February 2021
Cross-curricular lesson about emotions
School: Liceul Tehnologic Octavian Goga Jibou, Romania
expressing emotion RO.docx
The lesson was done online using GOOGLE Classroom.
Teacher: Nagy Melinda
Class: 5 C
Title of the lesson: Emotions in our Life
Aims:
-Recognizing a variety of emotions experienced in relation to oneself and others
-Giving positive feedback in relationships with others
Description of the activities:
Activity 1: Introduction
Emotion is a person's experience of an event. All emotions are natural and necessary, even if some are lived or experienced as pleasant, and others as unpleasant! They help us to live a life full of special experiences, but also to defend ourselves, to make decisions or to set our limits. Emotions harmonize us with the environment and with ourselves.
You're getting ready to go on a trip. Choose from the table all the emotions you will take with you in your backpack.
| happiness | empathy | joy |
| fear | love | discouragement |
| enthusiasm | guilt | panic |
| anger | appreciation | gratefulness |
| disgust | shame | sadness |
| surprise | pride | hope |
Activity 2: Reflection
Do you think that the emotions you have prepared in your backpack will be enough?
How did you decide what emotions you take with you?
Which of the emotions do you find most pleasant? But more unpleasant?
What do you think is the role of these emotions in your life? What about your colleagues' lives?
Activity 3: Practice
The journey has begun! For each of the following situations, choose the right one from your emotional backpack! Write down your choices in your notebook, then compare your answers with those of your colleagues! What do you notice?
| Situation | Emotions from your backpack |
| You're in the woods and you hear a growl | |
| You won the running competition | |
| You tasted food that looked strange | |
| Tomorrow you will take a math test | |
| Your friend helped you do the geography project | |
| You received an unexpected gift from your mother | |
| You want to climb the climbing board, but you don't dare | |
| You had an argument with your best friend | |
| Your classmate gave you a nickname | |
| The bus broke down. The trip is cancelled | |
Activity 4: Evaluation
1. What did you learn about the world of emotions?
2. What did you learn about yourself and your emotions?
3. What did you learn about your colleagues?
Osnovna šola Litija, Slovenia
Lesson about emotions.docx
Agrupamento de Escolas de Idães, Portugal
Teacher: Susana Pereira
lesson-plan-emotions.pdf
Consell de Cent Secondary School, Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)
Lesson: Expressing emotions
Time: 1 hour
Objective: Talking about feelings and emotions and how to express them.
Activity 1: How do you feel when…?
The teacher points to different pictures and asks students how they feel in different situations. Later, students ask other students how they feel in each situation and share their feelings. For example:
How do you feel when your friend doesn’t invite you to a party?
How would you feel if you get into trouble because your brothers or sisters told your parents that you did something wrong?
How do you feel when your crush talks to you?
Activity 2: Dialogue substitution/Role plays
The teacher distributes different dialogues about feelings or emotions and students have to read them while filling in the blanks with the feelings they choose.
Activity 3: Would you rather…?
Students have probably played this game with their friends before. The teacher provides 2 positive or negative things. For example:
“Would you rather feel/be… or… ?”
Activity 4: Picture prompt
The teacher shows different pictures with people who have strong emotions. Students shout out some feeling words that they see and they make some guesses as to why the people feel the way they do. The teacher encourages them to give advice too and may ask these questions:
What was happening in the picture?
How did they feel?
What thoughts did they have? Were they positive and happy thoughts? Were they negative and unhappy thoughts? What could they do to make themselves feel better? Could they change their minds and think happier thoughts?
Activity 5: Agony aunt problem
The teacher provides problems that are heavy on the feelings and students give advice to make negative feelings go away. They may speak about their personal experiences.
Activity 6: Thinking about things that make me happy
Students make a list of things that happened during their week that made them feel happy.
Hilstad skole, Norway
Lesson plan – February
Topic: Emotions
Age: 12-15
School: Hilstad, Norway
Teacher: Siri Nepaas
Title: Emotions and music
Subjects: Music, drama, language
Aims:
• recognize how music can prompt different emotions and how music impacts us
Warming up:
• Think of your favourite music right now? Why is this your favourite song? How does the song make you feel?
- Mind map: Draw a mind map expressing different emotions
- Listen: Play different songs: How do these songs affect us? Which emotions do the express?
Songs:
- Requiem, Mozart
- Happy, Pharrel Williams
- Go down Moses
- Hakuna Matata, Lion King
- Air, Bach
- From the dining table, Harry Styles
- Try, Colbie Calliat
- Theatre sport game:
• 3 persons improvising a short dialogue. The audience decides who the are, where they are and what they are going to talk about.
• They repeat the dialogue three times, each time with a new background music
- Survivor, Destiny`s child, 2. Symphony no 5 – The Destiny Symphony: Beethoven, 3. Walking on sunshine, Katrina & The Waves)
- Rap: Create a short rap expressing how you feel right now. Choose a suitable «beat» from Garage Band to accompany your rap.