Lesson summary
This lesson explores the impact that mental illness can have on a person’s overall health and wellbeing, and the coping strategies that can be used to support a person. Students look at the risk and protective factors that can contribute to a person developing a mental illness, and the relationship between these factors, mental health and wellbeing, and drug and alcohol use. They will watch two stories from Life After The Oasis as an example of some of the personal and social factors that may contribute to a person using drugs and alcohol. Students then look at a range of strategies they can use to support themselves in challenging times.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- explore the personal and social factors that contribute to health, in particular, mental health and wellbeing
- explore various strategies that can be used to manage stress, to support their own and others' health and wellbeing
Success criteria:
Students can...
- identify some of the personal and social factors that may have an impact on the health and wellbeing of people
- identify their preferred coping strategies that can be used to help them manage stress and support their health and wellbeing
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Lesson details
Curriculum mapping
Australian curriculum content descriptions:
Health and Physical Education Year 9 and 10:
- Critically analyse and apply health information from a range of sources to health decisions and situations (ACPPS095)
- Evaluate factors that shape identities and critically analyse how individuals impact the identities of others (ACPPS089)
Syllabus outcomes: PDHPE5.1, PDHPE5.6, PDHPE5.7, PDHPE5.8.
General capabilities: Literacy, Ethical Understanding, Personal and social capability
Relevant parts of Year 9 & 10 achievement standards: Students critically analyse contextual factors that influence identities, relationships, decisions, and behaviours. Students access, synthesise and apply health information from credible sources to propose and justify responses to health situations.
Unit of work: Life After The Oasis – HPE
Time required: 80 mins
Level of teacher scaffolding: Low – facilitate class discussion and swap card activity
Resources required
- Student Worksheets – one copy per student
- Device capable of presenting a video to the class
- Handling Sensitive Topics And Controversial Issues Factsheet – teacher copy (Optional)
- A3 Placemat Thinking Template – one per group
- Risk And Protective Factors Worksheet – one per student
- Coping Strategy Cards – one per group
- Agree/Disagree Posters – one copy
Skills
This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Critical thinking
- Empathy
- Social skills
Additional info
This resource has been adapted from ‘Teaching Social Issues Through English’ developed with the English Teachers Association NSW and the ‘Youth Homelessness Matters Resource’ developed by Janice Atkin. You can find these resources here.
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