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Thoughtful Learning

Checking the Emotion Thermometer

For Students K - 5th
A hand-drawn thermometer provides a strong visual for how much of an emotion a child is feeling. Scholars color the thermometer's mercury to showcase whether what they are feeling is high or low at a certain moment. Questions allow...
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Thoughtful Learning

Expressing Emotions Through Movement

For Students K - 5th
Encourage scholars to better understand and express their feelings with an activity designed to boost self-awareness. Scholars read several statements that challenge them to showcase how their body moves when they feel certain feelings....
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Thoughtful Learning

Seeing Emotions in Body Language

For Students K - 5th
Scholars test their skills of reading body language with a collaborative learning experience that focuses on showing and identifying emotions. Pairs take turns acting out an emotion, one uses body language while the other guesses what...
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Curated OER

Emotion Card Games

For Teachers K - 8th
Emotions come in all shapes and sizes, and can be difficult for young learners or students with special needs to identify. Support them in gaining the valuable social skill of recognizing emotions and understanding empathy with this...
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Lions Clubs International Foundation

Mindful Self-Awareness Exercise: Identifying Feelings

For Parents Pre-K - 2nd
Young scholars identify feelings through facial expressions and body language. Learners listen for a feeling word, then act it out and discuss how they portrayed it.
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Lions Clubs International Foundation

Mindful Self-Awareness Exercise: Identifying Feelings

For Parents 3rd - 5th
Following a breathing exercise, scholars examine facial expressions and body posture to identify feelings. The exercise ends with a reflection.
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Curated OER

Today I Feel Silly Activity Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
A big part of learning how to be emotionally healthy is learning how to identify and express your emotions. The book Today I Feel Silly is the inspiration for a wonderful activity plan that is intended to teach young children how to be...
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Facing History and Ourselves

Emoji Emotions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The BC (Before COVID) and AC (After COVID) classrooms differ. Instructors must reestablish protocols and opening and closing routines with learners who are no longer used to in-person learning. The second routine in the series designed...
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Thoughtful Learning

Seeing Emotion in Facial Expressions

For Students K - 8th
Learning to read body language, especially facial expressions, is the focus of a mini-lesson. Young learners examine a series of photographs, identify the emotion being illustrated, and then discuss the cues that revealed the emotion.
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Elementary School Counseling

Feelings Glasses Activity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
What if your feelings could change in a single instant just by putting on a new pair of glasses? Explore different types of feelings with your youngsters with this activity, and consider a world of possibilities after introducing this...
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Northern Ireland Curriculum

Feeling Good, Feeling Sad

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
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.  
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Lions Clubs International Foundation

Mindful Self-Awareness Exercise: Identifying Feelings

For Parents 6th - 12th
A self-awareness activity teaches pupils to identify their feelings by focusing on different parts of their bodies. Participants begin by focusing attention on their feet, then calves, moving up slowly to the top of their head, and...
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Thoughtful Learning

Expressing Emotions Through Drawing

For Students K - 5th
Draw it out! Sometimes creating a picture is an easier way for pupils to express how they are feeling. A short mini-lesson encourages just that approach. After drawing an expressive picture, artists are asked to reflect on their work and...
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Curated OER

Exploring Emotions Through Activities

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
You'll definitely want this rich compilation of worksheets and activities in your toolbelt as you review and discuss the range of emotions we have as human beings. Activities include defining feelings, identifying ways we express...
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Amani Project

Harmony Break! Finding Emotions With Music

For Parents 3rd - 8th
Gather the entire family (or class members) for a fun Harmony Break! A volunteer thinks of a color from their Mood Meter that they will express by singing, playing an instrument, or performing a dance. After the performance, the audience...
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The New York Times

Breathing With a Pinwheel

For Parents K - 6th
A pinwheel encourages deep breathing to calm one's body and recenter their thoughts. Scholars breathe into a personal pinwheel with different types of breathing patterns then answer a question about how they feel. 
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Thoughtful Learning

Using Positive Self-Talk

For Students K - 5th
Boost positive self-talk with a chart that turns negative feelings into happy ones. Scholars write down their negative emotions then rewrite them with a positive flair to aid in changing their outlook. 
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Lions Clubs International Foundation

I Can Keep Calm

For Parents Pre-K - 2nd
Strong emotions may arise at anytime and any where. This activity boosts self-awareness and management for when young learners require assistance with their feelings. Tips include: remaining calm, breathing, explaining how they feel, and...
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Curated OER

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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International Boys' Schools Coalition

Empathy

For Teachers K - 6th
Putting yourself in someone else's shoes is a common phrase we hear from time to time, but do children really understand? Explore empathy with elementary schoolers using these activities. Focusing on feelings and emotions, students role...
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PBS

Robot Body Language

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Don't be so emotional! Scholars take part in an activity where they consider how future robots will be able to show emotions. They place paper bags over their heads, act out emotions through body movements, and have others guess the...
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Conflict Resolution Network

Empathy

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Children are naturally friendly and communicative, but often have a hard time expressing their emotions in a clear and understandable way. Help them hone their communication skills with a set of activities based on creating empathy,...
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Lions Clubs International Foundation

Mindful Self-Management Exercise: Managing Stress

For Parents Pre-K - 2nd
An exercise offers young scholars a coping skill to manage stress or other strong emotions. Learners identify the emotion, focus on how their body feels physically, then pretend they are holding a balloon over their heads, blow their...
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Lions Clubs International Foundation

Mindful Self-Management Exercise: Managing Stress

For Parents 3rd - 5th
Help scholars manage stress with an activity that prompts them to think of their feelings as clouds floating over their heads. Learners identify their feelings, focus on their responses, and allow them to float away.

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