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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Arthur: Games: About Face

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help Arthur to feed his dog by choosing the facial expressions that match the feelings he describes.
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Article
Frontiers Media

Frontiers for Young Minds: How Do Emotions Work?

For Students 6th - 8th
This article from Frontiers for Young Minds explains how emotions work.
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Lesson Plan
Committee for Children

Second Step: Grade 2: Lesson 11: Introducing Emotion Management

For Teachers 2nd
In this Second Step lesson plan, 2nd graders will begin learning about how to manage their emotions.
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Lesson Plan
Committee for Children

Second Step: Grade 1: Lesson 13: Strong Feelings

For Teachers 1st
In this Second Step lesson, 1st graders will learn how to recognize their feelings so that they can calm themselves.
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Lesson Plan
Committee for Children

Lesson 12: Identifying Our Own Feelings

For Teachers 1st
In this Second Step lesson, 1st graders will learn how to recognize their feelings by identifying physical cues.
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Lesson Plan
Committee for Children

Second Step: Grade 1: Lesson 12: Identifying Our Own Feelings

For Teachers 1st
In this Second Step activity, 1st graders will learn how to identify feelings by paying attention to physical cues in their bodies.
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Lesson Plan
Committee for Children

Second Step: Grade 1: Lesson 15: Self Talk for Calming Down

For Teachers 1st
In this Second Step lesson, 1st graders will learn how to use "self-talk" to help themselves calm down when they are upset.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Act I, Scene 1: Prologue

For Students 9th Standards
Students listen to lines 106-247 from Act I, scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet using Romeo and Juliet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition, to explore what emotion, other than hate, mentioned in the Prologue.
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Activity
Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon: Facial Expression Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduces facial expression and the steps to understanding what the expressions mean. Includes pictures and links.
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Activity
New York University

The Disgust Scale Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on the emotion of disgust. Also contains information on the Disgust Scale and has links to more in-depth articles about disgust.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs: Simple Games That Explore Feelings

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Identify and explore a wide range of human emotions and then participate in a classroom parade dramatizing emotions through body movements and facial expressions.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs: Oops! A Game for Dealing With Embarrassment

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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."
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Lesson Plan
Live Wire Media

Good Character: Teaching Guide: Controlling Anger (Spanish)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The Spanish version of a collection of activities and discussion questions to assist young students in learning to control their anger.
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Lesson Plan
Live Wire Media

Good Character: Teaching Guide: Controlling Anger

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A collection of activities and discussion questions to assist young students in learning to control their anger.
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Harvard University

Harvard University: Games With Words: Emotion Sense

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed assessment with thirty questions tests your understanding of different types of emotions and psychological states.
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Article
Other

Noteaccess.com: Emotion

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Graphic
Other

Personality Research: Plutchik

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Website
Other

American Holistic Health Association

For Students 9th - 10th
The American Holistic Health Association (AHHA) provides information on holistic medicine and promotes its use in standard medical practices.
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Website
Other

Abwag: Learn About Acting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Student awareness and appreciation of acting will be enhanced after discovering the tricks of the trade. They will learn how to act, feel and think in an acting environment.
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Website
Other

The Institute of Integrative Aromatherapy

For Students 9th - 10th
The Institute of Integrative Aromatherapy offers a certificate program for people who want to be practitioners in aromatherapy.
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Activity
Other

Changing minds.org: James Lange Theory of Emotion

For Students 9th - 10th
An easy-to-read description of the James-Lange Theory of Emotion along with a quote from William James, co-creator of the theory, who describes the theory in his own words.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Show Don't Tell

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
This lesson provides students with examples of Show, Don't Tell and connected emotions including an emotions and feelings chart. It gives them an opportunity to practice the concept as well.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Carnegie Mellon: Facial Expression Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduces facial expression and the steps to understanding what the expressions mean. Includes pictures and links.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Carnegie Mellon: Facial Expression Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduces facial expression and the steps to understanding what the expressions mean. Includes pictures and links.