Zones of Regulation Activity Ideas
Zones of Regulation Activity Ideas
Zones of Regulation Activity Ideas
Session Date: Thursday October 12, 2017 Topic: Class 1 -Creating Wall Posters of the Zones
Location: Classroom
Workshop Goal: Practicing categorizing the emotions we are feeling by labeling them with the
zone we are in, and the name of the emotion.
Objective: Providing students the opportunity to learn about the different Zones of Regulation
and the emotions in each Zone to utilize in their lives.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice the skills.
Materials Needed:
● “Theo’s Mood” by Maryann Cocca-Leffler
● Zones Package that includes:
○ Yellow Construction Paper cut in the shape of a diamond.
○ Blue Construction Paper cut in the shape of a hexagon.
○ Green Construction Paper cut in the shape of a circle.
○ Red Construction Paper cut in the shape of a octagon.
○ All Zone emotions cut out.
● Glue
● Pencil
● Lesson 1 Document
● Zone Emotion Definition Document
Workshop Structure:
Session Date: Monday October 16, 2017 Topic: Class 2 -Zones Bingo
Location: Classroom
Workshop Goal: Practicing categorizing the emotions we are feeling by labeling them with the
zone we are in, and the name of the emotion through a verbal listening interactive activity.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive
ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice their skills.
Materials Needed:
● Zones of Regulation Bingo Sheets
● Bingo Chips 4 Zones Colours)
● 1 Blue Construction Paper Poster Size
● 1 Red Construction Paper Poster Size
● 1 Yellow Construction Paper Poster Size
● 1 Green Construction Paper Poster Size
● All Zones Emotions cut out.
● Store cut out Zone Emotions in plastic bag.
● Scotch Tape
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Review points below:
○ What are the 4 Zones?
Session Date: Thursday October 19, 2017 Topic: Class 3 -Learning the Zones Check In
Location: Gym
Workshop Goal: Students will be able to identify the zone different emotions belong to by
using their listening skills.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Students will use their non-verbal skills to demonstrate their understanding of
each definition of the different emotions.
Materials Needed:
● Zone Emotions Definitions Document
● Zones of Regulation Poster Signs
● Pre-Cut Zone Emotion Definitions
● Masking Tape
● Ziploc Bag (place zone emotion definitions into bag)
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Review points below:
○ What are the 4 Zones?
Session Date: Monday October 23, 2017 Topic: Class 4 -Expected and Unexpected
Behaviours & Our Behaviour Impacts the
Feelings of Those Around Us
Location: Classroom
Workshop Goal: Students learn about labeling behaviours as expected or unexpected and
understand how their behaviour can impact those around them.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive
ways.
Knowledge Students will learns ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice the skills.
Materials Needed:
● Our Behaviour Impacts the Feelings of Those Around Us Document
● 2 Chart Paper
● Black, Green & Red Permanent Markers
● “Miss Nelson is Missing” by Harry Allard
● Ruler
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Review points below:
○ Expected behaviours are
behaviours that give people
around you good or
comfortable thoughts about
you.(Write this down on chart
paper).
○ Unexpected behaviours are
behaviours that give people
uncomfortable thoughts about
you. (Write this down on chart
paper).
Session Date: Thursday October 26, 2017 Topic: Class 5- Good Thoughts vs. Uncomfortable
Thoughts
Location: Classroom
Workshop Goal: To learn about good and uncomfortable thoughts, and labeling the different
types of thoughts that occur as good or uncomfortable thoughts.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive
ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice their skills.
Materials Needed:
● Good Thoughts vs. Uncomfortable Thoughts Discussion Document
● Good Thoughts vs. Uncomfortable Thoughts Activity Document
● Orange Popsicle Stick (1 per Student)
● Purple Popsicle Stick (1 per Student)
● Styrofoam Cup (1 per Student)
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Review points below: Good Thoughts vs. Uncomfortable Thoughts
○ Good Thoughts Discussion Document
○ Uncomfortable Thoughts
Session Date: Monday October 30, 2017 Topic: Class 6 -The Zones in Video
Location: Classroom
Workshop Goal: Students will have the opportunity to practice identifying expected and
unexpected behaviours while watching clips from Inside Out & participate in a role-play
scenario.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive
ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice their skills.
Materials Needed:
● Movie “Inside Out”
● Expected vs. Unexpected Behaviour Discussion Document
● Expected vs. Unexpected Behaviour Examples Document
● “Inside Out” Clips Document
● Expected Signs (1 per Student)
● Unexpected Signs (1 per Student)
● Zones Role-Play Document
● Pre-Highlight Person 1-6’s lines for both inappropriate and appropriate language scene
● Pre-cut and staple scenario package for each student.
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Review points below: Expected vs. Unexpected Behaviour
○ Expected Behaviours Discussion Document
○ Unexpected Behaviours
Expected vs. Unexpected Behaviour Example
Document
Location: Gym
Workshop Goal: Students will practice using their non-verbal skills to identify what the
expected zone is to be in for different scenarios, and identifying how they look in each zone
through drawing.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive
ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice their skills.
Materials Needed:
● The Zones in Me Activities Document
● Zones Colour Laminated Construction Paper
● Masking Tape
● Ziploc Bag filled with Phrases
● Zones in Me Worksheet (1 per Student)
● Pencils
● Erasers
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Review points below:
○ What are the 4 Zones?
Session Date: Monday November 6, 2017 Topic: Class 8 -Understanding Different Perspectives
Part 1
Location: Classroom
Workshop Goal: Students learn about how peers may interpret their behaviour when they are in
a specific zone.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive
ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice their skills.
Materials Needed:
● Understanding Different Perspective (1 per Student)
● Pencils
● Erasers
● 4 Chart Papers
● 1 Black Permanent Marker
● 1 Green, Red, Blue & Yellow Marker
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Review points below:
○ Discuss how others can be
impacted by our behaviours.
(20 Minutes)
Activities:
1. Replicate Understanding Different
Perspectives Worksheet onto Chart
Paper.
2. Distribute Understanding Different
Perspectives Worksheets to each
student. (Complete Green & Yellow
Zone).
3. As a group, fill out the worksheet
together by writing the answers on the
chart paper under the different blank
spots. (Students can use this as ideas to
help form their answers).
Location: Classroom
Workshop Goal: Students learn about how peers may interpret their behaviour when they are in
a specific zone.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive
ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice their skills.
Materials Needed:
● Understanding Different Perspective (1 per Student)
● Pencils
● Erasers
● 4 Chart Papers
● 1 Black Permanent Marker
● 1 Green, Red, Blue & Yellow Marker
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Review points below:
○ Discuss how others can be
impacted by our behaviours.
Location: Classroom
Workshop Goal: Students to learn about recognizing and labeling their body signs when they
are in the Green & Yellow Zone.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive
ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice their skills.
Materials Needed:
● Me in My Zones Document
● Me in My Zones Worksheets (1 per Student)
● 2 Chart Paper
● 1 Black Permanent Marker
● 1 Green & Yellow Marker
● 1 Ruler
● Pencils
● Erasers
● Pencil Crayons
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Review points below:
○ What are the signs you think
your body gives when you are
in a specific zone?
Location: Classroom
Workshop Goal: Students to learn about recognizing and labeling their body signs when they
are in the Blue & Red Zone.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive
ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice the skills.
Materials Needed:
● Me in My Zones Document
● Me in My Zones Worksheets (1 per Student)
● 4 Chart Paper
● 1 Black Permanent Marker
● 1 Green, Red, Blue & Yellow Marker
● 1 Ruler
● Pencils
● Erasers
● Pencil Crayons
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Review points below:
○ What are the signs you think
your body gives when you are
in a specific zone?
Session Date: Monday November 20, 2017 Topic: Class 12 -How Do I Feel?
Location: Classroom
Workshop Goal: Students to learn about how the events around them may impact their feelings.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive
ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice the skills.
Materials Needed:
● “The Day the Crayons Quit” by Drew Daywalt
● Pencils
● Pencil Crayons
● Erasers
● Pre-cut zone emotions
● Chart paper
● Ruler
● Black Permanent Marker
● Red, Yellow, Blue & Green Marker
● Masking Tape
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Review points below:
○ How can the way we are
feeling be changed by what is
going on around us?
Session Date: Thursday November 23, 2017 Topic: Class 13 -My Zones Across the Day
Location: Classroom
Workshop Goal: To learn about how our behaviours and feelings can change across the
duration of the day.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive
ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice the skills.
Materials Needed:
● My Zones Across the Day Script
● My Zones Across the Day Worksheet (1 per Student)
● 1 Chart Paper
● 1 Black Permanent Marker
● 1 Green, Yellow, Blue & Red Marker
● Pencils
● Erasers
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Review points below:
○ Do you think you change from
one zone to another across the
day?
Session Date: Monday November 27, 2017 Topic: Class 14 -Caution! Triggers Ahead
Location: Classroom
Workshop Goal: Students to learn about what their specific triggers are in situations.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive
ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice the skills.
Materials Needed:
● Examples of Triggers Document
● Red & Yellow Construction Paper to make Trigger Signs (1 per Student)
● Pencils
● Erasers
● Coloured Markers
● 1 Chart Paper
● 1 Black Permanent Marker
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Review the points below:
○ Define the word Trigger.
Session Date: Thursday November 30, 2017 Topic: Class 15 -ZONES Check-In
Location: Gym
Workshop Goal: For students to practice taking the time to check-in with themselves in their
understanding of the Zones of Regulation.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive
ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice the skills.
Materials Needed:
● Zones Check-In Document
● 48 Zones Check-In Worksheets
● 12 Icons of the four ZONES
● Pencils
● Erasers
● Masking Tape
● 4 Chart Paper with replica of ZONES Check-In Worksheet
● 1 Emotion Sheet of each Zone Colour
● 4 Strips of Red, Yellow, Blue & Green Construction paper
● Zones Posters
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Review points below:
○ Which emotions belong in
which zones?
Activities: (20 Minutes)
1. Instruct students to sit in a semi-circle
to explain instructions.
2. Inform students that they will each be
receiving a package with four ZONES
Check-In Worksheets when they arrive
at their first chart paper.
3. Randomly number them into groups of
3.
4. They will be traveling around to each
chart paper that is a specific zone with
their group.
5. When they arrive at a zone, they are
going to provide an example of feeling
an emotion and which zone you are in.
6. Staff will stick the emotion icon and
zone colour to the chart paper.
7. Next the students will draw a picture
of themselves feeling that emotion in
the box.
8. Once that is completed, Staff will give
them a zone colour square for the zone
they are currently at.
9. After all the group members have
gone, move to the next zone colour
clockwise/to your right.
10. Students cannot repeat the same
emotion as someone in their group.
11. Use a 5 minute timer. Once you hear it
go off, switch to the next zone.
Session Date: Monday December 4, 2017 Topic: Class 16 -Size of the Problem Part 1
Location: Classroom
Workshop Goal: Students to learn about labeling problems based on their size, and how to
differentiate between inner coach and inner critic.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive
ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice the skills.
Materials Needed:
● Size of the Problem Part 1 Document
● Size of the Problem Worksheets (1 per Student)
● Pencils
● Erasers
● 1 Chart Paper
● 1 Ruler
● Coloured Markers
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Define each of the problem sizes.
○ Tiny
○ Small
○ Medium
○ Big
○ Huge
● Discuss Inner Coach vs. Inner Critic
Wrap Up:
Reflection
Expectations of the next class
Group Session Planning Sheet
Session Date: Thursday December 7, 2017 Topic: Class 17 -Size of the Problem Part 2
Location: Classroom
Workshop Goal: To continue practicing identifying problems based on their size, and
understanding how to use inner coach in situations.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive
ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice the skills.
Materials Needed:
● Size of the Problem Worksheets (1 per Student)
● 12 Tokens (1 per Student)
● 1 Chart Paper
● Inner Coach Worksheet (1 per Student)
● 1 Black Permanent Marker
● Pencils
● Erasers
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Review points below:
○ The 5 Sizes of Problems.
○ Inner Coach vs. Inner Critic
Session Date: Monday December 11, 2017 Topic: Class 18 -Exploring Sensory Support Tools
Location: Gym
Workshop Goal: Student are to self-identify what tools they think will be useful for them when
they are in a specific zone.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self-awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive
ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice the skills.
Materials Needed:
● ZONES Tools Worksheets (1 per student)
● 2 Benches
● 1 Weighted Blanket
● 1 Fidget Ball
● 1 Fidget Spinner
● 1 Bouncy Ball
● 1 Play-Doh
● 1 Headphone
● 1 Bean Bag Pillow
● 1 Bouncy Band
● 1 Wobbly Chair
● 1 Meditation Ball
● 3 Deep Breathing Worksheets
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Review points below:
○ Importance of identifying
which tools work when you are
in a specific zone.
Session Date: Thursday December 14, 2017 Topic: Class 19 -The Toolbox
Location: Classroom
Workshop Goal: Students identify what they think is the best tools for them to use when they
are in a specific zone.
Objective: Teaching students how to use/implement Zones into their day to day life.
Attitude The belief that self awareness will help our students to recognize when feelings
arise and teach them how to cope and manage their feelings in productive
ways.
Knowledge Students will learn ways to cope, engage, and problem solve their own issues.
Skill Giving our students an opportunity to learn and practice the skills.
Materials Needed:
● Toolbox Worksheet (Transfer information from ZONES Tools Worksheet onto Toolbox
Worksheet) (1 per Student)
● Tools for Each of My ZONES (1 per Student)
● Pre-Cut ZONES Tools Menu (1 per Student)
● Glue Sticks (1 per Student)
● Pencils
● Erasers
● Zones License (1 per Student)
● Scissors (1 per Student)
Workshop Structure:
Content: (5 Minutes)
● Review the points below:
○ How to decide which tools are
most useful when in a specific
zone.