Posted: June 21 2007 at 12:57pm | IP Logged

Here is my collection of online games, activities, etc. to teach children about emotions.  Let me know if any links are broken, because the addresses tend to get corrupted over time.

http://www.headroom.net.au/cubby/index.html - a couple emotions games.  Click on "fun".

http://www.hiyah.net/online_behavior.htm - nice vs. mean behavior

www.thomasandfriends.com - Two emotions games.  Which train is surprised (etc)?  And a memory game where you try to remember the order of the trains, then click on the stall door that you think has the train with the right emotion.

http://www.symbolworld.org/Bits+bobs/games/faces/index.htm - Emotions game where on some screens you can roll your mouse over a face and see the same person change to a different expression.

http://www.do2learn.com/games/learningames.htm - This website has a simple "Feelings Game" with real faces, and a "Facial Expressions" activity where you can manipulate a cyber face.  Also has other simple learning games.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/tikkabilla/games/emotion.shtml - a fun emotions game with a puppet character from Tikkabilla (BBC):

http://www.juliasrainbowcorner.com/html/feelingsgame.html - Short and easy game with cartoon human faces:

http://www.transporters.tv/watchep1.html - Excellent online video with quiz, featuring Thomas-like vehicle characters with living human faces.  Under downloads you'll find a character emotions pack "for classroom use".

http://www.jambav.com/jambav/flashy/fac/index.php?source=gam epage - "Face Talk" - Learning what basic emotions look like on real and cartoon faces, and why people feel happy, sad, angry.  Also has a quiz.

http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/Butler/curry/feelin gs.html - an online "book" with pictures of real kids looking sad, happy, etc. and quotes about what makes them feel that way.

http://www.ltag.education.tas.gov.au/planning/unitsamples/fe elings/feelings.doc#angry - a drawing of "signs my body is having an angry feeling" and "happy feeling" (on the last several pages of this document).

http://www.kizclub.com/Clipart/feelings1.pdf - these printables could be used as masks to show the various emotions.

http://www.cccoe.net/social/BL1.htm - multiple choice quiz for labelling a comic strip scenario with the appropriate emotion.  Intended for older kids.

http://www.senteacher.org/Print/?PHPSESSID=69c5ff8f5e8ebdaef bb26da60d1195a4 - printables with neutral, happy, sad, angry, disgusted and fearful expressions in male and female versions.  Can be printed as domino cards.

http://www.senteacher.org/Worksheet/40/ASD.xhtml - 12 different expressions.  Can be printed out as cards or shown one at a time on screen.

http://www.senteacher.org/Worksheet/50/Emotions.xhtml - 10 different expressions.  Can be printed out as cards or shown one at a time on screen.

http://www.senteacher.org/Worksheet/42/Feelings.xhtml - male and female faces with various expressions.  Each has a cartoon bubble for writing your own text.

http://www.jkp.com/mindreading/demo/index.php - online demo of Simon Baron-Cohen's Mindreading software (an interactive guide to emotions).  The Flash demo covers the emotion "hysterical."

http://www.hiyah.net/emotions/emotions/shell.swf - a powerpoint slide show that kids can page through using the space bar.  The emotion proud shows examples like getting dressed yourself!  But be patient, the program takes a long time to load, and it looks like nothing is happening.

http://www.btbetterworld.com/pg/developing_skills/free_resou rces/Making_Faces/home.ikml - drop n drag cartoon face activity designed for teaching emotions in schools.

www.jambav.com - this is about another aspect of reading faces -- following gaze.  Click on "channel 9" for the game LukaHead, then click on "play game".  You can choose whether the child will be the follower (following Luka's gaze and clicking on the circle he's looking at) or whether the child will be the leader (clicking on the circle so Luka's head will look that way).

http://myyoungchild.org/stories/index.htm - online emotions/social skills stories.

http://www.playtimewithzeebu.com/games/ - a game with puppet facial expressions, more games to come.

Printables:

http://download.ncadi.samhsa.gov/ken/pdf/CA-0041/cartoonshee t.pdf - "How do you feel coloring and activity book."

http://www.senteacher.org/Worksheet/41/Emotion.xhtml - 6 variations of a facial expression dice that you can print out and assemble.

Free software:

http://www.senteacher.org/FileDetails/7/Faces.xhtml - matching game.

http://www.senteacher.org/FileDetails/6/Rubberface.xhtml - manipulate facial expressions.  Includes a quiz.

Here are some other emotions-related websites that karjab30 posted awhile back.

http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/facial-expression.ht ml

http://www.acclaimimages.com/search_terms/facial_expressions .html

http://condor.depaul.edu/~lcamras/images/recogexp.htm

http://www.clipartguide.com/_search_terms/facial_expressions .html

http://www.kasrl.org/jaffe.html

Teaching activities:

http://autismgames.googlepages.com/autismgames%3Asharingemot ions - ideas for teaching emotions, includes video demonstrations.

Anyone else have any other emotions games or activities to add?

Posted: July 17 2007 at 6:25am | IP Logged

Here you can access a communication board with feelings vocabulary using Mayer-Johnson PCS symbols (both in Boardmaker and PDF format).  Just find "I Feel" in the Table of Contents.

http://www.setbc.org/setbc/communication/frame_pictureset.ht ml?refpage=/pictureset/SubCategory.aspx?id=9

Posted: August 03 2007 at 3:51am | IP Logged

For those of you who have heard of comic book conversations, this free online activity is a very good tool for this purpose.  You can easily make a 2 to 4 panel comic strip that illustrates what went wrong in an incident and help your "mind-blind" child see what the other person was thinking.  Here's the link:

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/comix.php

It's very easy to use.  Here are the basics.

1.  Click on a character, then click on the arrows to select the appropriate emotion.  Click on the image to select it, and it will appear in the comic strip panel.

2.  Click on a talking bubble, then click on the arrows to select the appropriate size and orientation.  Click on the bubble to select it, then click on "text here" to type in what the character says.

3.  Follow the same procedure to select a thought bubble and type in what the character is actually thinking, but not saying.

If you want to delete something you click on the delete button and then the object you want deleted.  Other buttons work in a similar way.  Just experiment and you'll figure it out.

P.S.  I've added a few other new resources to the list at the top of this topic.

Posted: March 21 2008 at 5:21am | IP Logged

For some reason, the edit button isn't coming up so I'll add my new finds here:

http://www.cyke.com/anger.swf - 4 games about anger.  Helps kids learn what anger looks like, what causes it, and how to calm down. 

http://www.cyke.com/depression.swf - games as above, but about depression/sadness.

http://www.cyke.com/worryville.swf - games as above, but about worry/anxiety

http://www.cyke.com/downloads/MonkeyExpress.mov - short anger movie.  Takes awhile to load.

Posted: May 11 2008 at 6:00am | IP Logged

thanks norwaymom for the tons of links some of which i already went through before but most of them just brand new for me...you are such a good reference..

a very nice site though is this www.ispeek.co.uk  i have added it to my collection of favourite sites..i hope you add it too in case of future reference for anybody who likes to use with his/her children. it has some parts about emotions and some picture recipes..very good in teaching autistic children to be independent..

thanks again norwaymom

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