Anxiety Lesson Plan: Self-Awareness
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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic Anxiety, and supports the standard of understanding one’s own emotions, thoughts, and values and how they influence behavior across contexts. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.
Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Prompt students:
- Think of a time when you felt worried or nervous about something. What made you feel that way? What did you do to make yourself feel better?
Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE
- Read the description on the Anxiety topic page.
- Play the Movie, pausing to check for understanding.
Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS
Assign Anxiety Quiz, prompting students to apply essential literacy skills while demonstrating what they learned about this topic.
Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND
Students express what they learned about anxiety while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student needs.
- Make-a-Movie: Produce a tutorial that explains how to calm anxiety through deep breathing and mindfulness.
- Make-a-Map: Create a concept map organizing the mental and physical effects of anxiety.
- Creative Coding: Code a comic to show how you might support a friend who is experiencing anxiety.
More to Explore
Social-Emotional Learning Collection: Continue to build understanding around empathy and respect with BrainPOP’s six-week SEL curriculum that addresses the five CASEL competencies.
Related BrainPOP Topics: Deepen understanding of anxiety with these topics: Mindfulness, Stress, and Self-Esteem.
Teacher Support Resources:
- Learning Activities Modifications: Strategies to meet ELL and other instructional and student needs.
- Learning Activities Support: Resources for best practices using BrainPOP.
