2.+Emotion's+groups+and+emotions+intensity

1. Lesson 2
 * __Emotion groups and emotions intensity__**

The students will be able to classify emotions into the 5 basic groups: Sad, Angry, Scared, Happy, and Neutral. Made with [|Kidspiration] Captured with [|Jing] “Every one of you has seen a thermometer. This is an instrument that you can measure temperature with. It shows you if the temperature is high or low. Even though we cannot measure emotions with a thermometer we can put on an intensity scale. An intensity scale shows you how much you feel about something. For example you can love your grandmother a lot but you love your neighbor Tony just a little bit. We are going to call all the emotions that you can put on an intensity scale – emotion families.” The students will be given an intensity scale and a group of words describing favorite items. The students will have to arrange the words on the intensity scale in the order of their preferences and say how they feel every time they get to have that particular object. Explain the students that they will have to look at the list of items they have in front of them. Everyone will have to pick his/her favorite item and place it at the top of their intensity scale. After this step has been completed they will have to write an emotion word that corresponds to the chosen item. UDL: instead of writing the students can either type or cut and paste pictures of their favorite items/objects.
 * Objective:**
 * Anticipatory set:**
 * UDL:** Higher functioning students will classify a group of emotions such as: Happy, glad, excited, overjoyed. Lower functioning students will classify emotions according to the following criteria: a little happy, happy and very happy.
 * Procedures:**
 * Initial instruction:**

The teacher can use a SmartBoard activity in order to model how to make choices of the favorite items for the first choice. The students will either write down the words or cut out pictures (for lower functioning students). The number of choices can be reduced for lower functioning students to 2 or 3. The teacher will explain that after everyone completed all the choices they should name their intensity scale after the emotion that is at the bottom of the scale. The student should be engaged in selecting different choices according to their personal preferences, likes or dislikes (happy, sad, angry, scared). After making a choice they should write a word or a sentence or paste a picture to the next level bellow. At the end the student should name the intensity scale after the emotion at the bottom of the scale.
 * Guided practice:**
 * Independent practice:**


 * Evaluation:** The students should have at 4 emotion intensity scale labeled accordingly.
 * Performance Evaluation:** The student should have written, typed or pasted in the correct sequence the pictures of liked, prefered items.

The student will punch in numbers of how many times he/she felt happy, sad, angry, etc. Graphs will be analyzed at the end of each week.
 * __UDL:__** students with reading and writing problems will have the opportunity to keep track of their emotions by using a spreadsheet: