Maya's Rainbow Pencils Interactive Adventure: Fairness and Sharing SEL Lesson, Film and Games

An interactive, ready-to-teach 45-minute lesson about fairness and sharing for students aged 7 to 11. Students don't just watch the story, they step inside it. It runs entirely from this download: no internet connection, no accounts and no student data. How it works Unzip the folder and open one file in your web browser. The animated film pauses for Pause and Predict and Choose the Ending, then students colour their way up the poster to the sun with fair-sharing choices, name feelings with the Feelings Thermometer, catch fair-sharing choices in the Fair Share Catcher, build their own avatar and earn the Fair Share Champion badge. The story Each table in Maple Class is making a poster about the school garden. Maya brings a brand new box of thirty rainbow pencils, but when Leo and Ben ask to borrow a colour, she says no. Sami, who joined the class that week, has no pencils at all. One by one, her friends go to help another group, and Maya is left colouring alone. Ms Harper explains that equal means everyone gets the same, but fair means everyone gets what they need to join in. Maya puts her pencils in the middle, passes the blue one to Sami first, and together the friends make the brightest poster in the class. What's included - The full 4-minute animated film, with built-in pauses for prediction and a class vote on the ending - Present mode for the whole class: Assembly (15 minutes), Lesson starter (30 minutes) or Full lesson (45 minutes), with class votes and a talk timer - Whole-class team mode with a scoreboard, or self-paced play for pairs and small groups - The Colour to the Sun story game, Feelings Thermometer, Fair Share Catcher, Story Sequencer and Class Quiz - Circle Time Wheel with talk prompts - Avatar builder, Fair Share Champion certificate, Passport stamp and a printable Home Connection card - Teacher guide (PDF, 3 pages) and a Read Me First guide - Every question read aloud, with large buttons for interactive whiteboards Learning objectives - Understand the difference between equal and fair - Share in ways that are fair and keep things safe: take turns, ask before borrowing and give things back - Notice when someone is left out, and help them join in File types in the ZIP HTML (the adventure page), MP4 (the film), MP3 (narration and sounds), JPG and PNG (images), WOFF2 (fonts) and PDF (guides). It works best in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge on a computer or Chromebook connected to your whiteboard. Licence For one teacher to use with their own classes. Part of a series Maya's Rainbow Pencils is Episode 6 of Northbeam Kids: Stories That Shape Us, animated stories with recurring characters, Maya, Leo, Ben, Sami and Ms Harper. The matching printable lesson pack is also available in this shop.