Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.1F Grade 8 CPI 1

 

Standard: 2.1 - Wellness

 

Strand: F -  Social and Emotional Health 

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will analyze how personal assets, resiliency, and protective factors support healthy social and emotional development.

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        COPING WITH SELF - Students list six things that make them feel better when they are feeling down or depressed. Students develop a class list and create a poster, bulletin board display, or pamphlet based on the list. Variation: Students create children’s books that describe things that make you feel better (e.g., flying a kite, petting the dog, playing in the rain, a hug). Students illustrate the books and share with younger students.

Variation: Students plan and institute a peer helper program in the school. Invite representatives from the local high school to share their peer helper experiences and to assist with the development of a middle school program.