Face Cards for Emotional Awareness Manual

Grades 6-12. This innovative counseling tool features a deck of 54 illustrated cards showing facial expressions of various emotions. The cards help students learn “the language of emotions” as they reflect on their feelings and life experiences. A facilitator’s manual provides implementation guidelines and 119 suggested activities. The activities are flexible and provide a collection of starting points to help promote personal growth and trusting relationships with others.

The 119 Face Card activities are identified for use with middle school or high school students or both. Some activities work best in one-to-one settings. Others can be used with either individuals or with different size groups. Each activity focuses on one of the following themes: Reflection, Prediction, Empathy, Cooperation, or Problem Solving.

What sets Face Cards apart from other seemingly similar products is that instead of pairing each expression with a specific word, Face Cards “speak for themselves.” An expression that says “worry” to one person might say “pensive” to another, or even “queasy” to a third. Words have definitions. Pictures can mean almost anything.