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Overcoming Obstacles

Coping Skills

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A lesson plan challenges scholars to identify life stressors and list ways to cope. Learners create a "Coping with Emotions" book detailing the importance of responsibly working through our feelings.
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Overcoming Obstacles

Coping Skills

For Teachers K - 2nd
A lesson brings awareness to a variety of emotions. After discussing the many types of emotions, scholars create a list sorting emotions as easy and hard and then brainstorm coping skills. Pupils draw a picture depicting a scenario that...
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Health Smart Virginia

Stress Management Performance Task

For Teachers 5th
Stress management is the focus of a three-part lesson. First, scholars brainstorm a list of activities that decrease stress. Second, they document their feeling about stress—how they feel, their triggers, and calming activity. Finally,...
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Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation

Exclusion "Act"ivity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Two simulations highlight the feelings individuals experienced when immigrating to Angel Island. During the first simulation, scholars listen to and answer questions, divided based on their answers. The second simulation pins learners as...
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Overcoming Obstacles

Communicating Constructively

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Some conversations are easy and enjoyable, while others are horrific! To begin a lesson plan on communicating constructively, class members list examples of conversations that are easy, average, and those that are difficult and identify...
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Curated OER

Boys' Self-Esteem, Friendship, Managing Emotions, Media Literacy

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Learners explore their emotions, feelings and reasons for their feelings. After watching a commercial, they identify emotions the characters in the story experience. In groups, students examine the commercial script and predict what...
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Curated OER

Picture Fists Full of Kisses

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Ease children's back-to-school jitters with this primary grade lesson based on the book The Kissing Hand by Ruth E. Harper. Starting off with a singing of the song "I Wish I Had a Little Red Box", children go on to discuss and...
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Curated OER

Emotions and Feelings

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners should have a concept idea of the significance of friendship, feelings, communication and emotions. The use of the Internet is essential for communicationing their emotions through EPAL.
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Curated OER

What Can I Do?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify their feelings and examine constructive ways of handling conflict.  In this conflict activity students discuss how to communicate their feelings and resolve conflicts. 
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Curated OER

What Can I Do?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss feelings and ways to deal with problems. In this conflict resolution activity, students identify their feelings and learn ways to resolve conflicts with others.
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Curated OER

Happy/Sad Puppets

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Help young children identify their feelings and learn appropriate ways for expressing them. This lesson will help them understand that happy and sad are two different feelings, learn to distinguish and express different feelings, and...
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Curated OER

Distinct Dispositions

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students engage in a instructional activity that is concerned with the displaying of facial expressions and the tie to emotions. They create masks of different types of emotions and cut holes from the pictures in order to wear them....
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Curated OER

Kindergarten

For Teachers K
Students engage in a discussion about their preconceived ideas about kindergarten. They share their feelings about being in kindergarten and listen to the book "Oh, The Places You'll Go!" by Dr. Seuss.
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Curated OER

What Can I Do?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars explore ways to handle conflict. In this mental health instructional activity, students investigate ways to tell others how they feel and discover that identifying their emotions can help them resolve conflict.
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Curated OER

Swirls and Smilies

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students listen to a variety of poetry and music that depicts emotions or feelings. As a class, they brainstorm a list of words that they use to show their feelings. To end the lesson plan, they listen to one song individually and make...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Stressed Out Sally

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Life changes may cause stress. Here, scholars identify stressful situations in a peer's life and offer coping skills to make for a better day. A short story, "Stressed Out Sally," provides pupils with a look inside a bad day. After...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Stress: Grades 3-5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Two activities focus on stress—common stressors and coping strategies. In the first activity, scholars identify stressors and explore ways to keep stress away. To aid the process, learners create a poster and complete a handout...
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Curated OER

Puberty Changes- Lesson 1

For Teachers 4th
It may take a few clicks to find this lesson on the Alberta Health Services website, but it's well worth it. This is Lesson 1 in a series of six lessons. After setting up the ground rules, discuss puberty and the changes that affect...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Can You Erase the Damage?

For Teachers 3rd Standards
A pencil and an eraser bring forth the message that negative comments never truly disappear. On a large piece of paper, scholars list negative comments then attempt to replace them with kind ones. Pupils discuss the impact of negative...
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Curated OER

Non-Verbal Communication

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Many developmentally disabled students struggle with accurately conveying messages and interpreting those of others around them, especially when they are non-verbal. This lesson contains fun activities and exercises, such as talking with...
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Curated OER

Communicating Feelings

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students demonstrate ways to communicate feelings. In this character education lesson, students talk about communication and are shown examples of faces showing different emotions. Students identify the emotion and practice communicating...
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Curated OER

Faces of Emotion

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate human emotion by analyzing photographs they have taken.  In this human face lesson plan, 5th graders collaborate in pairs to take pictures of another student while they are expressing different emotions....
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Curated OER

Depression

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss feelings and depression and brainstorm ways to seek help. In this health lesson, the teacher leads a discussion about emotions focusing on when emotions are balanced and when they become unbalanced and a person can...
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Curated OER

Smiles Change the World

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore ways to notice when others are sad, happy, calm, or angry. They act out feelings and have others try to identify them. The listen to The Brand New Kid, focusing on plot, characterization, and illustrations. They create a...

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