Standard of Learning

9.1 The 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

"24 Gold Coins In A Day - Teachable Moment"
Grade(s): 5-12
This is a lesson designed for students to gain an understanding on time management.  The students are given a message, then discuss and think of activities they can do in that http://www.lessonplanspage.com/O24GoldCoinsInADay
Free

Organizational Skills
Grade(s): K-12
Upon completion of this lesson students will understand how to become more organized and will display good time management techniques.  Additionally, students will be able to better handle stress and change.
http://www.daltonstate.edu/faculty/lsweenie/work_ethics/
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

Striking Out Stress: A “Gallery Walk” Activity
Grade(s): 6-12
A teacher-submitted lesson that interactively teaches about stress and how to cope with its effects.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/02-1/lesson045.shtml
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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