Emotions: Exploring Feelings

Young scholars explore student psychology by completing a visual arts project. In this human emotion lesson, students collaborate in groups and discuss how different situations cause emotions and feelings to rise in them. Young scholars...

Students explore their feelings through music and art. In this music and arts lesson, students listen to My Many Colored Days and choose a color to go with each emotion. Students also describe their emotions while listening to various...

Students create pencil drawings of assigned items and then, study painting by Vincent Van Gogh. They discuss how different colors make them feel and are then assigned a mood to express by adding color to their line drawing.

Students use poetry to help convey their emotions and feelings. In this poetry and emotion instructional activity, students read a poem about love and discuss feelings. Students use Makaton signs through the poem. Students use colored...

Through photography, elementary schoolers examine emotions. Learners become aware that photography can communicate emotions and ideas. Use school photos and magazine images to have a discussion about how the people in these images feel...

Photographs can show a range of emotions. Discuss Dorothea Lange's photo Migrant Mother and a range of other images in relation to emotion. After the discussion, class members contribute to a set of photographs that express various...

These activities promise to provide a day full of fun for young learners as they explore feelings and emotions. Learners participate in two sing-alongs with the songs "Smile" and "If You're Happy", they color emotion masks, and finally...

Blue is sad, and red is angry, but why is that? Young artists explore the expression of emotions through art by observing and creating artwork. Starting with a questioning session about images of art, this plan moves into a sculpture...

Third graders express and interpret information and ideas. They identify a variety of feelings and their effect on people. They explain how someone's actions can cause someone else to have a specific feeling.

Students access prior knowledge of emotion in art. In this typefaces lesson, students understand that the lines and shapes in the computers font give us different feelings. Students examine fonts and feelings. Students make a file card...