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Curated OER

Books for Teaching "All About Me!"

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students learn about experiences and feelings through books. In this lesson, students read a variety of books to aid in their understanding of life. Through a listing and brief synopsis of twelve books, students explore feelings,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Feelings Word Searches

For Students K - 3rd
Here is a instructional activity which invites learners to complete a series of word searches. They are required to locate 12 words in each of the six puzzles. This would be good independent practice during the school day.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Emotions

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this emotions worksheet, students ask a partner fourteen questions about emotions. Each partner asks a different set of questions.
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Scholastic

Writing Letters of Gratitude

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson begins with a discussion on gratitude—what does it mean, and for who are learners thankful? Scholars share their thoughts and feelings then choose a community worker to which they wish to share their gratitude. Writers compose a...
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Lesson Plan
Teaching Children Philosophy

Tiger-Tiger, is it True?

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th Standards
Scholars take part in a philosophical discussion about truth, thoughts, and feelings following a reading of Tiger-Tiger is it True? by Byron Katie and Hans Wilhelm. 
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Curated OER

Swirls and Smilies

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students listen to a variety of poetry and music that depicts emotions or feelings. As a class, they brainstorm a list of words that they use to show their feelings. To end the lesson, they listen to one song individually and make their...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

ESL Feelings

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these English Language emotions worksheets, students complete several different activities that help them find the correct emotions for the pictures and exercises.
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Unit Plan
Bolton Healthy Schools

Deal with Poetry

For Teachers 7th - 12th
The stated goal of this unit is to use poetry to "improve the emotional health of young people." Budding poets read and then supply their own lines for poems that deal with alienation, loneliness, and rejection.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Personal Connections to Build an Understanding of Emotions

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars make happy and sad masks to examine their personal emotions, allowing them to verbally express their feelings and learn abstract concepts. They use their masks also to help them categorize their emotions and later chart them.
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Curated OER

Poems "I Feel Happy"

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss various things that make him/her happy.  In this I feel happy lesson, 2nd graders express feelings in a poem.  Students reflect on the poems they have written.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Books that Make You Think, Books that Make You Feel

For Students 8th - 12th
In this book analysis worksheet, students discover how challenging novels affected other students by reading those student's letters to the specific authors. Students are to read the excerpts and then discuss the emotions triggered...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

My Many Colored Days

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore feelings.  In this mental health cross-curriculum lesson, students listen to My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss and discuss their own moods and feelings.  Students sing related songs, write about feelings, and play a...
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Unit Plan
Purdue University

Benefits of Connecting with Nature

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Feel the healing effects of nature. Individuals learn about the benefits of nature using imagery. They begin by defining words to express how they feel emotionally and then practice using those words with hands-on activities. Once they...
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Writing
Scholastic

Shy

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Help your pupils examine their feelings with the materials here. The class can first read the included poem about a shy person and then respond to one or more of the six included writing prompts.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Drama: The New Friends

For Teachers 2nd
Reader's Theater is a great way to build fluency, intonation, and dramatic flare. The class reads the theater piece, "The New Friends" paying attention to how they express emotion and feeling as they read. They discuss the use of plot,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Tone and Feeling

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this tone and feeling worksheet, learners discover that a story gives the mind an emotion or feeling. Students read 6 one-sentence stories. From two choices, learners write the word for the tone of the story.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Words That Name Feelings

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this feeling words worksheet, learners read the words that describe feelings and their definitions. Students then read the descriptions and write the word from the box that tells how each person is feeling.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Advertising and Emotions

For Students 7th - 12th
In this advertising worksheet, students are given an emotion or feeling then asked to fill in a chart based on advertising strategies.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Happy or Sad

For Students Pre-K - K
In this basic learning exercise on identifying emotions, students view a picture portraying a "sad" rhino and a "happy" rhino. Students color the rhinoceros that is happy, and draw an x on the one that is sad.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Happy and Sad: Discovering Feelings

For Students Pre-K - K
In this activity on basic emotions/feelings, students follow directions to identify the "happy cat" and the "sad cat." Pictures are large enough to color.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Kindergarten

For Teachers K
Students engage in a discussion about their preconceived ideas about kindergarten. They share their feelings about being in kindergarten and listen to the book "Oh, The Places You'll Go!" by Dr. Seuss.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Non-Verbal Communication

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Many developmentally disabled young scholars struggle with accurately conveying messages and interpreting those of others around them, especially when they are non-verbal. This lesson contains fun activities and exercises, such as...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Showing not telling writing

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
How do good writers exhibit emotion in their work without using an emotion word (angry, sad, happy, etc.)? This plan offers learners model texts that describe an emotion without using an emotion word. A well-formatted writing activity is...
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Activity
Curated OER

Marvelous Moods

For Teachers K - 1st
It isn't always easy to tell another person how we feel; and little ones have an even more difficult time identifying and expressing their emotions. They get a chance to discuss and explore how they can express how they feel in different...

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