Activity: Practice Identifying Feelings of Others
Objective:
to inspect in detail
Materials:
Supporting Media:
- Totetude Situational Feelings [Microsoft Office - OOXML - Word Document, 133 KB]
Prep:
- Print the Totetude Situational Feelings.
Instructions:
- Learners brainstorm times when they personally were happy (pizza for dinner, birthday party, new pet, first day of school, etc.).
- Discuss their actions, facial expressions, body language, and sounds they made when they were happy.
- Then learners brainstorm times when they personally were sad (Turnips for dinner, thunderstorm, broke a toy, friend moved away, etc.).
- Discuss their actions, facial expressions, body language, and sounds they made when they were sad.
- Read through the Totetude Situational Feelings.
- Ask learners to either smile or frown depending on how they would feel if this situation happened to them.
- Call on learners to justify the face they chose.
- Conclude by saying that it is important to respect others and how they feel.
Extension:
- Educator asks, "Do animals have feelings? How do they show their feelings?"
Reflections:
- I am able to examine feelings of other people.
- I am able to tell/retell stories or everyday experiences.
- I am able to express my feelings and emotions.
TAC-SK0009
Time:
- Prep
- Engagement
- Cleanup
Location:
- Indoors
Meta:
- Theme
- Feeling
- Multiple Intelligence
- Interpersonal
- Bloom Taxonomy
- Evaluate
- Instructional Strategy
- Interactive Instruction
- Subject
- Social Sciences
Did you try this activity ? How did it go ?