Emotional Awareness Teaching Resources
Build your students' emotional awareness with activities, printables and more social emotional teaching resources designed specifically for primary school students.
Created by teachers, for teachers, this collection is full of digital and printable activities designed to help students recognise not just their own emotions but those of their peers and learn to put a name to those feelings. Each teaching resource has undergone rigorous review by the Teach Starter team to ensure it's ready for the classroom ... and your students!
Curious about how to help your class develop their emotional awareness in age-appropriate ways? Read on for some tips from our expert teachers!
What Is Emotional Awareness?
A component of self awareness, emotional awareness can be defined as the ability to recognise, understand and effectively manage one's own emotions and the emotions of others. If that sounds like a lot rolled up into one fairly simple definition, we agree.
Emotional Self Awareness in Kids
Teaching kids to be emotionally aware in primary school requires a lot of practicing and modelling, as well as working with your class to provide them with the vocabulary these little people need to express sometimes very big feelings.
When the youngest children enter elementary school, they may have some of the language already to identify and label basic emotions like happiness and sadness or anger and fear. However at this point, their understanding of complex emotions and the ability to express and regulate their emotions is still typically limited.
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Calm Down Corner Classroom Decor Pack
Create a classroom calming corner with a printable Calm Corner Decor Pack.
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Managing Big Emotions Posters
Help students manage emotions such as anger, fear, worry, sadness and happiness with this colourful set of posters for your primary school classroom.
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Feeling Safe Mini-Book
Explore positive and negative feelings and what it feels like to be safe with this mini-book.
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Emotion Strategies Wheel
Help your students self-regulate when they experience 'big' emotions with this hands-on emotions wheel with accompanying calming strategies.
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My Personal Coping Skills Plan – Template
Ensure your students have a personalised coping plan for those challenging moments with this comic-themed printable template.
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Synonym Poster Pack - Emotions Chart Display
Blend social-emotional learning and vocabulary building activities with a set of 15 emotional synonyms anchor charts.
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The Worry Waterfall – Anxiety Management Poster
Teach your students how to deal effectively with worrying thoughts with this classroom poster.
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Feelings Endless Card Template
An endless card template for students to create and use to communicate how they are feeling.
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Name Five Things - Calming Strategy Task Cards
Use the ‘Name 5 Things’ Calming Strategy in your classroom to help students regain self-control with printable calming activity task cards.
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Calm-Down Strategy Cards
Help your students choose and apply strategies when they need to calm down with this comprehensive set of calm-down strategy cards.
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Feelings and Emotions Match-Up Activity
Help students to recognise and identify their feelings and emotions with this interactive match-up activity.
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How Big Emotions Feel in My Body – Poster
Help your students identify the signs their body gives them that they are experiencing a ‘big’ emotion with this informative classroom poster.
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Emotional Self-Regulation – Student Mood Meter
Allow your students to communicate how they are feeling using a non-verbal, desk-sized mood meter.
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Wheely Wonderful Words – Emotional States
A word wheel of synonyms and similar words used to describe emotional states.
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Managing Anxiety Worksheet (Upper Primary)
Help older students identify and manage anxious feelings with this self-reflection and action plan worksheet.
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How Are You Feeling Today? Poster
Help students to recognise and identify their feelings and emotions with this colourful classroom display poster.
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Emotions Bingo
Play Emotions Bingo to help your little learners practise recognising emotions.
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I Need a Break - Choice Boards
Help upset students regulate their emotions in the classroom with our printable ‘I Need a Break!’ choice boards.
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Emotional Awareness Face Template
Teach your students emotional awareness with this customisable face template perfect for lessons focused on social-emotional learning.
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Managing Big Emotions – Interactive Activity
Teach students how to manage emotions using healthy coping skills with this interactive scenario game for the early years classroom.
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Managing Big Emotions – Cut and Paste Worksheets
Empower students to identify and manage big emotions with this set of cut-and-paste worksheets for early years students.
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Empathy Poster Set
Enhance student understanding of empathy and why it is important with this set of 4 classroom posters.
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Managing Emotions Mini-Book
Help your early years students explore and manage their emotional responses with this printable mini-book.
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Coping Skills Desk Plates
Download and print calm-down strategy desk plates for your students so they can respond appropriately to big emotions.
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Emotions Worksheet Set
Help students understand different emotions with this set of five emotions worksheets.
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My Heart Full of Emotions Activity
Promote mindfulness and self reflection by writing out descriptions of different emotions.
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Recognising Feelings Flashcards
Improve your students' emotional literacy with this set of feelings flashcards.
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Emotional Self-Regulation Desk Mat
Promote emotional awareness and self-regulation in your classroom with this desk-sized strategies mat.
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Emotional Self-Regulation Poster
Promote emotional awareness and self-regulation in your classroom with this classroom poster.
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Mount Feeling - Feelings Poster and Flashcards
Mount Feeling poster and flashcards to help students vocalise how they are feeling using a visual aid.
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Introduction to Emotions Teaching Slides
Teach your students to understand and manage their emotions with this comprehensive teaching presentation for your social-emotional learning lessons.
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My Emotional Triggers Worksheet
Help your early years students explore the situations that trigger them to experience certain emotional responses with this 2-page emotional triggers worksheet.