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Anglomaniacy: Feelings Picture Test

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
In this feelings test, students are shown frog pictures with different facial expressions; they select the feeling that matches the facial expression.
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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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Anglomaniacy: Feelings Match Game

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
In this concentration-style, students match facial expressions with the corresponding feelings.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Focusing on Facial Expressions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will learn how to authentically revise their writing with this prompt and lesson.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Everyday Learning: How Do You Feel Today?

For Students Pre-K - K
This interactive helps children understand their emotions. Children are presented with scenarios (it's their birthday, their brother breaks a favorite toy, etc.) and asked to click on one of three icons that represent feeling happy, sad,...
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Anglomaniacy: Feelings Dictionary

For Students K - 1st Standards
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...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Hidden Power of Smiling

For Students 9th - 10th
Ron Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals some surprising results. Did you know your smile can be a predictor of how long you'll live- and that a simple smile has a measurable effect on your overall well-being?...
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Parenting Press: The Way I Feel Teaching Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
"The Way I Feel" by Janan Cain helps children express their emotions. This link includes lessons on what to say and do. There are also resources to use to assist with the plans. Children learn to draw pictures to demonstrate how they feel.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Wolf Behavior

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this classroom activity, students will observe different wolf behavior, facial expressions and body language to identify as either submissive or dominant behavior. Wolfs are observed in photos and short movie clips. Students will also...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Microexpression Zoetrope

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Build a zoetrope machine where you can animate a facial expression and the machine plays the animation back with this site. Site contains lesson plans, tips, and a place to document your design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Robotic Face

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Build a robotic face that can make facial expressions using simple machines on this website. This website includes the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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University of Bielefeld: Categories of Gestures

For Students 9th - 10th
Gestures carry much meaning and some have universal meaning, i.e.emblem or illustrate. The site gives details about many gestures.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Axial Muscles of the Head, Neck, and Back

For Students 9th - 10th
The skeletal muscles are divided into two categories: the axial, muscles of the trunk and head, and the appendicular, muscles of the arms and legs. Learn here all about the axial muscles.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Address

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The viewing goals for this lesson were for middle schoolers to use a visual text, Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech (played first without sound), to identify visual cues & understand why he may have chosen to use certain...
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US National Archives

Docsteach: Watching What?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will hypothesize what the president and cabinet members were watching on television by analyzing facial expressions, and body language, and the physical environment. Students will learn that President Ronald Reagan and his staff...
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Get Body Smart: Functional Anatomy of Skeletal Muscles

For Students 9th - 10th
Brought to you by Get Body Smart, students can learn about the human musculoskeletal system through this easy-to-access tutorial. Sections include muscles that act on the arm, shoulder, forearm, wrist, palm, digits, anterior thigh,...
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Take Lessons: How to Read Body Language: Examples From Around the World

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This resource provides several examples of different meanings of various types of body language.
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Understood For All

Understood: How to Help Your Child Understand Body Language

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article provides tips on how teach children to pick up on social cues.
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The Responsive Counselor: Body Language and Tone of Voice Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This blog post from shares several activities that will help students understand how to interpret voice tone and body language.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Personal Feelings Guidance

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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.
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National Library of France

National Library of France: Face to Face

For Students 9th - 10th
This portrait gallery of diverse approaches to representing the face and the human figure is rich in style and technique. A useful resource for comparing and contrasting how different artists figure out what makes portraiture interesting.
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Anglomaniacy: Feelings Quiz

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
In this feelings quiz, students select the picture and word that fits each definition.

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