LESSON 4: Looks Like Respect, Sounds Like Respect, Feels Like (K-2)

A very basic outline for a four-week unit on feelings for young learners, this resource suggests four activities to help learners explore their feelings. Learners spend the first week listing feelings. In week two, they pantomime these...

Through discussion, role play, read-alouds, writing, and more, scholars explore the concept of bullying and practice having courage while responsibly reporting unfriendly behavior. Friendship and respect are practiced and...

Being able to identify their Social Studies is an important part of young children learning how to deal with their emotions. Elmo asks his friends if they are sad, his friends very clearly explain how they feel. Zoe is proud, Elmo is...

How do you feel when you get a compliment? Give a compliment? After modeling how to make explicit compliments (“I like the way . . .”) ask class members to practice saying nice things about themselves and others, and to consider how...

Students explore philanthropy through art. In this service learning lesson, students discuss the diversity in their community and use their senses to create tolerance posters.

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...

Students create a caring classroom environment, where they respect and care about each other, and the people and pets in their lives. They explore the importance of respect and kindness. Students are asked "What does it mean to respect...

In this respect worksheet, students read a list of steps about how to be respectful and complete a set of discussion questions based on a referenced video program. Suggestions for related student activities and writing are also given.

Students examine family structures. In this family structure lesson, students discover things about their own families and those of their classmates. They make a chart as they discuss nature versus nurture, complete a worksheet about who...

Learners move around the room to express opinions on specific questions. In this opinions lesson, students explore their feelings about the opinions they express.