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

Conflict Management Techniques
Grade(s): 4-12
The objective of this lesson is to identify personal management style(s), develop an awareness of strategies used in each conflict management style.  It is useful to assess our predominant conflict management style(s) because we tend to get stuck in one or two styles and apply them inappropriately.  The emphasis is not on judging any style right or wrong.  Each person determines their predominant conflict management style.
http://www.youth.net/cec/cecmisc/cecmisc.33.txt
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

Samaritans: "Aggression and Bullying"
Grade(s): 8-10
In this lesson students will be able to appreciate the motivations behind aggressive behavior, and to discuss how to avoid a build up of frustration and an aggressive outburst.  These values will be taught by being able to put into practice ways of managing aggression, and dealing with people who bully.
http://www.samaritans.org/pdf/B5AggressionBullying.pdf
Free

Samaritans: "Communication and Listening Skills"
Grade(s): 8-10
This lesson focuses on students learning that to resolve conflicts and communicate they must understand good listening requires two-way communication. 
http://www.samaritans.org/PDF/A2Communication.pdf
Free

Samaritans: "Dealing with Conflict"
Grade(s): 8-10
This is the first of two lessons in citizenship on the theme of conflict. The focus here is on understanding conflict and responding assertively to it. This will prepare students for the next lesson which looks at personal and global conflict.
http://www.samaritans.org/pdf/C4DealingWithConflict.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

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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