Emotions: Exploring Feelings

Grouchy? Sad? Here's a great resource that shows kids how music can be used to lift their spirits. Kids collect and chart data on the effects of music on emotions. After analyzing the results of their experiment, they develop their own...

How do painters use and manipulate light in their artwork to give emphasis and establish mood and emotion? Pupils will analyze a few examples of landscape and portrait painting in order to explore the how light is used in art, and will...

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.

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...

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...

Learners 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. Learners also describe their emotions while listening to various...

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...

Students 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. Students read a story...

Express or represent a feeling or value in a drawing. The class writes the theme on paper and draws what the theme looks like with pen, pencil, pastels, or paints. Finally, students use a drawing program and upload their work to...