Emotional Intelligence: Understanding Ourselves and Others
This worksheet helps 6th-grade students understand and practice emotional intelligence by identifying emotions, understanding their impact, and developing empathy.
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Emotional Intelligence: Understanding Ourselves and Others
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will help you explore your own emotions and understand how they impact your interactions with others.
1. Which of the following best describes 'emotional intelligence'?
Being good at math problems
Understanding and managing your own emotions, and recognizing emotions in others
Memorizing many facts and figures
Being the fastest runner
2. When you are aware of your own feelings, you are demonstrating:
Social skills
Self-awareness
Motivation
Empathy
Fill in the blank with the correct emotion word from the word bank below.
3. When you feel happy and excited, you are experiencing .
4. If a friend tells you they lost their pet, you might feel .
5. When someone is unfair to you, you might feel .
6. Seeing a scary movie might make you feel .
7. Describe a time when you showed empathy towards someone. What did you do or say?
8. Why is it important to understand how others are feeling?
9. It's okay to feel angry, but it's important to manage your anger in a healthy way.
True
False
10. Ignoring your feelings is a good way to deal with them.
True
False
11. Think about a time when you had a disagreement with a friend. How did understanding your own emotions, or your friend's emotions, help resolve the situation?