7th Gr - Lesson 4: Managing Emotions

Students will be able to… 

1. Understand the importance of managing emotions and how it affects one’s overall health.
2. Explain the resources that they can go to, to help them manage their emotions.

LESSON PREPARATION TEACHING OUTLINE:

Lesson 3: Expressing Emotions

1. Begin with the first slide and discussion questions for the class. Turn and talk. 
2. Open up the feelings tracker and ask your students to identify how they are feeling (if they feel more comfortable writing it down on a post-it and not sharing, that is fine too). You can use the Snowball Activity.
3. Video #1 - The Importance of Recognizing Our Emotions - personal reflection.
4. Slide #4 - Define anger and anxiety and explain why it is important to have these feelings as much as it is to have positive feelings too. 
5. Discuss the importance of managing your emotions and how it can affect one’s overall health. 
6. On slide #6 - go through the steps and then have students explore the HealthHub and complete the worksheet. THIS IS THE ACTIVITY FOR THIS LESSON.