Lesson Plan 1: Exploring Emotions

Noticing and accepting our emotions is the first step to responding appropriately to them. In this lesson, students will practice recognizing a variety of different emotions, identify when they have felt different emotions, and represent different emotions with drawings.

Grade level: K - 2

Prep time: 10 min

Lesson Duration: 30 min + Optional Extension Activities (30 min)

Learning Outcomes:

It is expected that students will:

• Recognize emotions on other people’s faces
• Identify times when they’ve experienced different emotions
• Represent various emotions with face drawing

Lesson includes:

• Activate, Acquire, and Apply Activities 

Discussion Questions include:

• Do you think everyone feels the same emotions all the time or could we feel different emotions at the same time? Explain your thinking.
• Are there any bad emotions? Why/why not?
• Why do you think it is important to be able to identify our emotions?

Materials required (not included)

• The Way I Feel by Janan Cain
• Aluminum foil pie plates (one per student)
• Sand or shaving cream
• Cut out faces from magazines (Optional)
• Poster paper for collages (Optional)
• The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas (Optional)

NB: Purchase includes access to downloadable resources for 6 months.