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Emotion Tracker Pal
The Emotion Tracker craft helps support personal and interpersonal skill-building by helping students identify and express their feelings while building geometry and 3D spatial skills.
This project was inspired by a customer, Luisa and her two little ones who used 3DuxDesign Go-Pack to craft their own "Emotion Checker", a fun and engaging craft that uses play therapy while helping kids find and name the emotions they are feeling. By creating a rotating face with different expressions along with adjustable written expression cards, children use a combination of verbal and non-verbal ways to share their emotions. Luisa is a stay-at-home mom and home schooler who also happens to have an MA and BA in education, a PhD in Chemistry and in all of her free time, creates beautiful STEM-based lesson plans for early learning which are available on her website, Tinyn3rds. You can find lots of fun STEM projects that work with 3DuxDesign kits at her shop.
Grades: K - 5 Duration: 1 Class Period Subjects: Geometry, ELA, SEL, Art, Life Skills Materials: GoBox Classroom
Print and cut out the shapes
Use the template to cut out your emotions and expression shapes. Use the blanks to create your own.
Build your Emotion Tracker Pal
Use the cardboard and connectors to build your pal... don't forget to decorate! Change your pal to match your mood!
Display your pal to share with peers! Put your pal on your desk so your friends, family and teacher know how you're feeling throughout the day!
Emotion Pal in Action!
Watch your pal come to life as you change the face to match your mood and share how you’re feeling throughout the day!
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Once your students can identify their own emotions, see if they can use their skills to name these creepy critters' feelings too!
Keep it on your desk so your students (and coworkers) know how you're feeling. This is also an AWESOME warmup for teacher trainings and workshops.
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