Category 2: Identifying Feelings pg 31
Using your Classroom Meetings That Matter book to teach the following lesson:
Empathy for Strangers and Friends pg 32
Handling Anger in Healthy Ways pg 36
Assertive or Aggressive? What's the difference? pg 40
Courage pg 45
Using your Classroom Meetings That Matter book to teach the following lesson:
Empathy for Strangers and Friends pg 32
Handling Anger in Healthy Ways pg 36
Assertive or Aggressive? What's the difference? pg 40
Courage pg 45
RESOURCES
The Power of Empathy
This video using a lecture about empathy that is animated. It explains it the difference between sympathy and empathy very well! It mentions "I had a miscarriage at least you can get pregnant" but it just mentions it. That is all use your discretion. Controlling Emotions
This video uses angry birds to discuss anger and how to deal with it better. It is pretty funny! The Feelings Game
This is an online game where you match the face someone makes with the feeling. Simple but could be good review. This could be used whole group or individually. http://www.do2learn.com/games/feelingsgame/ Auti-Sim (Autistic Simulation Game)
A pretty amazing, first person game that shows the world through the eyes of an autistic child.You walk around a playground. Make sure your volume is on!! You can have students play individually or whole class and have students answer questions while you are playing. You have to download the player to run it. Don't worry its fast and easy. http://gamejolt.com/games/strategy-sim/auti-sim/12761/ |
Startempathy.org
http://startempathy.org/videos A website with a TON of videos about empathy. Really great resource. One of the videos, Through My Eyes is an example and is below! Through My Eyes
A poem about what is empathy and how to see things through other people's eyes. Identifying Anger
The worksheet below allows students to identify what anger emotion they had in a situation and how they feel after the situation.
Aggressive vs Assertive
The lesson below have a bunch of aggressive vs assertive scenarios to use with your students.
Be an Empathetic Listener
This worksheet allows students to role play with others and practice being empathetic listeners.
Science of Smiling
This video connected science to feelings. It shows how being more kind and smiling more can even lead to good health! Video Game Creators Using Apps to teach Empathy
This is an NPR story (5 mins long) that talks about how video game creators are making first person stimulation games that teach students empathy. Good for a discussion. http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/11/20/246395383/video-game-creators-are-using-apps-to-teach-empathy |
Learner Profile connections
Identifying feelings connect with caring. Students who are in touch with their feelings are caring and more emphatic learners. Our goal is to have a caring and respectful classroom environment,
Identify feelings connect with reflective. Students are able to think about what they do and say about about what they are learning. They are able to learn from their mistakes and they are aware of the effect of their words and actions to others. By identifying their feelings will be able to treat others with respect and understand how their actions affect others.
Identify feelings connected with being balanced. Students show awareness of emotions and are able to exercise control over their feelings.