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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Showing How to Deal With Anger

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Molly Bang's book, When Sophie Get's Angry-Really, Really Angry, provides students with positive ways of dealing with anger. When students explore their own methods of dealing with anger and then talk and write about new ways of...
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California Academy of Sciences

California Academy of Sciences: Facial Expressions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Are facial expressions learned or innate? [2:58]
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Other

Do2learn.com: The Feelings Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st
For this game, you are presented with several photographs and must choose the facial expression that matches the feeling you are given.
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Arizona State University

Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson plan to help students understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.
Lesson Plan
Arizona State University

Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson plan to help students understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Themes: Loneliness & Isolation: What Does It Mean to Feel Alone?

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "What does it mean to feel alone?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration...
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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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Harvard University

Harvard University: Games With Words: Emotion Sense

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed assessment with thirty questions tests your understanding of different types of emotions and psychological states.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Dealing With Anger

For Students 3rd - 5th
What happens when you feel angry? Do you throw things? Yell? Stomp your feet? Anger is an emotion that we all feel, but we deal with it in different ways. If you would like some ideas on ways to handle your anger, or how to tell if...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Going Back to School

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Kids Health offers tips and words of encouragement for kids going back to school, especially those who are shy. Click on "Feelings" for lots of ideas on learning to deal with a variety of emotions and situations relating to school and...
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Art Bingo: 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 we learn that art communicates ideas and feelings.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Emotional Volume: Is the Loudest Emotion the Important One?: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand that people can feel multiple emotions at the same time and that the intensity of an emotional display is not the same as the intensity of an emotion. It is 2 of 3 in the series...
Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Article: Coping With Frustration

For Students Pre-K - K
This article from the Fred Rogers' Company discusses the importance of being able to cope with frustration in a healthy manner. This practice will help children develop healthy attitudes.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Dealing With Disappointment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Children learn ways of dealing with feelings after being disappointed through simple exercises and tips, as well as questions for discussion and writing prompts. Includes ideas for home assignments and notes for parents.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Make 'Em Laugh or Cry Or

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
After sharing chapter 19 of Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls as an example of emotion-evoking writing, the young scholars will write their own detailed and emotional paragraphs. Students can draw from background knowledge of a...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Arthur: Games: About Face

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help Arthur to feed his dog by choosing the facial expressions that match the feelings he describes.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Terrible, Horrible Days

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
After reading the book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst, students have the chance to express the way they feel when they have a bad day. They will make personal connections as well as develop...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Feeling Angry

For Students 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart describing different strategies for dealing with anger. Provides ideas for discussions on how we deal with anger and what we can do to control it.
Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Dealing With Divorce

For Students 9th - 10th
Dealing with divorce means ultimately accepting new changes that will affect almost all aspects of a child's life. Coping with these changes can be easier if the child understands how to deal with their emotions of frustration,...
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Other

Hospice Net

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is dedicated to educating individuals how to help adolescents and children cope with difficult situations involving feelings of depression. These articles offer good advice for helping children in need.
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PBS

Pbs: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Activity: Going Away and Coming Back

For Students Pre-K - K
This activity from The Fred Rogers' Company uses imaginative play to help children express their feelings about when adults have to go away, and develop a sense of trust that grownups will come back.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Gratitude Bingo: 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, we are learning about how expressing our gratitude shows others how we feel when they help us.
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: Rothko's Legacy

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcript of NewsHour's Paul Solman interviewing the art historian and Rothko biographer, Dore Ashton. Provides insight into the life and work of abstract expressionist Mark Rothko. Interview dated August 5, 1998.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Help Your Child Cope With Teasing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Identify your feelings in various social situations that make you happy or sad. Talk about how it feels to be teased, and work together with others to develop a list of coping strategies.