empathy

WALT: Comprehend concepts related
to mental health and emotional promotion.

What is empathy?Empathy is defined as the ability to understand the thoughts and feelings.

e.g. An example of empathy is feeling the same amount of excitement as a friend.

Why is it important to show empathy toward others? so you can feel what other people feel.   

What does it mean to “put yourself in someone else’s shoes”? talk to them/be friend with them.

What does that have to do with empathy? it is because somebody will be left out and they will be sad and feeling left out so that is what to do with empathy.

What can you do to show empathy toward another person? If they are feeling sad and u know how it will be in their position.  

Make a popplet or Google drawing a displaying ways that you can reach out to others.

Think of a time when you hurt someone’s feelings. Describe what happened. One day I put rubbish in my friends bag and someone saw me and told that person and I got in trouble.   

How did you know you hurt the person’s feelings? because he acted different to me  

How did you feel about the situation?

I felt bad

What did you do to make the situation better? I went and said sorry  

Discuss how you think your school would change if all of the students showed empathy toward each other.

Do you think it would be a big change or a small

change? Why do you think so? I think its going to be a big change because I think everybody should be empathic.