Social Awareness What Would You Do? Cards — Think, Choose, Act
Grandpa sighs at his new phone just as you head out to play.
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About this resource
Grandpa sighs at his new phone just as you head out to play. These social awareness what would you do scenarios, free with a free account (no card needed), start from moments like that, where the skill is noticing someone else first. In all 40 scenes, students in Grades 2–5 stop and think, pick one of three action cards and explain it.
What students practice
- Noticing how grown-ups and little kids feel
- Seeing a rule from the rule-maker’s side
- Understanding why fair isn’t always the same
- Reading the mood of a whole group
- Asking respectfully about languages, foods and customs
What’s inside
- 40 scenario cards in ten Social Awareness areas, including gratitude, belonging, fairness and cultural backgrounds
- 120 action cards, a set of three for every scene
- 40 reflection sheets
- A teacher guide with five ways to use the cards; 77 pages
A look inside
- Comics on the Top Shelf: the comics moved up high, and the librarian is taping a torn cover.
- The Wobble Cushion: Xavier gets a wobble cushion for math, and you whisper, “No fair, I want one too.”
- Bread Like a Spoon: Biniam scoops his stew with flatbread while a kid stares. Ask With Interest, Say It Looks Good or Stare and Giggle?
How to use these social awareness what would you do cards
- Debate: groups defend different action cards for The Wobble Cushion
- After the vote, ask, “Can you think of another good action not listed on these cards?”
- Act out The Water Jet and see how each choice lands on the toddler
- Create Your Own Scenario: students write a new scene with three actions
Grade fit
School leads here (15 scenes), then the community and home: a lantern walk, a wall of doorbells, a town park survey. Students read familiar people, from a wailing toddler to a nervous volunteer reader. That suits Grades 2–5, and these social awareness scenarios work as SEL decision making activities before a fairness unit.
Digital version
The interactive digital version shares as one link: students answer the think questions (or just read them in the quick format), choose an action card and say why, on any device with no student logins. At the end they download an answer sheet to hand in.
Pairs well with
For one area in depth, see Perspective Taking What Would You Do? Cards, or act it out with Free Social Awareness Role Play Scenarios.
Questions teachers ask
How do the cultural scenes handle differences?
In the four cultural-background scenes (flatbread at lunch, dinner on a floor cloth, a long-necked string instrument, a market with labels you can’t read), the best action is asking with interest. The impulsive cards show staring, giggling, grabbing or pinching your nose at the smell, so students can talk about why those land badly.
Is it the full set or a preview?
The full set: 40 scenarios, 120 action cards and 40 reflection sheets, free with a free account.
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