Empathy Worksheets and Teaching Resources
Empathy Teaching
Try our empathy worksheets and other teaching resources to help children build empathy, a critical social emotional skill.
Understanding how other people are feeling is the first step in having positive relationships, communicating effectively, and adjusting one's own behavior. Every character education and social emotional lesson includes a component of empathy. These empathy worksheets, lessons plans, quotes and more teaching resources are a great way to add an empathy lesson to your teaching plan.
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Our PDF worksheets are free to print or share for non-commercial use. Talking with Trees empathy worksheets are available as downloadable PDFs that can be printed, or post them to your Google classroom or other Learning Management System. Built-in fillable fields enable children to type in their answers online.
Empathy Resources by Type:
Empathy Worksheets
Predicting Emotions
Read faces / body language to predict how others feel with characters from Be Proud.
Predicting Emotions
Read faces / body language to predict how others feel with characters from Be Bigger.
Predicting Emotions
Read faces / body language to predict how others feel with characters from What if.
Showing Empathy
Draw a picture of a time you felt emotions with someone or showed empathy.
Empathy Presentations
What is Empathy? Presentation
Learn what empathy is and how to read faces / body language with the characters from Be Proud.
What is Empathy? Presentation
Join characters from Be Bigger to learn what empathy is and how to read faces / body language to predict how others feel.
What is Empathy? Presentation
Join characters from Be Bigger to learn what empathy is and how to read faces / body language to predict how others feel.
Empathy Lesson Plans
What is Empathy? Lesson Plan
Step by step lesson plan to teach children what empathy is, with links to supporting empathy worksheets.
Empathy Coloring Pages
What if Seed
Teach children to think of how their actions may impact others by planting a what if seed.
What if I do this?
Remind children to think about how the things they say and do could cause harm to others.
Empathy Quotes
Empathy Means...
Shareable quote image helps kids remember what empathy means in their everyday lives.
Empathy Posters
Empathy Means...
Download and print this empathy poster to help children remember to understand how others feel.
What if I do this...?
Download and print this empathy poster that reminds children to think about how their actions impact others' feelings.
Empathy Books
Be Proud
When a boy sneaks off to break mom's rules, a wise old tree helps him see that he doesn't feel very good about his choice. The story weaves in lessons on understanding your own emotions, recognizing others' feelings, and being aware of the impact your choices have on others.
Be Bigger
When a girl's feelings are hurt, she decides to be mean to her friend- that is, until a wise old tree helps her to recognize her own emotions, to see how her friend is feeling, and to choose a path that helps restore the friendship. Great for lessons on self awareness, empathy, caring.
What if
Two siblings keep saying and doing things that may be hurtful to others until a kind tree helps them learn to ask, "What if I do this, what could happen?". The story includes lessons in self awareness, understanding how your actions and words impact others, and seeing things from multiple perspectives.
Empathy Songs / Videos
Songs About Empathy / Caring
Explore our curated collection of some of the best songs about empathy and caring from YouTube content creators.
Videos About Empathy / Caring
Find videos about what empathy is, what it means to show empathy and more about caring. Videos by various YouTube content creators.
