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Non-Violence against Women Day
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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Kids Helpline: Helping Kids Identify and Express Feelings
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Everyday Learning: How Do You Feel Today?
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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Elementary School Counseling: Identifying and Expressing Feelings
This site contains a collection of activities to teach students how to identify and express their feelings.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: All About Emotions: Pre K and K
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.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Express Yourself
Test your skill at reading the emotion expressed in a face in these two matching games.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Cboces: Migrant Education Program: How Do I Feel Today?
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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Parenting Press: The Way I Feel Teaching Plan [Pdf]
"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.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Dealing With Feelings
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...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Handling Emotions
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 Learning Media: Managing and Expressing Feelings With Little Learners
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 Learning Media: Arthur: Feelings
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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Talk, Trust and Feel Therapeutics: Anger Management: Parents Get Mad Too!
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!
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Arts and Craft
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...
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Pbs: Simple Games That Explore Feelings
Identify and explore a wide range of human emotions and then participate in a classroom parade dramatizing emotions through body movements and facial expressions.
Committee for Children
Second Step: Grade 1: Lesson 13: Strong Feelings
In this Second Step lesson, 1st graders will learn how to recognize their feelings so that they can calm themselves.
Committee for Children
Lesson 12: Identifying Our Own Feelings
In this Second Step lesson, 1st graders will learn how to recognize their feelings by identifying physical cues.
Committee for Children
Second Step: Grade 1: Lesson 12: Identifying Our Own Feelings
In this Second Step lesson, 1st graders will learn how to identify feelings by paying attention to physical cues in their bodies.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Life's Little Lessons: Use Your Words
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 Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Sharing Your Creativity, Part 2: Pre K and 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 Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Life's Little Lessons: Disappointment
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...
BBC
Bbc Newsround: Dogs Copy Each Other's Emotions
Read about the ways in which dogs express basic empathy and engage in social bonding.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plans: Using Personal Connections to Understand Emotions
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...