Emotions Jr. Lesson Plan: Social Emotional Learning
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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP Jr. topic Emotions, and supports students in recognizing and responding appropriately to emotions. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.
Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Display this image from the movie (timestamp: 0:48):
Ask students how they think Moby is feeling in each picture. Prompt them to share how they know.
Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE
- Play the Emotions movie.
- Click the pause button each time a question appears in Annie’s Notebook and discuss it as a class. Then play to see how Annie answers it.
TIP: The pause button turns red to remind you to pause.
Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS
Students take the Easy Quiz or Hard Quiz, demonstrating what they learned about the topic while applying essential literacy skills.
Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND
Students express what they learned about emotions while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student or grade-level needs.
- Draw About It: Draw how you can cheer up a friend who is sad.
- Activity: Write the emotion that each event would make you feel. Show how strongly you would feel that emotion.
- Talk About It: Write clues your body gives for each emotion.
- Write About It: Write about a way to calm down when you feel nervous.
More to Explore
Feelings Unit: Continue to build understanding around emotions by exploring more BrainPOP Jr. topics.
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