The Emotion Wheel

The Emotion Wheel is a teaching tool designed to help students name and accept their emotions. This “emotional compass” is easy to assemble with a brad and allows students to express exactly how they’re feeling by moving the arrow to the corresponding emotion.

By identifying where their emotions fall on the broad spectrum shown on this tool, students deepen their understanding of emotions and develop their emotional intelligence, ability to self regulate, and healthy communication skills.

Here’s one great way to use this tool in your classroom: ask your students to keep it somewhere visible on their desk and use it to do an emotional check-in every day. Why not keep one on your own desk, too?