Understanding Empathy
This worksheet helps 6th-grade students understand empathy, its importance, and how to practice it in daily life through various exercises.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet is designed to help you think about empathy and its role in our lives.
1. Empathy is the ability to and share the feelings of another person.
2. When you are empathetic, you try to understand a situation from someone else's .
3. Empathy is different from sympathy because sympathy is feeling for someone, while empathy is feeling with them.
1. Which of the following is the best example of showing empathy?
Telling a friend to stop being sad.
Listening to a friend describe why they are upset.
Changing the subject when someone is talking about their feelings.
Ignoring someone who is having a bad day.
2. Why is empathy important in friendships?
It helps you win arguments.
It makes you more popular.
It builds trust and strengthens your bond.
It allows you to get what you want.
1. You can only show empathy to people you know well.
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1. Describe a time when someone showed empathy towards you. How did it make you feel?
2. Imagine a new student joins your class and seems shy. What are two empathetic actions you could take to make them feel welcome?
Use the words below to complete the sentences about how to practice empathy.
1. To show empathy, it's important to actively to others when they are speaking.
2. Try to understand a situation from another person's .
3. Acknowledge and validate other people's , even if you don't agree with them.
4. Show and compassion to everyone, especially when they are struggling.