How Emotions Feel in Your Body
Personal & Social Development · Emotional Literacy · conceptual
Understand the connection between emotions and the body — recognising physical signals like butterflies in the stomach (nervous), clenched fists (angry), racing heart (scared or excited), and tight shoulders (stressed)
What mastery looks like
- Name at least three body sensations and match them to the emotions they signal
- Notice a physical feeling in their own body and identify the emotion behind it
- Explain why the body reacts physically when we have strong emotions
Check your understanding
Before a school performance or sports day, can How Emotions Feel in Your Body notice and tell you about the physical feelings in their body — like butterflies in their tummy — and connect them to being nervous or excited?
Prerequisites
Required first