Fifth Grade ACES

Learning Objectives:

• Students will be able to define DIVERSITY.

• Students will recognize that there are many differences we have in our world that benefit everyone.

• Students will identify different elements of identity. Students will understand that all identities are different and one is not better than another, they are just different.

• Students will identify the value of diversity and develop respect for differences.

• Students will practice appropriately and respectfully talking about differences.

• Students will understand what a STEREOTYPE is. Students will be able to identify a stereotype vs a statement or fact.

• Students will be challenged to think about stereotypes and whether situations are fair, injustice or disrespectful.

Learning Objectives:

• Students will define COPING SKILLS.

• Students will define STRESS.

• Students will be able to identify internal and external stressors in their lives.

• Students will review the brain's stress responses - fight, flight, and freeze.

• Students will identify helpful and non-helpful coping strategies.

• Students will learn and practice short term physical strategies to cope with stress.

  • • Deep breathing strategies

    • Muscle tension reduction strategies

    • Grounding techniques

• Students will be talk about long term healthy choices that reduce the stress response.

  • • Sleep

    •  Good nutrition

    • Exercise

• Students will learn and practice mental strategies to cope with stress.

  • • Review the cognitive triangle - how our thoughts, feelings, and actions are connected

    • Self-talk

Learning Objectives:

• Students will be able to explain what their EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING part of their brain does.

• Students will understand why developing executive functioning skills are important to academic success and success in life.

• Students will discuss how the skill of planning helps them be successful in school.  Students will learn some strategies to improve their planning skills  and practice a planning exercise.

• Students will discuss how the skill of organization helps them be successful. Students will learn strategies to improve their organization skills and practice an organizing exercise.

• Students will discuss how the skill of time management helps them be successful. Students will learn strategies to improve their time management and practice a time management exercise. 

• Students will discuss how our working memory helps us be successful. Students will learn how to improve their working memory.

• Students will discuss how self-control affects our success on a task. Students will learn about ways to improve one's self-control skills.

• Students will learn how attention, task initiation, and perseverance affect one's ability to be successful.

• Students will define META-COGNITION and FLEXIBLE THINKING and understand how these affect academic success. Students will participate in an exercise to help them understand these concepts.