Development and Application of Self-made Multifunctional Emotion Teaching Aids

Abstract

A multifunctional emotion-teaching aid was developed in this research to teach “Know the types of emotions”, “Understand the causes of emotions”, “Guide to express negative emotions”, and “Inspire positive emotions of gratitude”. The aid helped young children learn, understand, and express their emotions actively. The teaching aid enabled children to express negative emotions and trigger positive emotions of gratitude. Through teaching aids, children learned the six emotions of “happy, angry, sad, grateful, sorry, and afraid”. After the development of teaching aids was completed, the advantages and disadvantages of emotional education toys on the market were compared with those of the developed teaching aids. Quantitative and qualitative research was carried out to understand the effectiveness of the product. In terms of quantitative research, a questionnaire was created to test its reliability and validity. Another 100 education and security personnel were invited as research objects for the survey of satisfaction after the practical application of traditional emotion teaching toys and the developed teaching aids. The effectiveness of new teaching aids was validated with the result. The application of the research results and suggestions were presented for future related research.