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Thinking sheet · Feelings and kindness
Build a Kindness Robot
Design a robot whose only job is to be kind. Label its parts and decide who it helps first.
- Grades
- 1–5
- Time
- about 30 minutes
- Kids practice
- kindness, design thinking, labeling a diagram
What kids do
“This robot has one job: making someone’s day better. Design it!”
- Draw your kindness robot and label its parts
- Its 3 best parts and what they do
- My robot’s name:
- Who will it help first, and how? Could I do that too?
How to run it
- Brainstorm kind jobs as a class first: carrying bags, cheering up, sharing snacks.
- Ask for at least three labels with arrows.
- The last question is the heart of it: what can a person do without the robot?
Talk about it
- Which robot idea could we do ourselves this week?
- Who in our school could use a kindness robot?
- Is a kind act still kind if nobody sees it?
Take it further
Do one of the robot’s jobs for real, then draw what happened.
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