Free 7th Grade Inside Out Lesson Plan

Topic: Identifying emotions and emotional resilience

Objectives & Outcomes

• Students will be able to identify and name different emotions and understand their associated physical and behavioral cues.
• Students will be able to demonstrate emotional resilience by responding adaptively to their own emotions and the emotions of others.

Materials

• Hand mirrors
• Posters with images of different emotions (e.g. happy, sad, angry, excited, scared)
• Markers or pens

Warm-Up

• Ask students to think about a time when they felt a particular emotion, and share their experiences with the class.
• Encourage students to use specific details (e.g. "I felt excited when my parents surprised me with a trip to the amusement park.")
• As a class, brainstorm a list of emotions and write them on the board. Ask students to share any additional emotions they think should be included.

Direct Instruction

• Introduce the concept of emotional resilience, and explain that it is the ability to cope with and overcome difficult emotions.
• Discuss the different emotions that were identified in the warm-up activity, and provide examples of how each emotion might be experienced in different situations (e.g. anger might be experienced when someone cuts you off in traffic, whereas sadness might be experienced after the death of a loved one).
• Emphasize the importance of understanding and identifying our own emotions, as well as understanding the emotions of others.

Guided Practice:

• Divide the class into small groups, and provide each group with colored construction paper and scissors.
• Ask the groups to cut out a variety of different colored triangles and circles, and provide them with markers or colored pencils to label the shapes with different emotions.
• Have the groups work together to arrange the shapes in a way that represents their understanding of different emotions and how they interact with each other.
• After the groups have had time to arrange their shapes, have them present their creations to the class and explain their choices.

Independent Practice

• Ask the students to choose one of the emotions represented in their group's shape collage and write a short paragraph describing a time they have experienced this emotion in their life.
• Encourage the students to use specific details in their writing to make their emotions and experiences relatable to the rest of the class.

Closure

• Ask the students to share their paragraphs with the class, starting with the emotion they have chosen and then describing their personal experience with it.
• As the students share their work, encourage them to use emotion words and body Language to convey the intensity of their emotion and the impact it has had on them.

Assessment

• Observe the students during the Venn diagram activity and during independent practice to assess their understanding of the five basic emotions and their ability to identify and describe a personal experience with each emotion.
• Evaluate the students' paragraphs for clarity and coherence, as well as their use of emotion words and body language to convey the intensity and impact of the emotion they have chosen.