Author:
Şule Eşgi
Subject:
Elementary Education
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Level:
Lower Primary
Tags:
  • Empathy
  • License:
    Creative Commons Attribution
    Language:
    English
    Media Formats:
    Text/HTML

    Emotional Awareness and Empathy

    Emotional Awareness and Empathy

    Overview

    These studies were conducted at primary school level in order to gain the ability to develop emotional skills and empathy in children.

    I'm you,You're me eTwinning Project

    Project Partner Video

     

    The project is a project that aims to be a tolerant at the primary school level by recognizing different cultures of children, researching, presenting, introducing and introducing themselves, developing empathy skills for others and different cultures, being sensitive to nature and animals, raising awareness about down syndrome, autism and understanding the importance of friendship. The project started in January 2020 and ended in April 2020. Secure internet in the project, who am I? Who are we? The activities were held. The project partners have matched and presented each other's cultures and geographical features.
    Mixed country teams were established and worked with groups of 2 with 10 titles.
    Mixed Country Teams Working Together
    * Poetry of empathy
    * Good works abouth empathy
    * Empathy animals
    * Empathy nature
    * Empathy slogans
    * World Auistim Day
    * Down Sendrome Day
    * National Autism Day
    * Friendship is good
    * Reading film or story on empathy and asking questions

    Studies were carried out with teams formed between countries and joint studies were carried out. Different collaborative web 2 tools were used to share the works.
    In the project, a questionnaire about “traveling to the new continent” was carried out with the google survey, 93 students participated in the survey and the survey results were shared. The main purpose of the questionnaire is that the things that matter to ourselves are noticed by the students. At the end of the survey, students made pictures of their new continent dreams. An ebook has been created from these pictures.
    The project joint product was created by the project partners having the letters of the project name made by the students.
    For the project evaluation, a single questionnaire was created in the twinspace. In addition, the video of mixed country teams was organized as an interactive video and it was made to include asking partners questions.
    School websites, local digital press, project blogger and website were used for project dissemination.

     

     

     

     

    Who I'am?

    Students are given small blank papers. They are asked to write the three most important features of this article. (Except for physical properties) The papers are folded into a container by the students. Then the students randomly choose the paper and read it against the class. If found, the class will be applauded. If not, the class will be asked.

    This activity also aims to improve students' attention skills.

    Evaluation: How many students made the correct guess?

    Who I'am?

       

    Mixed Country Teams Studies

     

     

    Autism Awareness Day / Down Syndrome Day

    Autism Awareness Day

     

     

    Down Syndrome Day