Develop emotional awareness and self-regulation skills with interactive SEL lessons, customizable tools, and everyday scenarios aligned with The Zones of Regulation.
Exploring Emotions is an SEL app that helps learners build emotional awareness, self-regulation skills, and coping strategies through interactive scenarios grounded in The Zones of Regulation® framework.
Built on the same principles as The Zones of Regulation Digital Curriculum (not included), the app gives learners a structured way to recognize emotions, understand triggers, and practice strategies for self-management. When used alongside the Zones Digital Curriculum, learners have an opportunity to practice, strengthen, and generalize regulation skills.
“Exploring Emotions is highly recommended for any educator working with students on emotional regulation.” — Jackie Bryla (A.C.T.)
Build emotional literacy through real scenarios:
Players navigate common school and social situations: a classroom, cafeteria, and park, learning to identify their Zones, reflect on goals, and explore regulation tools that support daily functioning. This approach reinforces core SEL concepts: emotional regulation, perspective taking, and flexible thinking.
Key Features:
- Audio narration supports accessibility and models communication.
- Data tracking strengthens reflection by letting learners log their Zones, identify patterns, and share insights with educators or caregivers.
- Customizable Toolbox with dozens of coping strategies and self-regulation tools.
- Replayable scenarios that support practice, problem-solving, and skill generalization.
- Mini games that connect emotional reactions to real-time decision making.
- Multiple real-life environments that strengthen social-emotional learning.
- Embedded references to The Zones curriculum for deeper instructional support.
Designed for flexible use across SEL settings:
Exploring Emotions supports Pre-K through secondary students and is also applicable for adults working on emotional regulation. It can be used in classrooms, therapy settings, and at home as part of a broader SEL or behavioral health program. Adult facilitation enhances skill transfer and strengthens connections to everyday life.
Educators, therapists, and families use the app to reinforce emotional regulation, self-management, and coping strategies taught through The Zones framework.
Download Exploring Emotions: The Zones and help learners build lifelong self-regulation skills.
It helps me stay focused. It reminds me of school.
It is very difficult to navigate and repeat the same situation all the time
KathyNik
I am not happy with it because it has only a few situation to navigate.
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2DC4dc
This is a great app. It's quite an improvement from the first Zones app (which personally I found lacking content), where it does not just touch on a few points in the curriculum, but provides many examples and activities. I highly recommend this over the original Zones app! I would love to see some more scenarios added to the park, as kids love to run around and interact with all the characters and play the basketball game. More ways to earn coins would be great too. I have found some kids just enter tools without thinking about them just to earn coins so they can buy a new outfit from the shop. These are minor issues I have that I think could be improved. Overall I'm very satisfied with the app. Highly recommended."
Fabulous App
Pickle Stix
This is an amazing tool! I work with children on the autism spectrum and will definitely be sharing the app with them. The settings will be familiar to them and the scenarios are very typical, but offer help for times like those that are too difficult for them to problem solve. I reviewed the entire app and found myself smiling through it all. The characters and music are quite engaging. I had a ball in the food fight, but lost due to my poor video game skills. I'm sure this app will be of value to a lot of children and their support people.
• Updated Engine for improved performance and compatibility with the latest devices
• Updated system SDKs, including iCloud support, data tracking, and graph generation
• Refreshed reference links to help users learn more about the topics covered
• Improved text, dialogue, and voiceover for greater clarity and accessibility
• Critical bug fixes and overall stability improvements
Version 1.5.0
The developer, Selosoft, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Accessibility
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