3rd Grade Resilience Curriculum: Think before I choose. Mange when it's hard. RISE every day.

Grade 3 Book DescriptionHelp third graders think ahead, manage difficult moments, strengthen friendships, and make responsible choices.The RISE Third Grade Resilience Curriculum is a full academic-year Social & Emotional Learning curriculum designed to help students build the practical skills they need for school, relationships, and everyday life.Through 36 week-long practices and 180 daily learning experiences, students strengthen friendship skills, responsibility, decision-making, emotional regulation, conflict management, anti-bullying strategies, stress awareness, and healthy help-seeking.Third grade marks an important developmental shift. Students are beginning to understand not only what they feel and what choices they have, but also what may happen next because of those choices.The curriculum helps students practice how to: - build and maintain healthy friendships- show empathy, patience, cooperation, and compromise- take responsibility for their choices- think through problems before reacting- consider possible consequences- make and evaluate decisions- manage anger and frustration safely- resolve conflict without harming others- respond appropriately to bullying or unsafe situations- identify trusted adults and ask for help- understand stress and use healthy strategies to regain balanceA signature Grade 3 decision-making tool is PACCE: P - Problem A - Alternatives C - Consequences C - Choose E - EvaluateStudents learn to use this process to slow down, consider options, predict outcomes, make thoughtful choices, and reflect on what happened.Each week follows a consistent, teacher-friendly structure: Week Opener - Student Practice - Teacher Five-Day PlanLessons are practical, reflective, age-appropriate, and aligned with national health education concepts while supporting communication, decision-making, responsibility, self-management, and healthy relationship skills.The RISE approach treats resilience as something that can be practiced, strengthened, and applied. Students learn that difficult moments do not have to control what happens next.36 Week-Long Practices 180 Daily Learning Experiences Standards-Aligned Designed for a Full Academic YearHuman Performance, Built through Resilience.