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Colorado Education

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Discovery School

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Standard 3: Demonstrate the ability to practice behaviors that enhance health and reduce risks.

By the end of grade five, students should be able to:

• demonstrate use of positive self-management skills (i.e., ways to manage frustration and emotions, such as fear, anger, sadness, disappointment, happiness);
• demonstrate strategies to resist negative peer pressure;
• demonstrate positive strategies to reduce stress and anger in relation to identified stressors.

Lesson can be integrated with Language Arts.

Grade Focus: 3rd - 4th

This lesson is designed to make each child aware that stress has a major effect on his/her feelings. Students will learn that all human beings experience a certain amount of stress and stress can be thought of as negative or positive energy. This is just one lesson out of many that helps students identify and deal with stress. The activity involves students placing labeled cans that represent various feelings into a sack, and then expressing why they have those feelings.

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Standard 4: Analyze the influence of personal beliefs, culture, mass media, technology, and other factors on health.

By the end of grade five, students should be able to:

• compare and contrast different types of family, social, and community relationships;
• recognize influences of mass media and culture on self-perception, feelings, and relationships
• recognize how qualities of good character enhance emotional and social health.

Lesson can be integrated with Language Arts.

Grade Focus: 1st-4th

This activity allows an opportunity for students to reflect on who they are and share their information with the class. They will recognize good qualities and value their importance. Students will create a collage that symbolizes concepts of their personalities.

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Standard 5: Use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.

By the end of grade five, students should be able to:

• demonstrate effective communication skills to build and maintain healthy relationships with parents, family, friends, and other adults;
• demonstrate ways to communicate care, consideration, and respect for self, for parents and family, and for the diversity of others;
• demonstrate nonviolent strategies to resolve conflicts;
• demonstrate appropriate ways to express emotion.

Lesson can be integrated with Language Arts.

Grade Focus: 1st - 3rd

This lesson will involve students in improving their self-concept and practice cooperation. They will give and receive compliments. Students will also work together to complete a task and will see the role cooperation plays.

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Standard 6: Use goal-setting and decision-making skills to enhance health.

By the end of grade five, students should be able to:

• use an age-appropriate decision-making model for emotional and social health decisions;
• assess personal strengths and weaknesses in promoting and maintaining healthful relationships;
• identify when help is needed in making decisions and setting goals.

Lesson can be integrated with Social Studies.

Grade Focus: 4th - 5th

This lesson involves the students in the value of self-determination. The activity involves students in role play, which will allow them to face real life problems and make critical value judgments.

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Standard 7: Demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

By the end of grade five, students should be able to:

• demonstrate the ability to influence and support others in making positive mental health choices.

Lesson can be integrated with Language Arts.

Grade Focus: K - 3rd

This activity teaches students how to be brave when dealing with fear. After listening to Brave Little Monster by Ken Baker, students discuss how the main character dealt with his fears. Students will also create a puppet and use the puppet to help them explain how they would respond to different types of fear.