Empathy Lesson Plan Kaitlyn Richard

Detailed Lesson Preparation Guide
Elementary Education
Name: Kaitlyn Richard
Title: Stand in Our Shoes
Grade:2
Concept/Topic: Empathy
Time Needed: 30-45 Minutes
Backward Design Approach: Where are you going with your students?
Identify Desired Results/Learning Outcome/Essential Question:
Essential Question:
What is empathy, and how can we use it to better understand others around us?
Learning Outcomes:
Students will know about empathy.
Students will be able to describe how they can show empathy.
Ensuring Lesson supports district and state goals

NCSCOS Standards:
2.C.1.3 Exemplify respect and appropriate social skills needed for working with diverse groups.
Assessment Plan:
The students will be writing a sentence on how they can show empathy in their lives and adding it to a
class poster.
Meeting the student where they are:

Prior Knowledge/Connections:
It is important to see what the children already know about empathy and the phrase stand in my shoes
by asking questions before the lesson begins.
Lesson Introduction/Hook:
To introduce the lesson, ask the children to form a circle look at everyones shoes and get with a partner
to compare shoes. Talk about how their shoes are similar and different and why they are different. Ask if
the children know what the phrase stand in my shoes means. Once they have answers let them know
that it means to see how some else feels and understand the way they live their life.
Heart of the Lesson/Learning Plans
Differentiation/Same-ation:
Read Aloud so the children will all be able to hear and see the text.
Whole group discussions
Small Group Discussions
Turn and talk points for partner discussions
Sentence starter to provide scaffolding
Lesson Development:
1. Read the book stand in my shoes to the children stopping on certain pages to ask questions.
Pg. 5 ask What do you think Alicia wants Emily to understand?
Pg. 9 ask How was Emilys Dad feeling and how does Emily show empathy towards him?
Pg. 21 ask What are some ways Emily show empathy at school towards her teachers and
classmates.
Pg. 30 ask What did Emily learn about becoming aware of other peoples feelings?
2. Ask again what Empathy means and talk about what it looks like to stand in someone elses
shoes.
3. Send children back to their desks and give each a piece of cardstock.
4. Tell them they are all going to trace decorate their own shoes to add to a class poster to remind
us to always think about standing in someone elses shoes.
5. Show the kids how to trace their shoes and cut it out.
6. Allow for time to decorate the shoes about 5-10 minutes.
7. Give them glue or tape to make a class poster with everyones different shoes.
8. Talk abut how everyones shoes are different, but they might show a little bit about that person.
9. Have the children talk in groups about how they can show empathy to their classmates and
families at home and give them one sentence strip to write their idea on.
10. Let them add their ideas to the poster and move on to concluding the big ideas (conclusion
section).
Specific Questioning:
What did Emily learn in the story?
How can you show empathy at school and at home?
What does it mean to stand in someone elses shoes?
New Vocabulary:
Empathy- the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Stand in (someone's) shoes- To see or understand things from someone else's position or perspective; to
empathize with someone.
Concluding the Lesson/Closure/Debriefing:

After everyone has added their pieces to the class poster bring the class to carpet to discuss the poster.
Ask the kids to share some of the ideas they wrote about showing empathy. Once everyone has shared
remind them that it is always important to see and understand how people are feeling and we will use
the poster in the class to remind us of this everyday.
Materials/Resources:
Book: Stand in My Shoes
Card Stock
Crayons and Pencils
Sentence Strip
Poster board
Teaching Behavior Focus:

I will focus on wait time (3+ seconds) after asking questions. I noticed that I often ask a question and
immediately turn to the first person with their hand up to answer the question. I want to give all kids the
opportunity to process the question and participate in class discussion.
Follow-Up Activities/Parent Involvement

Add an empathy jar in the classroom and have the kids add times they notice other people
feelings to the jar.
Tell the kids to talk to their families and find out how they are feeling after school one day.

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Detailed Lesson Preparation Guide

Title: Stand in Our Shoes

Time Needed: 30-45 Minutes

Ensuring Lesson supports district and state goals

Meeting the student where they are:

Concluding the Lesson/Closure/Debriefing:

Teaching Behavior Focus:

Follow-Up Activities/Parent Involvement

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