Sel Lesson Plan

Kindergarten
Facial Expressions Lesson Plan: Self-Awareness
Standards
● AL.1.PK.B1 Demonstrate a willingness to participate in new and challenging
experiences
● AL.3.K.A1 Use music, art, and/or stories to express ideas, thoughts, and feelings
Essential Question
● How can we use facial expressions to show others how we feel?
Objectives - The Pennsylvania Career Ready Skills Continuum Pre-K to K

● Students will recognize and label their own basic feelings
● Students will show awareness of themselves and their own preferences
● Students will distinguish between situations that elicit positive or negative
feelings
Materials
● Scenario sheet
● “Emotions Activity” worksheet
● Colored pencils
● Crayons
● Whiteboard and expo markers
● Disney’s Frozen clip
● Other Disney shorts (optional)
Procedures
● Introduction
○ Feelings are emotions that everybody has, including each one of you.
Some common feelings that we experience weekly include being happy,
sad, joy, anger, and fear. We can use our bodies to show others how we
are feeling. Today, we are going to do some fun activities to learn how to
show our emotions.
● Active Learning Strategies
○ Ask - As a group, can you think of some emotions and feelings that you
have experienced this past week?
○ Look For - happy, sad, scared, angry, surprised, bored, etc
○ Ask - Since we are all familiar with being happy, what are some things
that make us happy?
○ Look For - pets, favorite food, reading books, vacation, holidays, etc
○ Ask - What are some facial expressions that we can use to show our
emotions to others?
○ Look For - smiling, frowning, raising eyebrows, opening the mouth,
crying, etc
● Sequence of Learning
○ Gather students to introduce the essential question for the lesson
and discuss the active learning questions
○ While students are sitting in the group area, model the most common
emotions (happy, sad, angry, bored, scared, surprised, curious, and
exhausted)
■ Have students make the faces with you. This will allow them to
grasp the facial movements. Randomize these 8 emotions and ask
the students to demonstrate them.
○ Once the students feel comfortable with the 8 emotions, send them
back to their designated tables and hand out the emotions activity
coloring page (see the end of the lesson plan for activity)
■ Activity Instructions: students will be drawing facial expressions in
the circle spaces that are on their worksheet. Read the scenarios
and direct students to choose a circle to draw how they would feel
in a certain situation. Repeat the scenarios as many times as
needed and allow a few minutes for the students to use their art
supplies to decorate their page. Facilitate this activity by walking
around the classroom and ask students about their drawings.
○ After the emotions activity is completed, transition to the Disney
short video. The directions to the video will follow the lesson plan
■ Direct students to clean up their materials and gather in the group
learning area. This video shows a bonus scene from Disney’s
Frozen. Throughout the video, have students recognize the
characters’ faces. Pause the clip at various points to discuss the
facial expressions made after different scenarios. Ask the students
to demonstrate the specific emotions that are seen in the video
after they identify the emotion. If there is extra time, use other
Disney shorts and repeat this same activity.
● Summarizing Strategy
○ After all of the activities are complete, ask students to return to their tables
and put their worksheets in their mailboxes. Discuss with the students that
we feel emotions on a daily basis and we have the power within ourselves
to choose how we react to situations using facial expressions.
● Evaluation
○ Ask the students the following questions to end the lesson:
■ Ask - How did these activities today make you feel?
■ Look For - happy, excited, content
■ Show Me - ask students to show the emotion they just described
Assignments
● There is no formal assignment for this lesson; however, students may find it fun
to practice their facial expressions at home with their family. Have the students
make a certain face and their family will have to guess which emotion they are
expressing. This allows them to teach their family about emotions.
Special Considerations
● Early Finisher
○ Students who finish early will keep their hand turkey at their seat and pick
a book off of the bookshelf to read. They will be instructed to find and pick
out words that begin with the letters of the week and find sight words that
they already learned.
● Special Accommodations - Students with EBD
○ Students who have an emotional and behavior disorder will struggle with
identifying their emotions and expressing them appropriately. Scaffold the
drawing emotions activity by allowing them to pick out emotions that they
feel in their school day or that they have felt the day of this lesson and to
draw them out. This will help them recognize their own feelings and
become aware of how they perceive themselves.
Bibliography
“Standards.” SAS, www.pdesas.org/standard/.

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What are some common feelings that are experienced weekly?

What are some facial expressions that can be used to show emotions?

Kindergarten

Facial Expressions Lesson Plan: Self-Awareness

Objectives - The Pennsylvania Career Ready Skills Continuum Pre-K to K

“Standards.” SAS, www.pdesas.org/standard/.

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