💗 Investigation
💗 Interactive
⏱ 15 minutes
Activity 2 - Feeling With the Other
Sometimes it is hard to know what others feel. But we can learn to notice: in the face, in the voice, in the body and in the words. A simple gesture can change someone's day.
Scenes
Act
Discuss
Step 1 - For each scene, notice what the person might feel
Step 2 - Choose a helping gesture
No gesture is too small
From this menu, what could you do?
Invite them
Call them over
Help them
Tell an adult
Step 3 - Share (optional)
Would you like to share the gesture you chose?
Yes, I'll say it out loud
I'll show my card instead
I'd rather keep it to myself
Bridge to Activity 3
"We now know how to feel with the other. Now we will build, together, a school where everyone fits."
What happens in Activity 2
A 15-minute Investigation activity. Three simple scenes are shown one at a time; learners identify the emotion the character might feel, then choose one helping gesture from a fixed menu of four options.
🎯 Learning objectives
Recognise emotions in oneself and in others, supported by pictograms and a visual scale. Understand that the same situation can be experienced in different ways. Choose a concrete way to help someone who feels alone or excluded.
♿ Accessibility adaptations
- Low vision: every scene is written out in full (not image-only); use "Read this page aloud" for a complete audio pass; "High contrast" sharpens all text and borders.
- Autism (ASD): emotions and situations are named explicitly and concretely; no dramatisation or role-play is required - choosing from the menu is enough; the sequence is fixed and predictable.
- Cognitive diversity: one scene at a time, a short 4-option "helping gestures" menu, extended time and no timer at all on this activity.
🖨️ No-Tech Format
- Paper scene cards (image + simple text), read and described aloud by the teacher
- Emotion and helping-gesture cards, with pictogram and texture, to point to or hand over
- An intensity scale drawn on paper (three circles of increasing size)
- A circle discussion, with the explicit rule that all ways of helping count