Self Awareness

Topic: self-awarDirectionseness

Objectives & Outcomes

• Students will understand what self-awareness means and be able to demonstrate self-awareness by identifying their own emotions and those of others.

Materials

• Images of people displaying different emotions (e.g. happy, sad, angry, surprised)
• Handouts with different emotions and their definitions

Warm-up

• Ask students to think about a time when they felt a certain emotion and explain what happened to make them feel that way.
• Have a few students share their experiences and engage the class in a discussion about emotions and how they can be helpful or harmful.

Direct Instruction

• Introduce the concept of emotions and explain that our feelings can influence the way we behave and think.
• Use the handouts to teach the names of different emotions and have students practice recognizing them in themselves and others.
• role-play situations where it might be helpful to recognize and manage different emotions and encourage students to try different strategies to cope with their emotions.

Guided Practice

• Divide the class into small groups and give each group a set of emotion face cards or pictures.
• Have the groups work together to match the emotion cards to the correct descriptions and discuss why each match is correct.
• Afterwards, review the correct matches with the whole class and discuss any issues or questions that arose during the exercise.

Independent Practice

• Give each student a set of emotion face cards or pictures.
• Ask the students to work independently to match the emotion cards to the correct descriptions and write down the correct matches.
• Afterwards, have the students present their matches to the class and explain why each match is correct.

Closure

• Have the students share one thing they learned about emotions during the lesson.
• Remind the students that it is important to be able to recognize and label emotions in ourselves and others, because it helps us understand and deal with our feelings.

Assessment

• Observe the students during the independent practice activity and take note of which emotions they were able to identify and label in the photos.
• Ask the students to reflect on their own emotions during the guided practice activity and then share with the class what they learned about themselves.