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Introduction
Introduction
Sleep quality is an important part of mental health and wellbeing in young adults. Research suggests that prioritising sleep quality could maximise mental health and wellbeing in young adults. We have seen an increase in screen time.
You will use data to determine the relationship between screen time, device use and its impact on sleep.
Throughout the sequence you will determine the relationship between sleep, the brain and mental fitness to propose, implement and evaluate strategies and actions that can promote sleep to support mental health and wellbeing.
By completing this sequence, you will:
learn about the importance of sleep and how much sleep the Australian sleep guidelines recommend
explore growth and sleep requirements and draw conclusions about why these change over the lifespan
explore the barriers to sleep
use data to determine relationship between screen time and device use and its impact on sleep
investigate the impact of screen use on the brain
evaluate strategies and actions that can promote sleep to support mental health and wellbeing.
Lesson overview
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you will use physical fitness messages to determine the definition of mental fitness.
You will explore the role of sleep on the brain and create a relationship between the brain and what it needs for optimal opportunity for mental fitness.
If research suggests that we should focus on the mind as much as we do the body, then how do we prepare for that? What drives our mental fitness? How do we prepare for it?
Activity 1 - Physical fitness v mental fitness
Activity 1 - Physical fitness v mental fitness
Physical fitness is carrying out all our daily tasks without fatigue. With the increase in technology and its ability to reduce the labour of our tasks it could be making us unfit. To improve our fitness levels we play team sports, go to the gym, take the dog for a walk, go surfing or go for a ride. There are so many options both online, via apps and face to face to choose from to improve our physical fitness to suit everyone’s likes and needs. The opportunities are endless!
Task 1
Task 1
Use your PDHPE workbook for the following activities.
Write a definition for mental fitness.
Is there an equal emphasis on exercising the body to develop an individual’s physical fitness and exercising the mind to develop an individual’s mental fitness? Why or why not? Explain your answer.
If the circulatory (heart and lungs), the muscular system and skeletal system are responsible for physical fitness, what part of the body needs support for optimal mental fitness?
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Our brains carry thoughts along neural pathways. These pathways are like ruts that have been created and reinforced over time. If you always take the same route to work, you may notice that you can get there on "autopilot." When we repeat a certain thought pattern many times, that neural pathway is reinforced, and the thinking becomes automatic.
It is this human part of the brain that we can develop and re-program. With the same deliberateness that we strengthen certain muscles or fine-tune a movement, we can create neural pathways that better serve us and benefit our lives. This is the essence of what we mean by mental fitness training.
Task 2 - Questions
Task 2 - Questions
What is the role of the brain for mental fitness?
After injury or intense physical activity, what is the usual advice for the body (muscles and joints) restore itself or recover?
How do you think the brain restores itself or recovers? Give some examples of what strategies help the brain restore or recover.
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Activity 2 - Exercising the mind
Activity 2 - Exercising the mind
Task
Task
Answer the following questions in your PDHPE workbook.
Record three things you have learnt.
The clip likens the brain to a hard drive? How does sleep support learning?
Sleep is a brain and body tune up? What does this mean?
How does sleep during puberty support growth?
What makes sleep quality? Why do we need quality sleep?
Is there a connection between the brain, mental exercise and sleep? Yes/No? Why/Why not?
The Importance of Sleep - what's in it for you?
Duration 4:57
Handing in your work
Handing in your work
Don't forget to hand in the work you completed today!
Your teacher will have told you to do one of the following:
Upload any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your Learning Management system (MS Teams, Google Classroom for example).
Email any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your teacher.
Make sure you keep any hand written work you did in your exercise book or folder as your teacher may need to see these when you are back in class.
Student reflection
Student reflection
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