Identifying Emotions - Feelings Flowers SEL Lesson - Social Emotional Learning Activities

This is a set of flower-themed social emotional learning activities designed to help students identify and understand emotions. This structured SEL lesson encourages students to describe various feelings and when they happen. 

With student-facing slides in both Google Slides and PowerPoint, a detailed 5-step lesson plan, emotion cards, supplemental materials, and feelings worksheets, this lesson keeps prep simple without sacrificing any needed materials.

What's Included

Lesson Slides

Guide your teaching with student-facing Google Slides & PowerPoint slides.

Detailed 5-Step Lesson Plan

• Hook Question: Engage students immediately with a think question.
• I Do Intro: Give students an example of what emotions look like and when they happen. 
• We Do Activity: Students work together to complete the prompts to create feelings flowers.
• You Do Activity: Students work independently to complete their feelings flowers. Use the included Feelings Pot for display.
• Reflection Question & Exit Ticket

Supplemental Materials

• Extension Worksheet: Use for early finishers or send home.
• Exit Ticket Quick reflection activity.
• Suggested Book List - A list of great feelings books for elementary.
• Supporting Visuals: 8 Emotion Cards

What You'll Love About It ❤️

1. Scaffolded lesson plan to teach, support, and practice.
2. Lesson slides with editable text you can customize for your students.
3. Easy to adapt for whole group, small group, and individual students.
4. Minimal prep and low ink printing.

SEL Standards

Self awareness; Identifies emotions and the situations that cause them.