Lesson 1 of 3

Teaching Strategies and lesson

structure:
Prompts for your planning:

What you as teacher

will do?
Beginning
Instruct students

How will the lesson and ideas be introduced

and made relevant to the students?
How will you engage the class?

What specific teaching and learning

strategies will you use for the lesson?
What exactly will the students be required
to do and what will be your role?
How will you create a collaborative learning
environment and how will the classroom be
arranged to support this?
How will you include all learners? What
Curriculum and Pedagogy adaptations or
modifications will be required?
How will you differentiate learning
opportunities for diverse learners?
How will you ensure the students are ontask and what strategies will you use to
support positive behaviour?

Talk about the fact that

this theme will go
across multiple weeks,
and we will discuss
different things to do
with stress.
Middle
Guide
discussion/mindmap.
Wirte answers on the
board.
Ask students if any
have personal
experiences.
Make sure to ask
students who havnt
shared yet.
Show video.. Effects of
Stress (The Blue KC
Channel)

What are the students

doing?

Timing

Sit floor with health book and

pencil.
Listen.

5 mins

Write STRESS in the middle

of the page.
Discuss words they associate
with stress, things that may
cause it, things that happen
when stressed. Discuss as a
class your own thoughts and
experiences.

15 mins

5-10 mins
Watch video. Point out what
things stood out.
- Good & Bad stress Chronic Stress
- Physical body changes
Sit back at tables.
15-20 mins

Describe what a Ychart is, and how to

Draw a Y-chart in their book

with feels like, looks like,
and sounds like headings.

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How will you draw ideas together and

conclude the lesson?
How will you conclude the learning
experience/ learning findings?

Reflection and Self Evaluation:

What aspects of the lesson seemed to be

most valuable?
What aspects of the lesson could be
improved and how could they be improved?
What follow-up will be required from this
lesson?

draw one up in their

Eg: stress feels like shaking,
books.
looks like wrinkles, sounds
Discuss one example
like swearing.
of each section.
Conclusion
Tell students about the
Tidy up books etc for the
2 mins.
project at the
next class.
conclusion of the 3
weeks.
Some students were well aware of their own experiences of stress.
Others got confused between stress, anger and sadness. So I
discussed that stress is like a mix of many things, and that there are
physiological responses also.
Fight or Flight response was a good point that a student brought up.