Strengthen the skill to empathize with others with a learning exercise that challenges scholars to match emotions—including happy, confused, sad—to one's body language.

Concepts

social-emotional learning, empathy, character traits, expressing feelings, feelings, emotions

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Play a game of charades in which pupils act out a specific emotion while others guess what emotion it is 
• Create an empathy-themed bulletin board that features a variety of emotions
• Review answers when everyone finishes the task, invite learners to share what part of the pictures helped them make their choice

Classroom Considerations

• The page is the fourth of six resources in a series designed to reinforce positive character traits 
• Color copies will look best, but black and white also works 

Pros

• Includes a reference poster and two additional worksheets 
• Neatly drawn pictures clearly portray emotions

Cons

• None