Mental and Emotional HealthBy: David Cantwell and MacKenzie Sprout

InTASC STANDARDINTASC 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. I mastered this standard through learning and developing age appropriate and challenging activities.

Indiana and National Health Education Standard

Standard 2 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.

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Student Objectives

● Increase knowledge about Stress● Apply Stress Relieving Methods● Analyze the Stressor and Influences● Modify Behavior● Evaluate and Improve Emotional Wellness

Equipment/Materials Needed

● Feelings Worksheet● Test Anxiety - Person Outline● Balloons● Playdough● Breathing Worksheet● Crayons/Markers● Pens

Preparation

● Plenty of balloons

● Plenty of play dough

● Worksheets printed off

● Youtube ready with video

Activities Description Section

Introductory Activity:● Talk about test anxiety/Stress● Test Anxiety - Person Outline● www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb16D43FCWQ

Lesson Activity:● Discussion over what stress is and test anxiety

o Feelings Worksheet● Balloon/Play dough (stress ball) activity

Closing Activity:● Deep Breathing & Worksheet

Assessment of Activities

● Ask the students to be able to write what stress anxiety means to them and what they can do to prevent being stressed about school subject tests.

● Feelings Worksheet○ Identify stressful feelings and stressors○ Friends you can talk about your feelings with○ Ways to cope with your Stress

Accommodations/Success for allHow to increase or modify difficulty? How to decrease difficulty?

● To increase difficulty I will make the stress reliever balloons bigger and more complicated to make, use more educated worksheets and larger terms for them to understand test anxiety.

● To decrease difficulty I can make the stress reliever balloons before class time and just pass them out to the students. I can also make the worksheets easier grade level and explain more about what stress anxiety really is.

Safety Concerns (if any)

● 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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