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Health Education: An Integrated Approach
Fourth graders participate in role plays in order to consider how they use body language and facial expressions to convey their feelings. In this nonverbal communication lesson, 4th graders discuss the importance of paying attention to...
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Ever Changing Pumpkin Faces
Students create different faces and facial expressions on a real pumpkin using laminated black face items. In this facial expressions lesson plan, students can use the pumpkin to show feelings.
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Making Faces
Students analyze facial expressions on artifacts. In this artifacts lesson, students examine facial expressions on artifacts. Students draw a face with an expression of their choice.
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Drama: The New Friends
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,...
Keep Your Children Safe
What is Sadness
Encourage emotional intelligence with a worksheet examining the feeling of sadness. Scholars answer the question, "What makes you sad?" and draw a what their face looks like when they are sad.
Centervention
Halloween Worksheets: Emotional Monsters
Eight blank monster faces make up an activity that tasks scholars with drawing a face that corresponds to a specific emotion. Feelings include happiness, confusion, silliness, and more.
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Emotions!
In this ESL/emotions worksheet, students match 8 facial expressions with the words that describes them. They cut out pictures of faces at the bottom of the page and glue them to the heads that are labeled with the emotions such as angry,...
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Rhythmic Expression
Students discover movement and expression to music/sound through a series of teacher-led exercises and role plays. This lesson is ideal for the middle school drama class with possibilities for adaptation to any level of drama or general...
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Feelings
Students learn how to express their feelings. In this language development lesson, one student reads a sentence off a sentence strip and another student responds with "I feel...". The class discusses why the student feels that way and...
University of Minnesota
Mirroring Emotions
Do you ever give your class the "teacher look"? Without saying a word, they become silent and engaged (hopefully). How do they know what you're thinking? Explore the concept of nonverbal communication and how it relates to our mirror...
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My Many Colored Days
Young scholars explore feelings. In this mental health cross-curriculum instructional activity, students listen to My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss and discuss their own moods and feelings. Young scholars sing related songs, write...
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Angry
In this emotions worksheet, students use the large blank outline of a face to draw how they look when feeling angry. Students then complete this story starter: I feel angry when ...
National Gallery of Canada
One Look Is Worth A Thousand Words
Facial expressions can communicate complex emotions. Examine expressions in several hyperrealistic works of art before beginning a project. Learners will create their own clay faces that show an emotion using either photos or their own...
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I Have Emotions
Students read books and discuss different emotions that they have. In this emotions lesson plan, students make different facial expressions to that express specific emotions and role play emotions.
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What's Your Expression
First graders explore facial expressions in a mirror and create drawings of people with a facial expression of their choice. They graph the facial expressions drawn.
Thoughtful Learning
Seeing Emotions in Body Language
Scholars test their skills of reading body language with a collaborative learning experience that focuses on showing and identifying emotions. Pairs take turns acting out an emotion, one uses body language while the other guesses what...
District 186 Springfield Public Schools
Tone, Mood, Theme, and Motif
It's all well and good when you're asked to identify a speaker's tone using his or her body language, facial expression, and pitch and emphasis. Identifying the tone of a written passage is another challenge entirely. Check out an...
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Using Words to Work Things Out
Students explore appropriate ways to communicate feelings. In this character development activity, students listen to Hands are not for Hitting and several other books about expressing emotions appropriately. Students observe puppet...
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A Happy Time
Second graders listen to stories about feelings and identify their own feelings during certain times of their lives. In this a happy time lesson, 2nd graders explore writing elements as a way to communicate with a variety of audiences...
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ESL: Adjectives- "How Do You Feel?"
In this ESL adjectives learning exercise, students fill in blanks to describe what emotion if shown by facial expressions and choose the word that describes emotions in pictures shown.
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Expressing Feelings
Students practice pantomime movements. In this body awareness lesson, students discover how to convey emotions through physical movements. Students practice conveying happiness and sadness through physical movement.
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Feathers
First graders examine the character values of kindness, responsibility, and decisions making by playing circle games, listening to a read aloud of the story "Feathers," and discussing the story. They discuss the facial expressions of can...
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Distinct Dispositions
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the displaying of facial expressions and the tie to emotions. They create masks of different types of emotions and cut holes from the pictures in order to wear them. Students discuss the...
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Happy Birthday or Boring Birthday?
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with more expression. They observe a demonstration of wishing happy birthday with and without expression, and in pairs demonstrate reading with expression using the...