Worksheets | Empathy Worksheets - Predicting Emotions

Empathy Skills Builder

Objective
Reading and understanding other's emotions is a building block to having empathy for others. In these empathy worksheets, students look at facial expressions and body language in emotive pictures to identify how the person in the photo may be feeling.

Grade Level

1 - 4

Character/SEL Topics

- Empathy
- Social awareness & social skills

Procedures

Empathy is the ability to understand how someone else is feeling, even if you aren't in the same situation or don't feel the same way yourself. You may have empathy when you feel an emotion with someone else, or when you understand how they are feeling / see their perspective. See the What is Empathy? definition for a full explanation and examples in terms kids will understand.

Empathy starts with predicting emotions in others.
A key building block to children building empathy skills is to first identify how other's are feeling. Facial expressions and body positions are good cues to help one understand how someone else feels. Notice eyebrow position, how open or closed someone eyes are, frowning or smiling, crossed vs. open arms, elevated posture or hunched... these are all clues children can read to predict emotions in others.

How to use this worksheet.
In these worksheets, children look at the photos and use cues to predict how the characters are feeling. Students can write in answers, or use the fillable fields in the PDF to type in answers.

Printable PDFs

Talking with Trees' PDFs are free to print or share for non-commercial use, meaning you are welcome to link to thei pages for educational purposes, add PDFs to your Google classroom or print PDFs for in-class use.