Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.1F Grade 4 CPI 6

 

Standard: 2.1 - Wellness

 

Strand: F -  Social and Emotional Health 

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 6 - The student will explain and demonstrate ways to cope with rejection, loss, and separation.

 

Grade: 4

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        STRESS FREE ME - Students create a poem, story, song, or comic book that focuses on a character coping with stress in positive, healthful ways. Students share the creative works with classmates.

Variation: Students draw a picture of themselves in a stressful situation. Then they draw a second picture illustrating the effective use of coping strategies to address the same situation. Frame the pictures and display them.

 

·        WHO ARE YOU? - Use puppets or stuffed animals to introduce three characters that represent the ways people handle conflicts:

Mouse: Meek, weak, doesn’t stick up for his/her own ideas
Monster: Bully, pushes ideas on others
Me: A balance between a monster and a mouse

Model how each character might handle the same conflict situation. Allow student volunteers to participate in the demonstration. Then divide the class into small groups, and give each group a situation. Students determine if the character in the situation is responding as a mouse, monster, or “me”. If the mouse or monster is in control, the group rewrites the situation to handle the conflict more appropriately. Groups present the original role-play and then the rewrite. As the students present their skits, they discuss the skills needed to manage conflict in a healthy way.