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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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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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Angry Feelings (Responsible Personal Conduct)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students review proper classroom behavior and anger management techniques.
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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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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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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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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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Dog's Best Friend

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students learn about and identify feelings of happiness, sadness and disappointment. In this feelings lesson, students have a show and tell time about their pets and discuss how it would feel if they lost their pet. Students watch a...
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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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Poetry and Emotional Health

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore self-expression through poetry. In this personal health lessons students read and discuss poetry regarding teen topics of interest. Students write poems, that express empathy.
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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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Justice for All - Educating Youth for Social Responsibility: Grades K-5

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
In grades kindergarten through fifth grade, scholars take part in a social-emotional learning unit designed to boost social responsibility. Three hundred pages provide lessons and activities related to everyday classroom practices, the...
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Lesson: A Special Place

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Everybody has a special place they like to go. I hang out on top of the fridge, for example. Upper graders analyze the painting Mountain Lake, in terms of technique, style, and imagery. They then write or draw a place that expresses...
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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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Feelings: Easy Crossword Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this feelings and emotions crossword puzzle worksheet, students use 15 clues to solve the word puzzle with the appropriate words.
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Emotive language

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine emotion-based language. Students read a news story to discover examples of emotive words. They develop a class list of examples of emotive language. As a class project, students select a news story and change it into...
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Learning to Give

What Are Your Thoughts?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The varying responses of the characters in Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry to the discrimination they experience or perpetrate provides readers with an opportunity to not only examine the feelings of the characters but to...
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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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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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Expression of Emotions-Dance

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students dance to the song by Kids in Motion called "Show Me What You Feel" and create their own individual style of creative expression at the given cues for the specific emotions using a colored scarf and body movements.
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Health Education: Expressing Emotions

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders express emotions. In this personal health lesson plan, 2nd graders demonstrate how to express emotions and feelings in a positive manner, without hurting oneself or others.
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People and Feelings

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this emotions worksheet, students read six illustrated sentences and think about how the speaker is feeling. From two choices, students circle the feeling shown.
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Worksheet
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People and Feelings: Interpreting Feelings

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this interpreting feelings worksheet, students read 6 one-sentence illustrated stories. Students choose from 2 emotion words the best answer that describes the feeling in the story.
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Let's Be Emotion Detectors!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students observe and demonstrate how to read with expression. They discuss the types of emotions and expressions to use while reading, and identify the appropriate punctuation for a variety of sentences. Students then write a sentence...

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