Empathy for All
Overview
In this lesson, students will discuss, collaborate, and complete an activity to learn how to show empathy toward others.
Lesson Overview
Please adapt the lesson activity to fit your students' abilities and interests.
Introduction
In this lesson, students will discuss, collaborate, and complete an activity to learn how to show empathy toward others.
Grades 3 – 5
Themes
- Empathy
Objectives
During this lesson, students will:
- Define empathy and its importance.
- Discuss how to show empathy for others.
- Write a reflection paper on the importance of empathy.
Essential Questioning
Students should be able to answer these questions by the end of this lesson:
- What does it mean to show empathy?
- Why is being able to show empathy for others important?
Indiana Academic Standards
- INSS.ELA: 3.RL.3.2 Distinguish personal point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
- INSS.ELA: 3.W.4 Apply the writing process.
- INSS.ELA: 4.RL.3.2 Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations.
- INSS.ELA: 4.RL.4.2 Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics and patterns of events in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
- INSS.ELA: 4.W.4 Apply the writing process.
- INSS.ELA: 5.RL.4.2 Compare and contrast stories in the same genre on their approaches to similar themes and topics.
- INSS.ELA: 5.W.4 Apply the writing process.
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