Other
Massey Univ.: Saying, Showing, Gesturing, and Feeling
This paper by John Shotter examines language development through Wittgenstein and Vygotsky. He contrasts the theories of language development from both of these psychologists.
Other
Apperson: 10 Activities to Help Students Explore Emotions
Ten activities are provided that will help young students learn more about their feelings and emotions.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Feelings
Two lessons are provided that engage students in learning about their feelings and the feelings of others.
Other
Elementary School Counseling: Identifying and Expressing Feelings
This site contains a collection of activities to teach students how to identify and express their feelings.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Grades 3 to 5: Feeling Sad
These social-emotional learning lessons will help students learn how to deal with sadness
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Getting to Know Characters
In this language development lesson using the books by Kevin Henkes English Language Learners learn vocabulary and language structures to express feelings, make text-to-self connections, and practice the reading strategy of analyzing...
Curated OER
Kids Health:how to Talk to Your Child About the News
Children may worry about current events and need an adult to help make sense of what is happening. Adults will be able to find useful and engaging information.
Committee for Children
Second Step: Grade 1: Lesson 13: Strong Feelings
In this Second Step lesson, 1st graders will learn how to recognize their feelings so that they can calm themselves.
Committee for Children
Lesson 12: Identifying Our Own Feelings
In this Second Step lesson, 1st graders will learn how to recognize their feelings by identifying physical cues.
Committee for Children
Second Step: Grade 1: Lesson 12: Identifying Our Own Feelings
In this Second Step activity, 1st graders will learn how to identify feelings by paying attention to physical cues in their bodies.
PBS
Pbs: Simple Games That Explore Feelings
Identify and explore a wide range of human emotions and then participate in a classroom parade dramatizing emotions through body movements and facial expressions.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Help Your Child Cope With Teasing
Identify your feelings in various social situations that make you happy or sad. Talk about how it feels to be teased, and work together with others to develop a list of coping strategies.
PBS
Pbs: Oops! A Game for Dealing With Embarrassment
Explore feelings of embarrassment and discuss ways to cope with those feelings. Match halves of patterned paper in the shape of pants and hang them on a "clothesline."
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Dealing With Feelings
Learn how to cope with unpleasant feelings, and to teach young learners how to deal with their emotions.
Harvard University
Harvard University: Games With Words: Emotion Sense
A detailed assessment with thirty questions tests your understanding of different types of emotions and psychological states.
Other
Noteaccess.com: Emotion
This site from Noteaccess.com defines emotion, gives summaries of the main theories of emotions, identifies the eight primary emotions according to Robert Plutchik, and breifly discusses body-language.
Other
Personality Research: Plutchik
This site lists Plutchik's ten postulates for psychoevolutionary theory on emotions, and provides basic emotions and a basis for inclusion for each. Also includes a bibliography.
Other
Ed u.com: Three Fundamentals of Selling Your Message
This site is provided for by Ed-U.com. Based on the Greek ideas of ethos, logos, and pathos the writer addresses how to adequately persuade an audience.
EL Education
El Education: Kindergarten Feelings
Students write complete sentences telling about their feelings. Sentences are illustrated with a self portrait and a digital photograph.
Other
Anglomaniacy: Feelings Dictionary
In this feelings dictionary entry, students click on one of the frogs with an expression on his face; the feeling is stated and a definition is shown. There are also flashcards with the same frog pictures so they can practice learning...
Other
Anglomaniacy: Feelings Match Game
In this concentration-style, students match facial expressions with the corresponding feelings.
Other
Anglomaniacy: Feelings Picture Test
In this feelings test, students are shown frog pictures with different facial expressions; they select the feeling that matches the facial expression.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Personal Feelings Guidance
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will match a facial expression with the appropriate emotion. Students will choose the appropriate feeling for a given situation, and explain why that feeling was chosen.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing Showing Feelings
[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart shows how writers express feelings. Instead of telling the reader, they show the reader through descriptive writing.