Lesson 5: Identifying Others’ Feelings

Why This Lesson Matters

Identifying others’ feelings using physical, verbal, and situational clues is essential to empathy development. Understanding that people can have different feelings in similar situations, and that feelings can change, helps students develop empathy and perspective-taking skills. Accurately identifying others’ feelings helps students make friends and avoid conflicts.

Objectives

Students will be able to:

• Name a variety of feelings

• Determine others’ feelings using physical, verbal, and situational clues

• Label their own feelings as the same as or different from others’ feelings

Lesson Concepts

• Looking for clues on a person’s face or body and in the situation helps you notice and understand how that person is feeling.

• People can have different feelings about the same situation.

• All feelings are natural.