Understanding Empathy
A worksheet for 3rd graders to learn about empathy, understanding others' feelings, and showing kindness.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will help you learn about empathy and how to show it to others.
What is Empathy?
Empathy is when you understand and share the feelings of another person. It means putting yourself in someone else's shoes to imagine how they might be feeling.
1. What does it mean to 'put yourself in someone else's shoes'?
To wear their shoes
To understand their feelings
To give them your shoes
To walk with them
2. Which of these is an example of showing empathy?
Laughing when someone falls down
Ignoring a friend who is sad
Comforting a friend who is upset
Talking only about yourself
Fill in the blank with the best word.
3. When you show empathy, you try to understand how someone else is .
4. Being kind and helpful to others is a way to show .
Read each statement and circle True or False.
5. Empathy means you always agree with what someone says.
True
False
6. You can show empathy by listening carefully when someone talks.
True
False
Look at the picture below. How do you think the children are showing empathy?
7. Describe a time when you showed empathy to a friend or family member. What happened and how did you help?
8. Why is it important to be empathetic towards others?