Lab 1 - Act Happy
- Students will connect their experiences playing pretend with the 123 Robot pretending to feel a specific way. They will observe the “Act happy” Coder card and watch how the 123 Robot pretends to be happy. Students will make connections between how they act when they are happy, to the actions of the 123 Robot while the “Act happy” card is being used.
- Students will make predictions about the other Action Coder cards (“Act sad” or “Act crazy”), then test these cards to see how the 123 Robot pretends to act sad or act silly.
- After discussing how the 123 Robot acted out feelings, students will create their own code to match an emotion, then test their code with the 123 Robot.
- Students will share their emotion codes with their classmates and how those behaviors correspond to that specific emotion.
Lab 2 - Match the Feeling
- Students will listen to a brief story about a situation that could happen in their lives. They will choose which emotion code from Lab 1 best fits the person in the story and explain why they chose that emotion.
- Students will then be given another short story and work with their groups to create an emotion code to match the feelings of the main character in the story.
- When groups compare their emotion codes, students will reflect on how people can feel differently about the same situation, by seeing how different groups chose different emotions to express in their code.
- Students will create their own situation and matching emotion code, then share those creations with their classmates at the end of the Lab.