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Using Personal Connections to Build an Understanding of Emotions

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students make happy and sad masks to examine their personal emotions, allowing them to verbally express their feelings and learn abstract concepts. They use their masks also to help them categorize their emotions and later chart them.
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Expressing Emotions through Art Lesson 4—Everybody Celebrates

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a celebratory hat after viewing images of artwork depicting people celebrating an event. In this artistic perception lesson plan, students discover why people celebrate their accomplishments and how to express feelings...
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Poems "I Feel Happy"

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss various things that make him/her happy.  In this I feel happy lesson, 2nd graders express feelings in a poem.  Students reflect on the poems they have written.
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Focus on Feelings

For Teachers K - 1st
Use this resource to embark on a simple exploration of feelings and emotions. You can use the pictures and discussion starters provided to help learners start to think about feelings. It would be a useful presentation to show before a...
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The Human Organism

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify their feelings and learn constructive ways of handling conflict. In this human mental health lesson, students identify their feelings, learn how to tell others about their feelings, and learn how to resolve conflict....
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Books that Make You Think, Books that Make You Feel

For Students 8th - 12th
In this book analysis worksheet, students discover how challenging novels affected other students by reading those student's letters to the specific authors. Students are to read the excerpts and then discuss the emotions triggered...
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My Many Colored Days

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore feelings.  In this mental health cross-curriculum lesson, students listen to My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss and discuss their own moods and feelings.  Students sing related songs, write about feelings, and play a...
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Benefits of Connecting with Nature

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Feel the healing effects of nature. Individuals learn about the benefits of nature using imagery. They begin by defining words to express how they feel emotionally and then practice using those words with hands-on activities. Once they...
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Writing
Scholastic

Shy

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Help your pupils examine their feelings with the materials here. The class can first read the included poem about a shy person and then respond to one or more of the six included writing prompts.
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Drama: The New Friends

For Teachers 2nd
Reader's Theater is a great way to build fluency, intonation, and dramatic flare. The class reads the theater piece, "The New Friends" paying attention to how they express emotion and feeling as they read. They discuss the use of plot,...
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Emotions: ACE English Program

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers respond to prompts about emotions. In this ESL/ELL instructional activity, students develop an understanding of vocabulary and feelings associated with emotions. They identify emotions on flashcards, in magazines, and on...
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Tone and Feeling

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this tone and feeling worksheet, students discover that a story gives the mind an emotion or feeling. Kids read 6 one-sentence stories. From two choices, students write the word for the tone of the story.
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Words That Name Feelings

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this feeling words worksheet, students read the words that describe feelings and their definitions. Students then read the descriptions and write the word from the box that tells how each person is feeling.
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Organizer
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Advertising and Emotions

For Students 7th - 12th
In this advertising instructional activity, students are given an emotion or feeling then asked to fill in a chart based on advertising strategies.
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Worksheet
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Happy or Sad

For Students Pre-K - K
In this basic worksheet on identifying emotions, students view a picture portraying a "sad" rhino and a "happy" rhino. Students color the rhinoceros that is happy, and draw an x on the one that is sad.
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Happy and Sad: Discovering Feelings

For Students Pre-K - K
In this worksheet on basic emotions/feelings, learners follow directions to identify the "happy cat" and the "sad cat." Pictures are large enough to color.
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Kindergarten

For Teachers K
Students engage in a discussion about their preconceived ideas about kindergarten. They share their feelings about being in kindergarten and listen to the book "Oh, The Places You'll Go!" by Dr. Seuss.
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Non-Verbal Communication

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Many developmentally disabled students struggle with accurately conveying messages and interpreting those of others around them, especially when they are non-verbal. This lesson contains fun activities and exercises, such as talking with...
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The Anxiety Workbook For Teens

For Students 7th - 12th
Teens often face a great deal of worry in their lives, and can be at a loss with how to anticipate and handle their emotions. This workbook is an exceptional resource for both educators and learners alike as a way of supporting teens in...
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Feelings

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students learn how to express their feelings. For this language development lesson, one student reads a sentence off a sentence strip and another student responds with "I feel...". The class discusses why the student feels that way and...
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Showing not telling writing

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
How do good writers exhibit emotion in their work without using an emotion word (angry, sad, happy, etc.)? This plan offers learners model texts that describe an emotion without using an emotion word. A well-formatted writing activity is...
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Activity
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Marvelous Moods

For Teachers K - 1st
It isn't always easy to tell another person how we feel; and little ones have an even more difficult time identifying and expressing their emotions. They get a chance to discuss and explore how they can express how they feel in different...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Stressed Out Sally

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Life changes may cause stress. Here, scholars identify stressful situations in a peer's life and offer coping skills to make for a better day. A short story, "Stressed Out Sally," provides pupils with a look inside a bad day. After...
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Rates of Puberty Change: Lesson 2

For Teachers 6th - 10th
The class fills in a handout - How Appearances Change During Puberty.  They then discuss the changes that both boys and girls go through and make some comparisons of the differences between boys and girls . Hopefully this class is a safe...

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