Emotional Intelligence for the Classroom

This is a guide for teachers on how to utilize Critikid's Emotional Intelligence course in their classroom.

There are two main approaches:

1. If each student has access to their own device, you get an account for each student to work through the videos and activities at their own pace. Group discounts for schools and homeschool co-op groups are available – contact me for more information at [email protected].
2. If students do not have access to their own devices, but you are able to show videos to the whole class, you can buy one pass. Students can work together to answer the accompanying questions.

Here are some activities you can do to extend the lessons:

• Feelings Charades – A student acts out an emotion and their partner has to guess what it is.
• Emoji Mix and Match – Make parts of emojis (the eyes and mouth) expressing different emotions, and then mix and match them to see what feelings they express when combined.
• Feelings Chart - Show students the “How are you feeling?” image (below), then describe a situation and ask them to guess what feeling they would have. For example, “You get to school and realize you forgot your homework.” Different kids will have different feelings, and this will be a chance for them to explore those differences.
• Feelings Thermometer Game - Draw a feelings thermometer on the board and pass around a basket of different feeling words on slips of paper, such as calm, annoyed, overwhelmed, joyful, furious, etc. Then have the students take turns placing the words (using tape) on the thermometer. Encourage the class to discuss where the feelings fit on the thermometer and why.
• Feelings Check In - Post the “How are you feeling?” image (below) on the door of the classroom. As kids enter the class have them point to the feeling they have had the most that day.
• Feelings Blender - Explore mixed emotions with a feelings blender. Cut out the emojis on the feelings chart and pass them out so that each student gets one. Now draw a blender on the board. Call out two students at a time, at random, and have them bring their two feelings up to the blender to be mixed (they tape them to the blender). Have the children discuss what the two feelings together are and what they would feel like. Do we have a name for that feeling? If not what should we call it? For example, if one child brings up the feeling happy and another brings up the feeling nervous, then together they might make excited or something like it.

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