Stress Lesson Plan: Personal Health

Grade Levels: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic Stress, and supports an understanding of strategies to manage stress. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.

Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

Providing the option to discuss with a partner or respond in a journal, ask students:

  • What kinds of challenges do you face in school?
  • What strategies help you get through challenges?

Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE

  • Read the description on the Stress topic page.
  • Play the Movie, pausing to check for understanding. 
  • Assign Related Reading and have students read one of the articles. Partner them with someone who read a different article to share what they learned with each other.

Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS 

Assign Stress Challenge and 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 stress 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 PSA that identifies the difference between short- and long-term stress and ways to overcome each type.
  • Make-a-Map: Create a concept map identifying situations that can cause stress and strategies to manage each situation.
  • Creative Coding: Code a conversation between two friends that demonstrates a strategy to relieve stress. 

More to Explore  

Related BrainPOP Topics: Deepen understanding of ways to manage stress with these topics: Getting Help, Mindfulness, and Sleep.

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Lesson Plan Common Core State Standards Alignments

Related:

    Filed as:  3-5, 6-8, 9-12, BrainPOP, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.3, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.3, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.7, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.3