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Non-Violence against Women Day

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Young scholars examine International Non-Violence Against Women Day in relation to the Mirabal Sisters from the Dominican Republic. They watch a movie, answer discussion questions, and write an essay.
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Other

Kids Helpline: Helping Kids Identify and Express Feelings

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Learning to identify and express feelings in a positive way helps kids develop the skills they need to manage them effectively. Here are some tips on how to encourage your child to express their feelings.
Interactive
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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Other

Elementary School Counseling: Identifying and Expressing Feelings

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site contains a collection of activities to teach students how to identify and express their feelings.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: All About Emotions: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week children will learn to label emotions and how they can express them in different ways.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Express Yourself

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Test your skill at reading the emotion expressed in a face in these two matching games.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Cboces: Migrant Education Program: How Do I Feel Today?

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
A story about the feelings children have each day of the week. Includes audio narration in 11 additional languages with text in English.
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Other

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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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Dealing With Feelings

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Through the exercises presented at this website, students with "Learn that other kids experience the same kids of emotions as they do," "That it's important to understand what we're feeling," and "That we can often benefit by discussing...
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Handling Emotions

For Students 2nd - 8th
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...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Managing and Expressing Feelings With Little Learners

For Teachers K - 1st
This blog focuses on the teacher wanting to to give the kids an opportunity to socialize with each other and also provide some perspective for them on what is going on. Seeing each other in our homes would let them know that we're all in...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Feelings

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young children experience a wide range of emotions that they might not be able to name yet. Help students explore emotions.
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Other

Talk, Trust and Feel Therapeutics: Anger Management: Parents Get Mad Too!

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Talk, Trust, and Feel Therapeutics provides tips for people and dealing with anger management. Want to scream and yell? The tips on this page are good for everyone. Learn how to express your anger in a good way.
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Talk, Trust and Feel Therapeutics: Anger Management: Get Your Angries Out!

For Students 3rd - 6th
This is a great site for adults and children who need to find ways to manage their emotions. Contains a lot of helpful links and ideas.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Arts and Craft

For Students Pre-K - K
Join Daniel Tiger and his friends in this collection of fun, printable activities! From creating puppets and Kindness Loops (just like in the show!) to making thoughtful cards for friends, these worksheets will encourage your child's...
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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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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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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Committee for Children

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

For Teachers 1st
In this Second Step lesson, 1st graders will learn how to identify feelings by paying attention to physical cues in their bodies.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Life's Little Lessons: Use Your Words

For Students Pre-K - K
In this set of resources, we will focus on how you can help children learn to use words to express how they are feeling so others will understand how they feel and/or what they what. Included are videos, classroom activities, and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Sharing Your Creativity, Part 2: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math and Literacy development. This week (December 21st), we're learning how developing new artistic ideas helps us to express our thoughts and feelings.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Life's Little Lessons: Disappointment

For Students Pre-K - K
Whether the disappointment comes from unmet expectations at a birthday party or from another disappointment such as not getting a favorite snack at the grocery store or missing out on playtime with a friend due to illness, it is...
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BBC

Bbc Newsround: Dogs Copy Each Other's Emotions

For Students 2nd - 5th
Read about the ways in which dogs express basic empathy and engage in social bonding.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Lesson Plans: Using Personal Connections to Understand Emotions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...