Weathering Emotions

Jasmine Taylor

Tier 1

Lesson Plan

Weathering Emotions Lesson Plan

Students will explore how emotions can be represented as different types of weather, learning to understand and express their feelings creatively.

This lesson helps young learners recognize and articulate their emotions, fostering self-awareness and emotional self-regulation in a fun and relatable way.

Audience

Pre-K to Grade 2

Time

45-60 minutes

Approach

Interactive discussions, creative activities, and reflective sharing.

Materials

Weathering Emotions Lesson Plan, and Weathering Emotions Slide Deck

Prep

Teacher Preparation

10 minutes

Review the Weathering Emotions Lesson Plan for an overall understanding of the lesson steps.
Familiarize yourself with the Weathering Emotions Slide Deck to guide visual discussion.
Prepare visual aids or cut-outs representing various weather conditions (sunny, cloudy, rainy, stormy) and corresponding emotions.

Step 1

Introduction and Group Discussion

10 minutes

Introduce the emotion-weather concept and ask students to share how they feel today.
Discuss different types of weather and ask students to match weather to emotions (e.g., sunny = happy, rainy = sad).
Use visual aids to illustrate the associations.

Step 2

Creative Activity

20 minutes

Provide art materials (paper, crayons, markers) for students to draw their own 'weather map' of emotions.
Encourage creativity: how does their 'emotional weather' look? What weather best describes how they feel?
Walk around to facilitate and support students' creative expressions.

Step 3

Reflection and Sharing

10 minutes

Invite students to share their artwork with the class, explaining their chosen weather-emotion mapping.
Lead a reflective discussion on how emotions can change just like the weather.
Reinforce the idea that all emotions are normal and that it's important to understand and express them.

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Slide Deck

Welcome to Weathering Emotions

Let's explore how different types of weather can represent our feelings. How do you feel today?

Introduce the concept of 'Weathering Emotions'. Explain that just as the weather changes, our feelings change too. Use images of weather (sunny, cloudy, rainy, stormy) to evoke different emotions.

Weather and Feelings

Which weather do you think looks happy? Which one looks sad?

Show visual aids of various weather types. Ask guiding questions: What kind of weather makes you feel happy? What kind of weather feels a bit gloomy? Let the children share.

Create Your Weather Map

Draw your own 'weather map' of emotions. Show us the weather that matches how you're feeling!

Display an image of a blank weather map and encourage kids to think about what weather represents their current emotion. Walk around to help them start sketching their 'emotional weather'.

Sharing and Reflection

Let's talk about how your emotional weather might change throughout the day. What can we do when it's stormy?

Encourage children to share their artwork. Facilitate a discussion on how emotions can change like the weather, reaffirming that every feeling is normal.

Wrap-Up

Remember, emotions change. Let's take care of our feelings like we take care of the weather!

Conclude the session by summarizing the lesson's main point - emotions, like weather, change and that's okay. Remind the students they can always express how they feel.