1. Mental & Emotional Health
MacKenzie Sprout
&
Dave Cantwell

2. InTASC STANDARD INTASC Standard #1: Learner Development The teacher understands how learners grow and develop, recognizing that patterns of learning and development vary individually within and across the cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and physical areas, and designs and implements developmentally appropriate and challenging learning experiences.
Description For this assignment, my partner and I were asked to create a lesson plan through PowerPoint that dealt with Mental and Emotional Health. After creating the PowerPoint, we were to prepare a 20 minute presentation where we talked about the different activities that were involved in our lesson, the materials needed to complete the lesson, student objectives, preparation, and finally the Indiana state and National Health Education Standards. Rationale In order to demonstrate our understanding of InTASC Standard #1: Learner Development, we chose to include our PowerPoint presentation on Mental and Emotional Health. Throughout this document we used various academic techniques to create a learning environment for students with varying developmental learning styles. In addition our lesson plan challenged our students to improve in their cognitive, social, and emotional areas of learning.

3. National and Indiana Health Education Standards
Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology and other factors on health behaviors.
1.2.1 Describe how the family influences personal health behaviors.
Standard 5
Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.
1.5.1 Describe a health-related decision.

4. Student Objectives Increase knowledge about Stress
Apply Stress Relieving Methods
Analyze the Stressors and Influences
Modify Behavior
Evaluate and Improve Emotional Wellness

5. Equipment & Materials Needed
Feelings Worksheet
Test Anxiety - Person Outline
Balloons
Play dough
Breathing Worksheet
Crayons/Markers
Pens

6. Pre-Class Preparations
Plenty of balloons
Plenty of play dough
Separate the play dough into baggies
Worksheets printed off
Staple and combine worksheets in the correct order
YouTube ready with video

7. Lesson Outline Talk about test anxiety/Stress Introductory Activity:
Let it go (Testing Parody)
Talk about test anxiety/Stress
Test Anxiety - Person Outline
Lesson Activity:
Feelings Worksheet
Balloon/Play dough (stress ball) activity
Closing Activity:
Deep Breathing Methods
Breathing worksheet

8. Assessment of Activities
Identify stressful feelings
Identify friends and family members you can talk about your feelings with
Feelings Worksheet
When to use each method to cope with your Stress
Stress Ball
Breathing

9. Safety Concerns
When making the stress reliever balloons, this could cause some safety issues with stretching the balloons and trying to fit the play dough into the balloon. This has to be done with the right age group.

10. Reference Page
Gentry, L. (2013, May 3). Crozet School Counseling. Retrieved March 15, 2015, from
18 Coping Skills: Strategies for Children and Teens - The Helpful Counselor. (2014, February 17) Retrieved March 15, 2015, from
Parkhurst, A. (2014, January 1). Test Anxiety Groups - Sandy Ridge Elementary School Counseling. Retrieved March 15, 2015, from counseling/test-anxiety-groups
le Lake Elementary. (2015, January 1). Let It Go (Testing Parody). Retrieved March 15, 2015, from
Olson, Kelli. (2013). Mental and Emotional Health Activity Pages. TeachersPayTeachers. Retrieved March 17, 2015 from: