Lesson 6: Understanding Perspectives

Why This Lesson Matters

This lesson continues to build students’ perspective-taking ability by examining scenarios where people have different feelings about the same thing. Perspective taking is a critical skill for working in groups, making friends, and successfully resolving interpersonal conflicts.

Objectives

Students will be able to:

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

• Determine whether others’ feelings have changed, in response to scenarios

Lesson Concepts

• People can have different feelings about the same situation, and their feelings can change.

• Empathy is feeling or understanding what someone else is feeling.

• Thinking about others’ perspectives helps you have empathy for them.