What a Feeling Is Made Of: teacher key

Feelings, grade 7 edition, written for 7th grade. Scientists say an emotion has several parts that work together. Find out why two people can feel differently in the same place, and why we have emotions at all.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. Which part of an emotion do we really notice?
   • The part that happens fastest
   • The experiential part, what we feel in our bodies (answer)
   • The part in the heart
2. Why can two people feel different emotions in the same situation?
   • They have different thoughts about it (answer)
   • One of them is older
   • One of them is hiding a tear
3. What is masking?
   • Hiding a feeling
   • Showing an emotion you do not feel (answer)
   • Forgetting a feeling
4. Why might a shaky body not tell you which feeling you have?
   • Anger and fear can both make a person shaky (answer)
   • Only babies feel shaky
   • Shaking comes from memories
5. Which kind of tears wash the eyes with each blink?
   • Emotional tears
   • Reflex tears
   • Basal tears (answer)
6. How do babies change in how they show what they want as they near their first birthday?
   • They cry less and point (answer)
   • They stop showing feelings
   • They name their emotions

Words

• experiential: the felt part
• suppression: hiding a feeling
• masking: a pretend feeling
• basal: blink tears
• emotions: feelings