Learning Targets:

In this unit, you will monitor personal stressors in your life and assess multiple techniques.

In this unit, you will set a goal to reduce life stressors in a way that promotes health and overall well being.

Student Success Criteria:

I can…

1. Identify personal stressors in my life.

2. Assess multiple techniques to manage and hopefully reduce my stressors.

3. Set a goal to reduce life stressors in a healthy way. 

5.1 M Monitor personal stressors and assess techniques for managing them.

6.2M Set a goal to reduce life stressors in a health-enhancing way.

1.9M Classify personal stressors at home, in school, and with peers.

5.2M Compare various coping mechanisms for managing stress. 

5.3M Analyze situations when it is important to seek help with stress, loss, an unrealistic body image, and depression.

6.1M  Evaluate how preventing and managing stress and getting help for mental and social problems can help a person achieve short- and long-term goals.

7.2M Practice effective coping mechanisms and strategies for managing stress.

1. What effect does stress have on me mentally, physically, and emotionally? 

2. How can reducing life stressors enhance your overall well being and lifestyle? 

3. Why should I be mindful and monitor stressors and the effect they have on me?

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LP: DEFINE what a personal stressor is. 

QC: In three sentences, explain what a personal stressor is and how it impacts you. 

LP: Give EXAMPLES and NONEXAMPLES of ways that you can monitor personal stress. 

QC: Using the table provided, create a list of examples and nonexamples that can help when monitoring personal stressors. 

LP: EVALUATE the effectiveness of various techniques that work to manage stress and distinguish preferred methods. 

QC: Using your results from the different techniques sampled, evaluate the effectiveness of at least two techniques by filling out the table. Make sure to include…

1. The name of the technique

2. Pros/cons about the technique 

3. Overall rating of the technique 

LP: DESCRIBE the importance of setting a goal. 

QC: In two sentences, explain the importance of setting a goal. 

LP: DEFINE what it means to do something in a “health-enhancing way”.

QC: In three sentences, define what it means to do something in a “health-enhancing way”. 

LP: PREDICT the impact that goal setting can have on levels of stress. 

QC: Using the graph provided, explain the trend that you predict will happen when someone is able to…

1. Set goals

2. Meet their goals

3. Create new goals that challenge them in a healthy way

In one paragraph…

1. Explain what a personal stressor is

2. Describe how someone can assess (judge) their levels of stress

3. Explain why it is important to monitor stressors in your life.