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Feeling Sentence Builder

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About this MicroSim

Feeling Sentence Builder is an interactive MicroSim for this health-education textbook.

Students practice communicating a feeling in a healthy way by assembling an "I feel ___ because ___" sentence from word/picture tiles for a given scenario.

Use the controls in the panel below the drawing to interact with the model, then talk through what changed and why. The MicroSim is width-responsive and can be embedded in any course page with the iframe shown above.

Bloom's Taxonomy level: Apply (L3) — use, practice, demonstrate

Lesson Plan

Audience

This MicroSim is designed for Grade 1. For the K-3 bands the teacher typically drives the activity on a shared screen; older students can explore the MicroSim independently.

Learning Objective

Students practice communicating a feeling in a healthy way by assembling an "I feel ___ because ___" sentence from word/picture tiles for a given scenario.

This activity targets Bloom's Apply (L3) (use, practice, demonstrate).

Suggested Use (about 10 minutes)

  1. Warm up (2 min). Ask students what they already know about the topic and let one volunteer describe what they see on the screen.
  2. Model it (3 min). Demonstrate the interaction once, thinking aloud so students hear the reasoning behind each choice.
  3. Guided practice (3 min). Invite students to try the interaction and to predict what will happen before they act.
  4. Discuss (2 min). Ask why the result came out the way it did, connecting the on-screen result back to the learning objective above.

Check for Understanding

Have each student (or pair) explain their result in one sentence, using the vocabulary from this chapter. Look for reasoning that matches the Apply-level objective rather than a lucky guess.

Specification

The full specification below was extracted from Chapter 3: Understanding and Talking About Feelings.

Type: microsim
**sim-id:** feeling-sentence-builder<br/>
**Library:** p5.js<br/>
**Status:** Specified

Bloom Taxonomy: Apply (L3)
Bloom Taxonomy Verb: use, practice, demonstrate

Learning objective: Students practice communicating a feeling in a healthy way by assembling an "I feel ___ because ___" sentence from word/picture tiles for a given scenario.

Canvas layout:
- Top area (150px): One scenario picture at a time (e.g., a child whose block tower fell down)
- Middle area (250px): Two rows of tiles to click in order — a feeling-word row (happy, sad, angry, scared, excited, calm) and a reason row (three short reason tiles matching the scenario)
- Bottom strip (100px): Assembled sentence display and "Say It!" button

Learning tiles:
- Feeling tiles: happy, sad, angry, scared, excited, calm
- Reason tiles change per scenario (e.g., for the block tower scene: "because it fell down," "because it's my favorite color," "because it's time for lunch")

Interactive controls:
- Click a feeling tile, then click a matching reason tile
- Button: "Say It!" (assembles and displays the full sentence)
- Button: "Next Scenario"

Default parameters:
- First scenario: block tower falling down (a clear, relatable frustration, to build confidence)

Behavior:
- When a reasonable feeling + reason pair is assembled, the sentence appears in a speech bubble over the character, a gentle chime plays, and a caption affirms, "Great job telling someone how you feel!"
- If a mismatched pair is chosen (e.g., "happy" with "because it fell down"), a calm caption asks, "Does that feeling really match what happened? Try again."

Instructional Rationale: This is an Apply-level (use/practice) objective, so students actively construct and "say" a feelings sentence rather than only recognize one, matching the Grade 1 skill benchmark of communicating feelings, wants, and needs in healthy ways.

Implementation notes: Use p5.js. Keep tiles large and easy to click for early readers; include simple icons alongside each word. Teacher reads the assembled sentence aloud together with the class.

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