for review and reinforcement

Students Will Learn How To:

• Identify emotional triggers and emotional warning signs
• Develop emotional awareness and emotional literacy skills
• Recognize body clues connected to emotions
• Strengthen emotional regulation and self-control
• Understand the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
• Build coping skills and healthy emotional responses
• Improve flexible thinking and problem-solving skills
• Reflect on choices and consequences
• Increase resilience and confidence when facing challenges
• Develop social-emotional learning (SEL) skills
• Learn healthy ways to manage frustration, disappointment, worry, anger, and anxiety

Whether used in the classroom, counseling office, small groups, behavior support programs, or individual intervention sessions, Roller Coaster of Emotions provides children with practical tools for understanding emotions, managing big feelings, developing coping skills, and making safe emotional landings.

Because emotions take us on a ride… but we can learn how to navigate them.

IMPORTANT TECH NOTE

This resource requires the desktop version of Microsoft PowerPoint (Windows or Mac). It is not compatible with Google Slides, PowerPoint Online, or Chromebooks without PowerPoint installed.