Mental & Emotional Health MacKenzie Sprout & Dave Cantwell

InTASC STANDARD INTASC Standard #1: Learner Development The teacher understands how learners grow and develop, recognizing that patterns of learning and development vary individually within and across the cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and physical areas, and designs and implements developmentally appropriate and challenging learning experiences. Description For this assignment, my partner and I were asked to create a lesson plan through PowerPoint that dealt with Mental and Emotional Health. After creating the PowerPoint, we were to prepare a 20 minute presentation where we talked about the different activities that were involved in our lesson, the materials needed to complete the lesson, student objectives, preparation, and finally the Indiana state and National Health Education Standards. Rationale In order to demonstrate our understanding of InTASC Standard #1: Learner Development, we chose to include our PowerPoint presentation on Mental and Emotional Health. Throughout this document we used various academic techniques to create a learning environment for students with varying developmental learning styles. In addition our lesson plan challenged our students to improve in their cognitive, social, and emotional areas of learning.

National and Indiana Health Education Standards Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology and other factors on health behaviors. 1.2.1 Describe how the family influences personal health behaviors. Standard 5 Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health. 1.5.1 Describe a health-related decision.

Student Objectives Increase knowledge about Stress Apply Stress Relieving Methods Analyze the Stressors and Influences Modify Behavior Evaluate and Improve Emotional Wellness

Equipment & Materials Needed Feelings Worksheet Test Anxiety - Person Outline Balloons Play dough Breathing Worksheet Crayons/Markers Pens

Pre-Class Preparations Plenty of balloons Plenty of play dough Separate the play dough into baggies Worksheets printed off Staple and combine worksheets in the correct order YouTube ready with video

Lesson Outline Talk about test anxiety/Stress Introductory Activity: Let it go (Testing Parody) Talk about test anxiety/Stress Test Anxiety - Person Outline Lesson Activity: Feelings Worksheet Balloon/Play dough (stress ball) activity Closing Activity: Deep Breathing Methods Breathing worksheet

Assessment of Activities Identify stressful feelings Identify friends and family members you can talk about your feelings with Feelings Worksheet When to use each method to cope with your Stress Stress Ball Breathing

Safety Concerns When making the stress reliever balloons, this could cause some safety issues with stretching the balloons and trying to fit the play dough into the balloon. This has to be done with the right age group.

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