Emotions and Feelings Learning Mentor Resources

Emotional Wellbeing and Reflection Activity

As a learning mentor, I’ve struggled to find age appropriate wellbeing resources to use with my middle and high school students - most seem to be tailored to little ones. This resource focusses on how young people feel about common school and home issues.

Included in this resource:

• 16 situation cards - cards describing specific situations at home or school e.g. friendships, bullying, learning, home life etc.
• A positive emotion fan set (including seven feelings fans)
• A negative emotion fan set (including seven feelings fans)

How to use:

• Students pick a situation card at random and read it e.g. Situation Card 15: You see another student being bullied at break time. You are in two minds what to do, as you were previously quite close with the group doing the bullying
• Students then pick whether they feel positive or negative about this. They pick up either the positive fan set or the negative fan set
• Students then choose one or two specific emotion fans from the set e.g. Disappointed and Vulnerable
• You can then talk to your students why they would feel this way and explore these feelings deeper

The resource comes with full instructions.

There will be some American spellings in this resource.

I find this resource to be interactive, conversation prompting and accessible to middle and high school learners.