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.
Audience
Time
Approach
Materials
Prep
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

Slide Deck
Emotion Detectives: Clue-Finding
Happy Clues
Sad Clues
Angry Clues
Surprised Clues
Scared Clues
Detective Practice: Guess the Feeling

Activity


Game


Cool Down

