Lesson Plan

2 x 40 minute lessons

Day: M T W T F Date: ____17th October 2017___ Time: ___2:15-3:00____ Year: __6__

Learning Area: _____Health____ Topic: ____Resilience____

Curriculum content description: (from ACARA)

Investigate the role of preventive health in promoting and maintaining health, safety and wellbeing for individuals
and their communities (ACPPS058)
Discussing the importance of social support and a sense of belonging in promoting mental health and
wellbeing
Investigating practices that help promote and maintain health and wellbeing

Learning objectives: Evaluation:

Define resilience Students notes will be collected to ensure they

Have strategies to promote resilience
Have mindfulness techniques
Express emotion more articulately
have obtained the knowledge
Classroom discussions will be initiated
continuously throughout the duration of the two
lessons to ensure students have gained
understandings and can express their
opinions/thoughts
Actively participate in resilience building activities
as a productive member

Preparation and Resources:

1. Prepared PowerPoint on Resilience (5-10 minutes) - APPENDIX A

2. 5 Steps to Resilience YouTube (2mins 18secs) - discuss the 5 steps of resilience afterwards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FDyiUEn8Vw
3. Mindfulness Meditation for students (4mins 54secs) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
kt0sSascN0&list=PLKe28LyY8WZtfVkhW2LfeCh41Fn53nrhZ&index=3
4. Apples (pink ladys) for Resilience Activity
5. Coloured Paper to make Chatterboxes (building resilience- saying nice things, encouraging to keep
trying/pushing forward) APPENDIX B
6. Chatterbox guideline & Steps to folding a chatterbox

Learning Experiences:

1. Using the PowerPoint define resilience

2. Continue through the PowerPoint, stopping to discuss as students have questions or queries arise
3. Play the 5 Steps to Resilience YouTube video, afterwards discuss the steps with students, initiate a
discussion about strategies they may use and whether they feel they are achieving the 5 steps (i.e. do
they use meditation?? Use this to lead on to the next video)
4. Begin the 5-minute Mindfulness Meditation session (YouTube video)
5. Apple Activity with students (lesson 1 if time, if not, lesson 2) two apples (pink ladys) will be passed
around to students who are seated in a circle, students will be asked to treat & talk to one apple nicely.
The other apple, students will say a put-down and bump or knock the apple. Once both apples have
circled the group they will be cut in half to show that even though the apples may look fine or the same
 on the outside and people may put on a brave face, they arent the same on the inside, they are damaged
and bruised, which also relates to people elaborate the connection if necessary.
6. Resilience Chatterbox Activity (lesson 2) - students will create chatterboxes, inside the chatterboxes
students will write the steps to resilience that they noted down in the previous lesson, they will be given
5-10 minutes at the end of the lesson to use the chatterboxes with their peers.
 APPENDIX A -

https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive?ths=true

APPENDIX B