Overview and Background: Unit: Stress Management

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Name: Randy Leroux

Health : Stress Management

Cheney High : Grades 9 : Aug. - May.

Title:	Stress Management
Topics:	Stress management, Health
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Start Date:	-

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Summary: Students will look at factors that create stress and methods to lessen stress in their lives.

Print Materials Needed:
Glencoe health book and Teacher resource book

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Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

National:	National
Title:	Health and Physical Education
Standard(s):	-NPH-H.9-12.3.7 – Evaluate strategies to manage stress -NPH-H.9-12.1.3 – Explain the impact of personal health behaviors on the functioning of body systems. -NPH-H.9-12.2.6 – Analyze situations requiring professional health services

Understandings:

Stress has an impact on student’s health

There are strategies to manage stress

Stress is the body's reaction to any situation. .

Essential Questions:

What impact does stress have on student’s health?

What are the strategies that will manage stress?

Knowledge and Skills:

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The difference between distress and eustress.

How the body responds to stressors.

Different ways to deal with stress.

S

Explain the difference between distress and eustress

How to describe the signs of stress.

Analyze the different ways to handle stress.

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessment Summary:
Each student will prepare a survey for the freshmen students at school that asks what students believe to be the top ten stressors, the top ten ways to manage these stressors, and the top 5 ways the stressors impact the functioning of the body’s systems. Rank responses by age and gender. Then make bar graphs to illustrate the results.

Student Directions:

You have been hired by a local school district to conduct a survey on factors that cause stress and devise recommendations for students to reduce stress. You need to prepare a report that includes the results of your survey and gives specific suggestions for students to reduce the level of stress that they experience in their daily lives.

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Other assessment evidence to be collected:

Homework – The student will take a pre and post assessment analysis on their personal stress.

Quiz - - The quiz consists of 10 multiple-choice questions, 20 matching, and 20 true false questions. The quiz content includes unit vocabulary, definitions, and recalling of facts.

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Learning Activities:

Students are given a pre-test and post test on their personal stress.

Background discussion on stressors, managing strategies, and health consequences.

Seventh Heaven video “A cry for help”. Question and answer discussion.

Teacher lecture with class discussion.

Informational worksheets on the managing stress.

Peer critique of stress surveys. Each student will critique the classes survey worksheets. The students will then be able to update and finalize their surveys. Surveys will then be posted around the classroom for other classes to view

Story critique - Each student will critique a short story. How the main characters respond to their stressors and greatly affects the plot or the story line.

Students are given a post test on their personal stress.