Subject: ELA (English Language Arts), SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)
Lesson Length: 45 mins - 1 hour
Topic: Emotions, Understanding Feelings
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:
- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.
- Allow students to use the voiceover to read their comics aloud.
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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