Identifying emotions 5: Listen to the messages of emotions

Use this ready-made SEL lesson focusing on the subskill of 'Identifying Emotions' to help you with social emotional learning in the classroom.

This is lesson 5 in a series of 8 and it's designed for use as one of your SEL activities with the whole class, a small group, or one-to-one. Self-Awareness is one of the five components that make up CASEL's model of SEL education. To find other SEL activities, please visit our homepage and search through hundreds of SEL lessons created by educators and other experts in SEL education.

Our digital SEL lessons integrate with Pear Deck to facilitate student engagement. These lessons include interactive, age-appropriate social emotional learning activities, questions, videos, and animations for every CASEL subskill.

Identifying emotions is the first step towards effectively managing them. A key building block of the SEL curriculum is that no emotion management can happen without identifying that emotion first. This SEL lesson will help you teach your students how to recognize and understand what they are feeling, making difficult emotions less likely to have a negative impact on behavior.