Basic Emotions

Subject: ELA (English Language Arts), SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)

Lesson Length: 45 mins - 1 hour

Topic: Emotions, Understanding Feelings

Grade Level: 1, 2

Standards / Framework:

Brief Description: Students will display basic emotions they can feel.

Know Before You Start: Students should be familiar with the six basic emotions: sadness, happiness, fear, anger, surprise, and disgust.

Hook:

Ask students:
- “How do you feel today?”
- “What are emotions?”
- “Has there ever been a time you felt _____?”
Ask students to show a face that looks happy, sad, angry, frustrated, excited.

Activity:

As a class, have students discuss the six basic emotions and act out what someone might look like and sound like when experiencing those emotions.
Have students discuss example situations where those emotions might occur.
Have students select an event in their life that made them feel a certain emotion.
Have students share about the event and their emotions with a partner.
Using the sample comic as a model, have students create a comic displaying the event they identified and have the character show the emotion the student felt during that event.

Closure:

Have students share their comics with the class or in small groups.
Have students explain what happened during the event and what made them feel that particular emotion.
Emphasize the importance of understanding our emotions and what makes us feel a certain way.

Differentiation:

Resources:

Comic to print or display: Comic.
Books:
- Even Superheroes Have Bad Days by Shelly Becker
- The Way I Feel by Janan Cain
- The Sour Grape by Jory John
Movie: Inside Out by Pixar
Video: Emotions for Kids

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