Achieving Good Mental Health, Glencoe-Health

Chapter 7, Pages 168 – 195

Lesson One, Pages 170 – 177

Lesson Plan: 9th Grade Health, Week of Monday, November 14th, 2005

Time Allotment: 2 hours 15 minutes

TEKS: 2A – Analyze the relationship between mental health promotion and disease prevention

7E – Analyze and apply strategies for avoiding violence, gangs, weapons and drugs

7H – Analyze the importance and benefits of abstinence as it relates to emotional health and the prevention of pregnancy and sexually-transmitted diseases

13A – Demonstrate communication skills in building and maintaining healthy relationships

14A – Demonstrate strategies for communication needs, wants, and emotions

15B – Demonstrate empathy towards others

Materials Needed (Physical): Houston Chronicle, Overhead, CD player,

PowerPoint Projector

Materials Needed (Inside the Brain): The Will to Learn

Key Terms: Mental/emotional health Self-Actualization Modeling

Hierarchy of needs Personality

READ, READ, READ

Do Now: Read “Quick Start” on page 170 and do it

End Product/Homework: You will possess…

  1. A list of characteristics that describe a person with good mental health.
  2. A characteristic you would like to develop more fully.
  3. Some ways to accomplish the task of developing the characteristic you would like to develop more fully.

Objectives: You will:

  1. Learn the characteristics of good mental and emotional health.
  2. Explain the importance of meeting needs in healthful ways.
  3. Analyze the importance and benefits of abstinence as it relates to emotional health.
  4. Analyze the relationship between mental health promotion and disease prevention.

5 Lesson Steps to Success:

A. Review Do Now:

  1. Go over the list of characteristics that describe a person with good mental health.
  2. Share a characteristic you would like to develop more fully.
  3. What are some ways to accomplish the task of developing the characteristic you would like to develop more fully?

B. Go Over End Product:

  1. You have begun a list of characteristics that describe a person with good mental health.
  2. You have shared a characteristic you would like to develop more fully.
  3. You have shared some ways to accomplish the task of developing the characteristic you would like to develop more fully.

C. Teaching: I will work with you to…

  1. Learn the characteristics of good mental and emotional health.
  2. Explain the importance of meeting needs in healthful ways.
  3. Analyze the importance and benefits of abstinence as it relates to emotional health.
  4. Analyze the relationship between mental health promotion and disease prevention.

D. Skill Practice: You will…

  1. Participate in the discussion
  2. Fill in your foldable organizer
  3. Take notes as the class progresses

E. Summary/Review: You will show you know the objectives by…

  1. Actively participating in the discussion
  2. Showing me your completed foldable organizer
  3. Putting the lesson into practice here at PACE and in other areas of your life.

Define:

Mental/emotional health -

Hierarchy of needs -

Self-actualization -

Personality -

Modeling -

List 5 characteristics of good mental/emotional health and explain them:

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List the 5 “need levels” in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Pyramid with their small definition:

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Additional Notes for the class: