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Periodic Table Of Emotions-Emotions Chart

Expand feeling vocabulary with a periodic-table-style chart that places labels such as gratitude, nervousness, empathy, and frustration in compact reference cells.
Grades
Not Grade Specific
Pages
1
File type
PDF
Preparation
Print ready

Updated Apr 27, 2025

Subject
Mental Health, Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
Topic
Emotions chart, Emotions poster
Resource types
Posters, Classroom Decor
Preparation
Print ready

Product description

From the author

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 color 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 elementary, middle and even high 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 & learning objectives

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 categorization — compact cells organize emotions within one chart.

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

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

How can I use it without asking children to share personal feelings?

Choose a character from a class story and discuss which words might describe the character's experience. Students can explain their choices using details from the story.

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Core concepts

  • Human emotions

  • Feeling vocabulary

  • SEL chart

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