General Information:
Title: Inside Out
Producer: Jonas Rivera
Year: 2015
Length: 102 minutes
Rating: PG
Overview:
11-year-old Riley’s life is turned upside down when she and her parents move to San Francisco.
She needs her emotions (Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust) to help guide her though the new city, house, school, and people. This movie really illustrates learning how to handle and express emotions, particularly with a new life change such as a move. It also helps kids learn what each feeling is like, and how they are different from each other. We all have many emotions, and they’re all an essential part of life. This is a great movie to help teach the importance of communicating emotions clearly for healthy relationships, and to help get through life’s challenges.
Click here to access a short clip of the film (The ending scene with Riley communicating her emotions to her parents)
Core Integration:
When trying to integrate this into a core topic, you could probably include this into a Language Arts lesson about Emotions. After showing the movie, you could analyze and learn about the emotions Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust. Help them recognize what feelings look like “on the outside” by how Riley acted, and what caused her to act that way. Have them draw pictures of each emotion, with illustrations of their own experiences with those emotions. (For example, for Joy, have them draw pictures of what makes them happy, or specific events that made them happy.) Learning how to identify emotions and point out feelings and events that led to those feelings in text/ media is a great way to integrate Language Arts and the health topic of communicating emotions in relationships.
NHES Standards:
NHES 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
- MEH1.2.1- Explain the importance of talking with parents and other trusted adults about feelings
o HBO 1- Express feelings in a healthy way
o HBO 8- Establish and maintain healthy relationships
- MEH1.2.2- Identify appropriate ways to express and deal with feelings.
o HBO 1- Express feelings in a healthy way
o HBO 3- Prevent and manage interpersonal conflict, in healthy ways
o HBO 4- Prevent and manage emotional stress and anxiety in healthy ways
NHES 4: Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
- MEH4.2.1- Demonstrate how to effectively communicate needs, wants, and feelings in healthy ways.
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.2– Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.5- Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.6- Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.3- With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.9- With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.