Standard of Learning

9.1The student will apply health knowledge and skills to the development and analysis of personal goals to achieve and maintain long-term health and wellness. Key concepts/skills include

1. the use of current research and scientific study to interpret nutrition principles;
2. a decision-making process for selecting health and wellness products;
3. development of personal standards regarding the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other harmful substances;
4. maintenance of health habits that promote personal wellness;
5. implementation of a fitness and lifetime physical activity plan;
6. establishment of personal parameters for appropriate and inappropriate health behaviors;
7. utilization of a personal system for coping with distress and stress;
8. management of deadlines;
9. peaceful resolution of conflicts.

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Understanding the Standard

The student will develop strategies for coping with stress, managing deadlines, and resolving conflicts.

Essential Knowledge and Skills:

The student will:

• identify stressful situations. (relationships, deadlines, grades, etc.)
• recognize ways to avoid situations that may cause stress.
• describe some ways of managing stress:
  • eat nutritious foods;
  • get adequate sleep;
  • manage your time - list tasks and how much time it will take to complete each task;
  • maintain a positive outlook;
  • be physically active;
  • learn how to relax; and
  • seek advice from others for solutions to your problem.
• analyze ways to resolve conflicts peacefully. (negotiation, mediation, arbitration - all forms of resolution deal with agreement)

Sample Lessons

In the Mix: "Living with…"
Grade(s): 7-12
This lesson is designated for middle and high school students.  The program shows other students who live with diseases and shows that it is manageable and that there others going through the same problems.
http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/educators/lessons/LivingWithGuide.pdf
Free

In the Mix: "Opening Your Heart To Your Grieving Teen"
Grade(s): 7-12
This lesson is designed for students in middle school up through high school.  In this lesson students will learn how things have changed since that day and stereotypes that have come from that day.
http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/educators/9-11_guide.html
Free

In the Mix: "What is Depression"
Grade(s): 9-12
In this lesson, students will examine teenage depression: what it's all about, how it feels, and ways to deal with it. This will be accomplished by small group discussions, recalling life events that trigger depressive episodes, self-reflection and topic research. Upon completion, students will have a better understanding of depression and how it relates to their own lives.
http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/educators/lessons/depression1/index.html
Free

Project Towards No Tobacco Use (TNT)
Grades 5-10
Model program to prevent or reduce tobacco use in youth. Ten core and 2 booster lessons. Includes effective refusal and coping skills; effects of media and advertisers; methods to build self-esteem; and strategies for advocating no tobacco use.
Sponsor: Department of Preventive Medicine, USC
Contact: http://www.etr.org
Cost

Romeo and Juliet – Suicide Prevention
Grade: 9
This lesson is designed for 9th grade students to gain an understanding of suicide and how it can be prevented; to apply knowledge of suicide to Romeo and Juliet.
http://www.nmatza.net/les.plan.samp.html
Free

Samaritans: "Emotional Health Awareness"
Grade(s): 8-10
This lesson plan is designated to teach eighth through tenth grade students to understand what emotional health is, and how it may vary over time.  The skill they hope to learn will be to challenge the stigma associated with poor mental health, and to be able to discuss ways of maintaining good mental health.
http://www.samaritans.org/pdf/A1EmotionalHealth.pdf
Free

Samaritans: "Understanding Depression"
Grade(s): 8-10
The purpose of this lesson is for students to hopefully learn about some of the ways they may be able to help someone who is feeling depressed.  Also they might be able to identify with why someone might be feeling depressed or hopeless, and to recognize the signs that indicate that someone is becoming depressed.
http://www.samaritans.org/pdf/B1UnderstandingDepression.pdf
Free

Samaritans: "Stress Management and Problem Solving"
Grade(s): 8-10
In this lesson students will be able to understand the term stress and be able to describe how level of demand, control and support affect how much stress a person feels.  Through some of the exercises they will see how other people experience feelings differently, and to appreciate how stress is the result of differing reactions to situations.
http://www.samaritans.org/pdf/B4StressManagement.pdf
Free

Samaritans: "Understanding Self-Injury"
Grade(s): 8-10
In this lesson students will be taught to challenge misconceptions surrounding self-injury, and to discuss routes to find help and support.  Along with learning those skills, students will also learn to practice how to help support someone who is self injuring and to understand what self-injury is.
http://www.samaritans.org/pdf/B2UnderstandingSelf.pdf
Free

Additional Instructional Resources

• Coping with Life's Stressors - http://www.coping.org/control/selfcont.htm
• Life Skills Program
• Peaceful Solutions - Communication Skill Building - http://www.thirteen.org/peaceful/strate.html
• Peer Mediation/Conflict Mediation Programs
• School Guidance Counselor

Assessment Ideas

The student will:

• develop a timeline for an assignment, list ways of meeting the deadline and how having a timeline reduces stress.
• identify sources of stress and how to handle them in ways that promote good physical, mental, and emotional health.
• research a historically significant event that was peacefully resolved using conflict resolution. (Check with social studies teacher)
• identify situations in which it makes sense to ignore and walk away from a potential conflict.
• explain how to resolve conflicts without violence.
• define mediation and describe how it can help resolve conflicts.

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