Emotions part 5

Emotions part 5 addresses the emotions of empathy and sadness.

WALT: Identify our emotions and how we use our emotions​

What is Empathy?​

Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.​

• You can understand where others are coming from.

Empathy​. Check out this scenario:​

You’re sitting with your friends at lunch and one of them starts to tell you a story of their dog who died in the weekend. They look very sad and their voice shows you that this is upsetting for them.

What is your reaction?

There is a youtube video about empathy.

What makes you sad?​

What can you do about sadness?​

Check out this scenario:​

You are sitting at a table at lunchtime eating with your friends and a spider crawls onto your sandwich and you freak out. You throw the sandwich across the table and knock over your drink-making a mess. You start to cry because you're scared. You don’t know where the spider went and you’ve messed up everyone’s lunch.​