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Lesson Plan: Kindness Challenge (5/8)

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Applying What You Have Learned

On the following pages are lesson plans that can be used to support the development of emotional intelligence in your program planning. The lesson plans are intended to be an optional resource that you may adapt for use in your classroom. The worksheets at the bottom of each lesson plan are part of the required coursework (not optional).

Please read each lesson plan carefully and then answer the question at the bottom of the page.

Kindness Challenge

Age Group:

Preschool
Kindergarten

Objectives:

Children will carry out small acts of kindness for their peers
Children will discuss how these actions made others feel

CDA Competency Standard:
III.9.3a
Candidate promotes children’s sense of belonging in the classroom community.
a) Encourages children’s social interactions.

Materials:

Book: A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead and Erin E. Stead

Procedure:

Read the book A Sick Day for Amos McGee to your class. After the book is finished discuss how the zookeeper did nice things for the animals in his care and how in turn they came to visit him when he was sick.
Challenge your students to complete as many small acts of kindness for their classmates as they can. Give them examples of small acts of kindness and talk about how they may make their peers feel.

Assessment:

Observe and assess the children as they complete the challenge. Record your observations and the children’s identification of certain emotions in others.

This is assignment 5 of 8.

Worksheet

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Lesson Plan: Kindness Challenge

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1. How does this activity help children identify emotions in others?

It gives children experiences to make others happy or joyful and to experience that firsthand.It gives teachers a day where children are nice to one another and are not arguing as much.It gives children a lesson in sharing and caring for the classroom and the people in it.

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1. How does this activity help children identify emotions in others?

It gives children experiences to make others happy or joyful and to experience that firsthand.

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1. How does this activity help children identify emotions in others?

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1. Course Agenda
2. Emotional vs Cognitive
3. Emotional Intelligence Important?
4. Behavior
5. EQ versus IQ (1/8)
6. Social Interactions

7. Education
8. Supporting Emotional Intelligence
9. Literature
10. Identifying Emotions (2/8)
11. Character Emotions (3/8)
12. Tell me, Show me! (4/8)

13. Kindness Challenge (5/8)
14. Making Faces (6/8)
15. Guess That Emotion (7/8)
16. End of Course Quiz (8/8)
17. Course Evaluation Form
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Lesson Plan: Kindness Challenge​ (5/8)

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Kindness Challenge

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Lesson Plan: Kindness Challenge (5/8)