My Ever Changing Mood

My Ever Changing Mood

The aim is create awareness of others’ feelings towards a learning task.

1. The teacher presents a learning task to the students. 
2. The students are given time to understand and explore their feelings towards the learning task.
3. Each student selects a card that best describes their mood towards the learning task.
4. In groups of 4, each student explains to the rest of the group how they feel. 
5. Other members of the group then respond to each participant to explore the others’ feelings. 
6. A class discussion takes place to analyse the students’ responses to the learning task.

The activity aims to create group cohesion, collaboration and support by exercising empathy and respect to fellow group members. All students should respond positively to each other using non-judgmental language. It should be stressed during the activity, that moods are ever-changing and that nature of the learning task can have a significant impact on one’s emotions at one particular time.
The activity could be done using online tools such as Padlet, virtual whiteboard and breakout rooms in Teams/Zoom.

Inspired by: Andrea Harrn (2015) – The Mood Cards