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Interactive Activities · Activity 18 of 18
Understanding How Others Feel
Help students identify and understand the emotions and feelings of people around them through guided classroom activities.
Key takeaways
- The activity, titled “My World Through Your Eyes”, helps children aged 8–12 understand other people's emotions.
- Three scenario cards are used: a lonely student, a boy who lost his ball and a new student in the class.
- For each card, students answer two questions: how might this person feel, and how would we want to act?
- Answers from the class include going up to the lonely student and offering a game, sharing a ball, and introducing the new student to the class.
- The conclusion: looking at the world through someone else's eyes helps us understand them and build strong friendships.
What is the aim of this activity?
Students learn to understand the emotions of others and develop empathy through emotional awareness. The activity turns empathy — putting ourselves in someone else's shoes — from a theoretical concept into a skill children can use in daily life.
How does the activity run in class?
The teacher shows a scenario card and asks how the person on it might be feeling, writes the answers on the board, and then asks how we would want to act if we were in their shoes.
For the lonely student, the class says the student may feel lonely, sad, excluded and unhappy. Their ideas for acting: going up to them, offering a game and being their friend.
Which other scenarios are used?
A child who lost his ball may feel disappointed, upset and worried; students suggest sharing their ball with him and suggesting a new game.
A new student in the class may feel nervous, shy and lonely; students suggest introducing them to the class and eating together.
Video transcript
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Activity 5, understanding how others feel. Title is, My World Through Your Eyes. We have three scenarios in this activity. The first one is a lonely student. The second one is the boy who lost his ball. And the last scenario will be about a new student in the class. Students learn to understand the emotions of others and develop empathy through this emotional awareness.
This activity transforms empathy from a theoretical concept into a skill applicable in daily life. Hello kids. Today, we are going to learn to understand the emotions of others or how the people feel. We all experience different emotions. Empathy, which is defined as putting ourselves into someone else's shoes, helps us to understand them better.
Now, let's look at a scenario. The first scenario is the student who is lonely, as you see in the card. If we think about this student, how do we think the student might be feeling? Okay, these are very good answers, excellent answers. He or she may be feeling lonely. Sad, excluded, and unhappy, that's right, unhappy, sad, excluded.
And if this is the case for this girl or boy, if we were in his or her shoes, how would we want to act? Going up to him or her, that's good. Offering him or her a game, that's another good idea. Being his or her friend. These are really might be a good solution for this situation. Going on, him or her.
Being friends, him Yes. These are good. Using a be a good solution for this situation. Let's look at another card. It is about a child who lost his ball, as you see in the card. How do you think the child might feel in this situation? He might be disappointed, upset, and worried.
You made a great point there. Let me write. He might be disappointed, upset, and worried. You made a great point there. How would we act for this student? Sharing our ball with him. That's an excellent example.
And we can suggest a new game. Let me write. Suggest a new game. Sharing our ball with him. That's very nice. That would be a great example of empathy. Finally, a new student in the class. Think about a new student in the class. What might this student be feeling?
This is the new student in the class. Can you see on the card? The question: what might this student be feeling? He may be feeling nervous, shy, lonely. Thanks for sharing your answers. He or she may be feeling lonely, shy like this. In this case, how can we act for this lonely student?
Can I take your ideas? Introducing him or her to the class. Very nice. What else? Eating together. Yes, these are good ideas. Introducing him or her to the class. Eating with him or her.
From this point, we can conclude that looking at the world through someone's eyes, not only helps us understand them better, but also helps us build strong friendships.
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