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Resilience Project Lesson 12:

Positive vs Negative Thinking

ELF: Understanding positive and negative thoughts

Success Criteria:

• I can identify positive and negative thoughts

• I can illustrate a situation that may trigger a range of thoughts and emotions

• I can compare positive and negative ways of thinking in a situation

1. Have a think about the following questions and brainstorm some answers in your STEAM/Inquiry book:

• 'Have you ever had a time where you have seen the positive in a citation but a friend can only see the negative? Explain.' OR

• 'Have you ever had a time where you have seen the negative in a situation but a friend can only see the positive? Explain.'

2. Have you ever heard of the following sayings?:

• 'Look on the bright side'

• 'Glass half full'

• 'Glass half empty'

3. In your STEAM/Inquiry book, write down what you think these sayings mean.

4. Watch the video above.

5. In Lesson 12 of your Resilience Project Journals, illustrate a scenario. Then write a negative way to think about the scenario and a positive way to think about it.

Resilience Project Lesson 12:

Gratitude VIPS

ELF: Expressing gratitude to others

Success Criteria:

• I can express gratitude towards others

• I can reflect why people are special to me

• I can give a compliment, a quality, or a positive trait towards another

DID YOU KNOW! It takes up to seven positive comments to counteract a negative comment!

Today you are going to be showing gratitude towards your peers by celebrating one another!

1. In your STEAM/Inquiry, write a paragraph explaining why the following statement is true - “Everyone is important and special.”

2. Click on your class - 6C / 6M. Write something that celebrates each person in your class. This may be a compliment, a quality or a positive trait of that person, etc. Write your name at the end of the comment. You may add slides if you run out of space, just remember to include the person’s name at the top of their slide. Remember to be kind and appropriate. If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all!

3. Have a read through the slide with your name on it. Then, complete the reflection sentence in your Student Journal (Lesson 12) - “The activity today made me feel…”. You can also write down some of the compliments you’ve received into your Student Journal.

Resilience Project Lesson 11: Regulating Emotions

ELF: Recognise and manage negative emotions

Success Criteria:

• I can list five strategies to regulate negative emotions

Watch the video above.

All of us experience negative emotions at some point. It is important that we understand these emotions and we don't let them hijack our brain or behaviour. As we get older, we develop different strategies to control our thoughts. Often when experiencing a strong negative emotion, we lose perspective and think it is going to last longer and be much more worse than it actually is. This is not the case. We can use strategies to help with these negative emotions and find ourselves having positive thoughts again.

Now think of appropriate strategies you have used when you have felt angry or frustrated.

Some examples might be exercising, screaming into a pillow, scrunching up a piece of paper, tightly wrapping yourself in a blanket, etc.

In your Resilience Project journals, list three to five of your favourite strategies that you could use. Highlight the one that you can use this week.

Resilience Project Lesson 11: Natural Emotions

ELF: Develop strategies to deal with strong emotions

Success Criteria:

• I can reflect on times when I have felt strong emotions

• I can explain why some coping strategies can be effective

Watch the video above.

In your Student Journals, write down three strong emotions you have recently felt.

Fill in the corresponding table with the emotion, physical and mental responses, and the strategies you used to cope.

Resilience Project Lesson 10: Book of Awesome

ELF: Identify small things that we can be grateful for

Success Criteria: I can recognise ‘three awesomes’ in my everyday life

• Have a think about the following questions and brainstorm some answers in your STEAM/Inquiry book:

  • “Has something ever happened to you where you thought, ‘wow, this is awesome’?”

  • “Was it something so small that you have thought, ‘am I the only one that thinks this is awesome?'”

• Neil Pasricha wrote a book about ‘awesomeness’ called ‘The Book of Awesome’. In this book, he focuses on the little things we tend to miss each day, such as comfortable silences, finding money in your pocket, a great teacher.

• Watch video above

• After watching, write three ‘awesomes’ in your resilience project journal.

• Now, on the coloured A4 sheet that we have provided you with, design and illustrate your three ‘awesomes.’ Bring this to school when we return so that we can collate it with the rest of the class to make a class 'Book of Awesome’.

Resilience Project Lesson 10: Empathy vs Sympathy

ELF: Understand the difference between empathy and sympathy

Success Criteria: I can explain the difference between empathy and sympathy

Empathy: The capacity to understand and feel what another person is feeling.

Sympathy: The feeling of pity or sorrow for someone else’s misfortune.

• Watch the video above

• After watching, brainstorm some reasons why you think Kayla’s coach is empathetic not sympathetic.

• In your resilience project journal, write down the difference between empathy and sympathy using examples, drawings and personal experiences to illustrate the answer.