Lesson Plan Managing Emotions

Managing Our Emotions

Ways to Control Them

It is a very important life skill to be able to manage our emotions. We all need it in certain situations, for example like at school.

• Use nice words to express your feelings

• Practicing Mindfulness In the classroom

• Pause and breathe

• Ask yourself how you feel

• Practice Using Words

• Think about your feelings, sit them and let them be.

• ​Ask yourself what you need, Say or list what could help you move forward

  For instance, many kids will realize that they cry when they’re sad. But not everyone cries, some people get very quiet or even show anger instead.

Surpressing our emotions can be good for the short term, but it doesn´t make them go away, they just bubble up in your brain until you bubble up again.

Reappraisal is about thinking the situation out in your mind, allowing you to do it calmly. They teach kids this because we want them to accept their emotions and acknowledging but not letting control their actions.

Regulating Emotions

Multiple Choice

You are playing at recess and a kid pushes you off the swings.

• You push them back and kick them and start a fight

• You start crying and run away

• You tell the teacher and you and the student talk it out

• You run to the teacher and make up a fake story making it sound worse

Multiple Choice

Your friend starts to talk about you behind your back and starting rumors about you... What you should do?

• You go up to them and start a fight

• You start talking about them and starting rumors about them

• You move schools and be sad and start over a new life

• You inform your counselor and you find ways to manage it

Multiple Choice

You had a bad day and at the end of the day you've been holding your emotions in and you don´t feel like doing any work

• Take a secret nap and don´t listen

• Breathe calm down and use the bathroom as a break

• Whine to your teacher and go to office

• You don´t allow other classmates to concentrate

Multiple Choice

What is Emotion?

• Feelings we experience when we feel happy/sad/angry/axcited

• When we get mad at people and start fights

Multiple Select

Which of the following are ways to control our emotions

• Take a break to breath and calm down

• Find ways to entertain yourself

• Blame it on your friends

• Talk to a friend or family and express