Lesson Plan

Detective Emotions Plan

Students will learn to recognize and describe basic emotions by examining facial expressions and body language, then apply this knowledge to identify feelings in themselves and peers.

Building emotion-recognition skills fosters empathy, social awareness, and positive peer relationships by giving students tools to understand and connect with others.

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Teacher Preparation

10 minutes

Step 1

Launch the Detective Mission

5 minutes

Step 2

Clue-Finding Slide Investigation

10 minutes

Step 3

Partner Picture-Card Detective Work

8 minutes

Step 4

Whole-Class Guess the Feeling Game

10 minutes

Step 5

Cool-Down & Assessment: Emotion Journal Sketch

7 minutes

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Emotion Detectives: Clue-Finding

Happy Clues

Sad Clues

Angry Clues

Surprised Clues

Scared Clues

Detective Practice: Guess the Feeling

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Game

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Cool Down

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Emotion Detectives

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