Nemours KidsHealth
Feeling Sad: Grades 3-5
Everyone feels sad sometimes—aide in the coping process with two activities. In the first activity, scholars discuss sadness then complete a worksheet detailing ways four peers can identify their feelings and ways to feel better. The...
Overcoming Obstacles
Communicating Constructively
Some types of verbal communication are just more difficult that others. High schoolers engage in a series of activities that are designed to help teens make difficult conversations easier and more effective.
Do2Learn
Social and Emotions Picture Cards
Social and emotional skills are a difficult task for people with autism to master. Help them become more aware of day-to-day emotions as well as how to express them with this massive set of picture cards.
Keep Your Children Safe
What is Sadness
Encourage emotional intelligence with a instructional activity examining the feeling of sadness. Scholars answer the question, "What makes you sad?" and draw a what their face looks like when they are sad.
Northern Ireland Curriculum
Feeling Good, Feeling Sad
Fill your classroom with grand conversations about emotions and the healthy ways to express them. Your scholars will create a collage, play a feelings game, read stories, and reflect on their daily feelings.
Kids' Pages
Feelings Definitions
What is one word to identify someone who cannot think clearly? From confusion and anger to happiness and exhaustion, young learners practice defining basic feelings and emotions by matching terms to their appropriate fill-in-the-blank...
Kids' Pages
Feelings Matching 2
What does it look like when someone is feeling sad, worried, hungry, or happy? These are some of the emotions that your youngsters will identify in a simple matching activity.
Elementary School Counseling
When I Feel...
Help youngsters become proactive thinkers and emotional beings with these great worksheets, in which pupils identify what strategies they will use in order to address big feelings, like happiness, sadness, anger, and fear.
Elementary School Counseling
I Know what to Do When I Am…
How should we handle ourselves when we are mad/sad/happy/scared? Help youngsters understand unique emotions and plan specific actions they can take the next time they encounter feelings unexpectedly.
Curated OER
Feelings
Students describe how they feel in different situations. In this feelings lesson plan, students respond to questions asked by the teacher while reading the book The Way I Feel. They also use mirrors to show look at their own faces while...
Curated OER
Feelings: Sad
In this exploring emotions worksheet, students fill in features on a blank face and then write about themselves when they feel sad.
Curated OER
First Word: Sad
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the word sad, write it independently, and identify it in a group of other words.
Curated OER
Color the Happy Acorns
In this art activity, students color the biggest acorn brown and the smallest acorn orange. Then they color the middle size acorn yellow.
Curated OER
Feelings
Students evaluate feelings and the differences in feelings terms. They identify feelings words by watching gestures and play the Flyswatter Game to choose the correct feeling. As a class they select the feelings they have in response to...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Why Am I So Sad
Feeling sad is something that everyone has to deal with. Some people feel sad more often than others, some people feel it more intensely than others. There are ways to get over sadness, but it is a natural feeling that you cannot escape...
Anatomical Travelogue
Thevisual md.com: Depression
Take a look deep inside the mind with this multimedia learning experience exploring the disease of depression.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: She Didn't Mean to Do It
This three-stanza poem creates a feeling of mystery, pain, and sadness.
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: It's Such a Little Thing to Weep
A poem from Emily Dickinson, " It's Such a Little Thing to Weep--", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Mark Eckardt and can access a printable version of this piece.
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: We Don't Cry Tim and I
A poem from Emily Dickinson, "We Don't Cry--Tim and I", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Mark Eckardt and can access a printable version of this piece.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
After Noah's dad is arrested for sinking a casino boat he believed was dumping sewage into the ocean, Noah must prove that his suspicions are right and stop the boat from further polluting the ocean. Selected (8) reading passages (grades...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Themes: Death: How Do People Face Death?
This is a Collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "How do people face death?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration required...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Handling Emotions
Know that it is normal to experience different emotions and learn positive ways to deal with your emotions. This website, which is meant to accompany a video on emotions and good character, provides questions for discussion, activity...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Grades 3 to 5: Feeling Sad
These social-emotional learning lessons will help students learn how to deal with sadness
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plans: Using Personal Connections to Understand Emotions
A lesson plan in which younger students draw on prior experiences that made them happy or sad, build two-sided masks, work with Venn diagrams, and connect personally with the emotions conveyed by poems in The Way I Feel by Janan Cain...