EDUC 2220- Educational Technology Lesson Plan

Today I feel.
Leslie Ferrell
Preschool, ages 3-4
Common Core Standards:
Recognize and identify own emotions and the emotions of
others.
Communicate a range of emotions in socially accepted
ways.
Lesson Summary:
This lesson is designed to help children understand and express
different emotions. The goal is that they can recognize emotions
in themselves and others and better communicate with adults.
Through a series of activities the children will see many different
emotions expressed and the names for these expressions. The
children will say the names of the emotions correlated with the
correct picture/expression.
Estimated Duration:
This lesson will take place over 2 school weeks, 10 days total.
There will be daily activities that reinforce the lesson. Each
activity will take approximately 10-20 minutes

Commentary:
I plan on having flashcards with pictures of faces expressing
different emotions to show during group time on the first day.
We will review these cards and act out the expressions on them.
We will discuss that we can share or emotions with others and
that we are going to be learning about them all month. I also
want to teach the ASL signs for the emotions we are learning
about. I believe the biggest struggle in this lesson will be testing
their knowledge and seeing if they are truly understanding. I will
be testing throughout the month to log individuals progress.

Instructional Procedures:
Day 1:
During group time after the children are settled I will hold up
flash card showing faces expressing the emotions:
Happy
Sad
Fear
Excited
Sick
Tired
Angry
We will go through these and discuss the names and imitate the
expression of each emotion as a group.
How does this picture look, happy or sad? (allow time for
children to answer)

o Happy! Can you show me a happy face? (allow time

for children to dramatize)
Go through each card and ask similar open ended questions
After we go through these flash cards we will read Smile, Poutpout Fish, a book that shows a wide range of emotions and a
friend helping a friend who is feeling sad to feel happy again.
During the reading ask students What makes you
feel.?
o Allow students time to answer
o The reading will take about 15 minutes if all of the
children respond to these questions
Day 2:
Allow children to have time on the ipad to play Daniel Tigers
Grr-ific Feelings
About 10 minutes each. If there are many children watching a
student playing ask open ended questions while playing about
the feelings that they are interacting with on screen
Day 3:
Make masks with the kids. They can choose between masks that
express different emotions. As they are creating their mask ask
the students individually what emotion they are making. What
makes them feel that emotion.
Paper plates
Glue
Eyes, eyes that look happy, sad, worried/afraid, excited,
angry
Noses
Mouths, mouths that look happy, sad, worried, excited,
angry
Yarn for hair
During group time review the emotion cards and begin going
over the ASL signs for the emotions. Repeat this everyday
during group time. Also through out the day use feelings words

along with the sign for it.

Day 4:
Continue to ask open ended questions about feelings while using
signs. Encourage students to communicate their feelings to other
students during play. An example could be 'I feel happy when
you play with me,' or 'can you please not take my toy, that makes
me feel angry '.
During quiet time (before nap) have a variety of books available
to class to look through that discuss emotions.
Day 5:
Continue asking and encouraging
Using teacher tube watch videos about different emotional
reactions. Discuss what the people in the video felt and what led
them to feel this way.
Day 6:
During group time, make a language chart of 'what makes you
feel better when you're sad, sick or angry'. Write down all the
answers the children give onto the poster
After the chart is made discuss how we can help our friends feel
better by doing these things.
Day 7:
Use 'go animate' to make videos about how we can communicate
our feelings and help each other feel better. Split children into
groups of 3. One at a time allow a group to sit with the teacher
and create a short video. Teacher can assist by typing and asking
open ended questions to students to help them create a story.
Watch videos as a class later that day. (It may be more realistic to
write 3 or 4 stories about different emotions, let the group pick
one and then each group can pick out characters and voices
etc...)

Day 8 - 10:
Use storybird to create a story as a class. Using a projector,
project the web page for the class to see.
Choose a picture. Allow students time to choose. Once you have
decided
Ask what is happening in the picture. Is it a happy picture? Sad?
Angry? Excited? Why? What happened before this picture? How
did we get here? Etc
Write down on white board everything they say.
Discuss with students how to organize the information
( beginning middle end). Type into app.
Pick one more picture and repeat. Tomorrow continue this
project. Finished story should be 6 pages with 6 pictures. Print
and read to students. Send home to parents.
Pre-Assessment:
In order to pre-assess my students I will need to pay close
attention to the language they are already using. 'I don't like that'
and 'give me my toy' are examples of what I would look for. This
means that they are already learning/developing the skills of
communicating emotional needs. I will also be looking for
students who use their bodies to get what they want (hitting,
pushing, kicking, sitting on top of someone). This shows me that
they do not know how to communicate their feelings and needs.
I will also sit down with individuals and go through flash cards
of faces expressing different feelings and ask them to tell me
what they see.
Scoring Guidelines:
During my assessment I will be looking for use of the
vocabulary of feelings words. I will also be looking for
ability to communicate without resorting to violence or

screaming.
Post-Assessment:
I will observe the childrens interactions with each other and
other adults, listen for feelings speech that makes me angry
please stop, I dont like that I like playing with you, it makes
me happy etc etc I will also look for children choosing to
used their words instead of yelling and hitting.
Scoring Guidelines:
Children this young are not graded, this is more about
developing rather than retaining knowledge. If I observe a
child who clearly does not understand how to communicate
their feelings with words I will spend one on one time with
them to continue this lesson.

Differentiated Instructional Support

Describe how instruction can be differentiated (changed or
altered) to meet the needs of gifted or accelerated students:
If there are students who are already understand how to
communicate their feelings I will focus with them on how to
respect their friends feelings. When your friend tells you that he
feels angry, what can you do?
Discuss additional activities you could do to meet the needs of
students who might be struggling with the material:
There are many apps for ipads that could be used to help
children struggling, I also will have different art projects
throughout the 2 weeks.
Extension

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/getting-emotionallearning-about-feelings.shtml
This is a site that has a lesson plan called learning about
feelings, parents can reference this to assist their children in
learning.
https://www.pinterest.com/alissalicht/sign-language-in-theclassroom/
This pinterest page has many resources about ASL feelings
words. Parents can use this to practice at home with their
children.
Homework Options and Home Connections
Parents can practice with their children at home if they like, but
children this young should not be assigned homework.
Interdisciplinary Connections
This lesson overlaps in many areas. In particular it overlaps with
language and literacy standards.
The standard this lesson meets is under the topic expressive
language. The student will speak audibly and express thoughts,
feelings, and ideas clearly.
This lesson also involves using fine motor skills, improving
social interaction by working together and others.

Materials and Resources:

For
teachers

Poster board, black markers, paper plates, pictures

of variety of facial features depicting different
emotions, ipad or desktop, smart board (I say

projector in the lesson but a smart board would

work better) 10 or 15 books about feelings. Flash
cards with faces and feelings, knowledge of ASL
signs of feelings words.

For students

Ipad or desktop at school, parent participation.

Key Vocabulary
Happy, sad, angry, excited, scared, sick, tired. Feeling, emotions