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Healing Through Play

Lesson Plan

Healing Through Play

CBT for biological parent trauma

This lesson uses a game-based approach to help two second-grade girls process trauma related to their biological parents. By engaging in a picture-based activity, the students will explore their feelings and thoughts in a safe and supportive environment. This lesson is important as it provides a gentle and interactive way for the students to express themselves and begin healing, using strategies that are accessible given their reading and spelling levels.

Audience

Two second grade girls

Time

30 mins

Approach

Game-Based Learning, Trauma-Informed Teaching, Inquiry-Based Learning

Materials

Printable Emotion Cards, and Emotion Matching Game Instructions

Step 1

Introduction

5 mins

  • Welcome the students and explain that today they will play a game to help them understand and talk about their feelings.
  • Briefly introduce the concept of emotions and how everyone experiences them.

Step 2

Emotion Matching Game

20 mins

  • Provide each student with a set of printable emotion cards.
  • Explain the rules of the game: they will match pictures of faces showing different emotions with scenarios or feelings they might have experienced.
  • Encourage the students to talk about a time they felt each emotion as they make matches.
  • Use prompts to guide them, such as "Can you tell me about a time you felt happy/sad/angry?"

Step 3

Closure

5 mins

  • Gather the students and ask them to share one thing they learned about emotions today.
  • Reinforce the idea that it's okay to feel different emotions and that talking about them can help.
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Worksheet

Printable Emotion Cards

These cards are used in the Emotion Matching Game to help students identify and discuss different emotions. Each card features a face showing a specific emotion.




Happy







Sad







Angry







Surprised







Scared







Confused







Excited







Calm




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Emotion Matching Game Instructions

Instructions for the Emotion Matching Game, guiding the teacher on how to facilitate the activity and engage students in discussing emotions.

Emotion Matching Game Instructions

  1. Objective: Help students identify and discuss different emotions through a matching game.

  2. Materials Needed:

    • Printable Emotion Cards

  3. Game Setup:

    • Shuffle the emotion cards and place them face down on the table.
    • Explain to the students that they will take turns picking a card and matching it with a scenario or feeling they have experienced.

  4. Game Play:

    • Each student picks a card and describes a time they felt the emotion shown.
    • Encourage open discussion and sharing among the students.
    • Use prompts to guide the discussion, such as "What happened to make you feel this way?" or "How did you handle this emotion?"

  5. Conclusion:

    • After all cards have been matched, discuss as a group what was learned about emotions and how they can be expressed and managed.
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