Feelings & Emotions

Links checked on 1/2/2016

1. Elementary
   1. Emotion Walk - Get the students thinking about moving their bodies, and about clearly understanding the ways their bodies can move, and the ways they do move in various situations.
   2. Feelings Charade - Help open up communication with and among students about their feelings.
   3. The Heart Story - Encourages students to consider the effect of "put-downs" and to think about how to express "put-ups".
   4. Listening Well - Grades 3-5 - Being able to listen to people well is an important skill that can help us prevent conflicts and solve conflicts that do happen in a way that leaves everybody satisfied.
   5. Life, Loss and Grief - Grades K-2 - Unit Plan Masters of Disaster: In the Aftermath [by the American National Red Cross]
   6. Life, Loss and Grief - Grades 3-5 - Unit Plan Masters of Disaster: In the Aftermath ; by the American National Red Cross
   7. Social Skills for Elementary School Children: Hot Frogs Activity - Activity used in groups to assist elementary school children in identifying and naming feelings.
   8. The Solution Square: Strategies for Conflict Resolution - Uses literature as a springboard for learning about conflict-resolution strategies.
2. Middle/ High School
   1. Adolescent - Social Skills for Middle School Students - Lesson plans
   2. Brain-Based Learning and Feelings - A reading passage, a KWLH chart and an anticipation/reaction chart for questions before and after the reading.
   3. I-Messages and the Assertiveness Line - Useful in dealing with problems that come up with friends and family, people who are likely to care about our feelings.
   4. Managing Feelings - Categorize coping strategies as positive, negative, neutral and time-out behaviors.
   5. Metaphors for Expressing Feelings - Examine how feelings are described and expressed in a poem.