My Emotions

Preparation

Students are expected to:

• Be familiar with using Merge Cubes to view AR content in CoSpaces.

Teachers should make sure that:

• All hardware has been charged and sanitised.
• Student Devices have the most recent updated version of CoSpaces installed.
• Slide Deck has been checked and the teacher has accessibility.
• Students have been divided into pairs or groups and names are written on Slide 7.

Suggested Rotation Format:

Please note: number of activities is a suggestion, teachers may choose to leave one activity out depending on student capabilities. 

Learning Sequence

Introduction

• Watch the video on Slide 2 of the My Emotions Teaching Deck. Pause the video after each emotion (0:25 for happy, 1:05 for sad, 1:44 for angry, 2:21 for disgusted and 2:56 for scared)  and ask students to decide what emotion the main character was feeling, and think about a time they have felt that emotion themselves.

• Explain to students that during this lesson they will be exploring their emotions through various activities, and spending time in a small group with the teacher or teaching assistant to engage in a game using an emotions Merge Cube.

Development

• Talk through the following activities with students: 
  • Emotion Charades: students pick out an emotion from a box of Emotion Cards and act it out to their partner/group. 
  • Emotion Collage: provide students with old magazines/newspapers and a copy of the Emotion Collage Template. Students create their collage by cutting and pasting images/colours/photos they find that portray each emotion. 
  • Emotions Puppet Show: set up a play area with puppets and a stage for students to act out different emotions. 

• My Emotions Merge Cube: in a small group, view the My Emotions Merge Cube using the CoSpaces app. Talk through the scenarios from the Emotion Scenarios document with the group, and ask students to find the emotion that the story made them feel. Ask students to talk about what they do when they feel sad/happy/angry/scared/sick. 

• Send students off into groups to complete the activities. Use Slide 7 of the My Emotions Teaching Deck to show groups and scan the QR code in CoSpaces to open the My Emotions Merge Cube. Work with one small group at a time to view the Merge Cube. 

• Rotate through the activities every 10 minutes.

Conclusion

• After packing up, choose two or three students to share their collage/charade/puppet show with the class.
   
• Use the following questions as prompts for the chosen students:
  • What did you do to show your emotion?
  • Do you enjoy this emotion? Why/why not?
  • Why do you think it’s important to learn about your emotions?
     
• Alternative conclusion activity: play ‘celebrity heads’ using emotions. Choose one student to sit at the front of the class, and stick an emotion card above their head. The class then takes turns giving them clues about the emotion.