Help young learners build emotion vocabulary and self-awareness with a ready-to-use lesson and interactive emotion quiz. Designed for kindergarten and first grade, this resource invites students to identify feelings from facial expressions and illustrations, then practice naming emotions together.

What's included

• A one-page lesson plan with an objective, materials, assessment, and discussion and activity procedures.
• A 21-slide interactive PowerPoint quiz in both editable PowerPoint and show formats. Students click the emotion that best describes each picture.
• A four-page printable worksheet: students match emotion words to illustrated faces, with cut-out labels and two incorrect choices.

How to use it

Use the lesson plan to introduce emotions through discussion, facial-expression mimicry, and examples of how feelings can affect the body. Then have students take turns answering the quiz, as described in the lesson. The printable worksheet offers follow-up practice; print it for students to cut, sort, and paste the matching labels into spaces beneath the pictures.

Skills and audience

This resource focuses on identifying emotions and developing self-awareness and related vocabulary. The illustrated choices include happy, sad, and angry, while the worksheet’s label bank also includes surprised, tired, and shy. It is a natural fit for elementary classroom instruction or school counseling lessons with kindergarten and first-grade students.

Materials and preparation

The lesson plan lists chart paper and a marker along with the interactive quiz. The worksheet requires printing and cutting; students paste labels onto the matching worksheet spaces. Use the slide show on a screen for the interactive activity. The files also include terms-of-use and feedback-direction documents.