Learning Activity: Deal With It (Stress in Elementary-Life)
Objective: Students will identify stress in their life, and describe healthy strategies for dealing with stress using Buncee.
Hook: Students will view the video found here twice. The first time, just to view it for enjoyment. The second time, students will take notes about what happens to the body when a person is stressed.
Learning Activities:
Teacher will help students explore stress management through lessons in PE, Art, and Music.
Hook: Students will view the video found here twice. The first time, just to view it for enjoyment. The second time, students will take notes about what happens to the body when a person is stressed.
Learning Activities:
- Students will discuss with partners when stress is good, and when it is bad. Students will talk about specific examples in their lives.
- Students will continue to work in partners to complete the Stress Mail Activity found here. The activity helps students pinpoint causes of stress, and brainstorm solutions.
- Students will read and annotate this article for ideas on how to manage stress.
Teacher will help students explore stress management through lessons in PE, Art, and Music.
- PE Lesson:
- Teacher and students will discuss the benefits of physical activity for reducing stress. Before tests or stressful lessons, the teacher and students can decide on a noncompetitive PE game (competition can add stress levels for some kids) to take place beforehand to lower anxieties that come with tests.
- Suggested PE activities can be found here. (Freeze Dance, Yoga)
- Teacher and students will discuss the benefits of physical activity for reducing stress. Before tests or stressful lessons, the teacher and students can decide on a noncompetitive PE game (competition can add stress levels for some kids) to take place beforehand to lower anxieties that come with tests.
- Art Lesson:
- Teacher and students will discuss the advantages to calming art activities to reduce stress. This article discusses the ways playing with clay can help reduce stress. The teacher can assign students an art activity to depict themselves (or a character in a book) through art in order to reduce stress before tests or other stressful events.
- A Homemade Stress Ball is a cheap, easy art activity for students
- Music Lesson:
- Teacher and students can explore different kinds of music to find the most soothing or calming sounds for their class.
- Students can study this article which claims to have scientifically proven the most relaxing song in the world. Students will analyze and annotate the article, then create an argument either for or against the article's claim.
Finally, after exploring Stress and all the various aspects of how it can appear in our lives and ways to manage it, students will prepare a Buncee presentation to depict a stress-causer in their life, or life in general, then show at least three ways to manage that particular kind of stress. Students must write in complete sentences to back their claims.