Sophomores 2/26
Grade: 10
Topic: Resilience - Tools to Manage Challenges
Objectives:
- Students can describe resilience
- Students can identify supports that help me manage challenging situations
- Students understand they always have control over how they choose to respond to negative situations
Procedures:
- View Video
2. Discussion
What is Resilience?
- Recovering or adapting well to challenging situations
- Bouncing back from negative events or managing big problems in your life.
Who are some people that help you manage challenges
- Parents
- Teachers
- Peers/friends
What are some activities that help them manage challenges
- Physical activity (walking, sports, sleep)
- Artistic activity (draw, sing, music)
- Mental messages (What they say to themselves ‘I can handle this’)
- Writing/journaling
- Mindfulness
- Deep breathing
- Takeaways
- Try to put a positive spin on a negative situation
- Acknowledge that something bad happened, it stinks, they can’t control it, but they can control their response
- Ask for and receive support from others
3. View Video Motivational video
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjejTQdK5OI (2:48)
- Pick yourself up and be stronger for it.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZlXWp6vFdE (3:14)
- Get up, Don’t Give up!