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Feeling Faces: Exploring Emotions

Lesson Plan

Feeling Faces: Exploring Emotions

Understand and express emotions

In this lesson, students will create masks that represent different emotions and engage in role-playing activities to explore how these emotions affect interactions with others. This lesson is important as it helps students develop emotional awareness and empathy, which are crucial for their social and emotional development. By understanding and expressing emotions, students can improve their communication skills and build better relationships with peers.

Audience

2nd Grade Students

Time

1 hour

Approach

Understand and express emotions

Materials

Paper plates, Markers, Craft sticks, Glue, Scissors, Printable emotion cards, and Role-playing scenarios

Step 1

Introduction

10 mins

  • Begin with a brief discussion about emotions and why they are important.
  • Ask students to name some emotions they know and how they express them.

Step 2

Mask Creation

20 mins

  • Provide each student with a paper plate, markers, and craft sticks.
  • Instruct students to create a mask representing an emotion of their choice.
  • Assist students with cutting and gluing as needed.

Step 3

Role-Playing Activity

20 mins

  • Divide students into small groups and provide each group with a set of printable emotion cards and role-playing scenarios.
  • Instruct students to use their masks and cards to act out the scenarios, focusing on expressing the emotions involved.
  • Encourage students to discuss how the emotions affect the interactions in the scenarios.

Step 4

Closure

10 mins

  • Gather students and discuss what they learned about emotions and interactions.
  • Ask students to share how they felt during the role-playing activity and what they learned about expressing emotions.
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Worksheet

Printable Emotion Cards

These cards are used for role-playing activities to help students express and understand different emotions.




Happy







Sad







Angry







Surprised







Scared







Excited







Confused







Calm




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Worksheet

Role-Playing Scenarios

This worksheet provides scenarios for students to act out using their emotion masks, helping them explore how emotions affect interactions.

A friend lost their favorite toy. How do you comfort them?








You won a game. How do you share your excitement with others?








Someone took your seat. How do you express your feelings?








You see a friend looking sad. How do you approach them?








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