Lesson Plan: ​Guess That Emotion (7/8)

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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.

Guess That Emotion

​Age Group: 

• Infants
• Toddlers
• Preschoolers

Objectives:

• Student will practice acting out and identifying emotions using body language and facial expressions 

CDA Competency Standard: ​
II.9.4a

• Candidate helps children experience sympathy/empathy and respect for others
  • a) Helps children understand their feelings and the feelings of others

Materials: 

• A favorite book about emotions  

Procedure: 

1. Read the book to your group and briefly discuss the emotions within the pages as you go. Encourage children, even toddlers, to act out the emotions using body language and facial expressions.
2. Encourage children to interact with one another appropriately to guess and react to different emotions. Example: if the children act sad guide them in recognizing that emotion and showing appropriate reactions.  
3. For infants: Read the story and mimic the emotions for the child, telling them what emotion that is. 

Assessment: 

• Observe and record the children’s interactions and emotion identification. Continue to observe and record over time.​

This is assignment 7 of 8. ​

Worksheet

Emotional Intelligence - Page 15 (7/8) 

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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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