Periodic Table Of Emotions-Emotions Chart

Human emotions are organised in a visual grid modelled on the structure of a periodic table. Each compact cell carries an abbreviation and a full feeling label, allowing related positive, difficult, and social emotions to be scanned within one poster. Terms range from tenderness and compassion to dread, loneliness, frustration, jealousy, and blame. A basic-emotions key provides a broader frame for interpreting the many named states.
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Updated Apr 27, 2025

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Special Education Needs (SEN), Social Skills, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Special Resources
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Emotions Chart, Emotions Poster
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In this resource, feelings and emotions take a play on the typical Periodic Table of Chemicals. Instead, this is the Periodic Table Of Emotions. there are 7 colour coded categories on this poster. The categories are; love, joy, surprise, anger, fear, disgust and sadness. The unique part about this poster is it gives students (and adults) related words within each emotion category. for example, in anger, there are these related words; rage, envy, frustration, bad mood and more. For joy there are these words; hope, happiness, ease, desire and more. For sadness, there are these words; disappointment, discouragement, loneliness, boredom, pessimism, and more. For love, there are these words; gratitude, pride, compassion, empathy, sympathy, and more. For fear the words are; shy, dread, nervousness, and more. This emotions chart is suitable for primary, middle and even secondary school classrooms. It may even be a great poster to put up in a science classroom alongside the Periodic Table of Chemicals, just for fun.

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Teaching tips

  • Use the abbreviations to locate a named feeling, then read the full label in its cell.

  • Compare nearby positive and difficult emotions when discussing how related states differ.

Skills covered

  • Emotion vocabulary — readers identify many specific feeling labels.

  • Visual categorisation — compact cells organise emotions within one chart.

  • Emotional differentiation — related states such as empathy, sympathy, nervousness, and stress can be compared.

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