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Students will examine what worrying is—the causes,
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Primary Learning Outcomes
What does it mean to worry? What causes me to worry? How can I
deal with worry?
Additional Learning Outcomes
Assessed QCC Standards:
Grade: 3
Guidance
A. Self Knowledge
3
Topic: Awareness
of the importance of growth and change.
Standard:
Identify personal feelings. Identify ways to express
feelings. Identify causes of stress. Identify and select appropriate behavior to
deal with specific emotional situations. Demonstrate healthy ways of dealing
with conflicts, stress, and emotions in self and others. Demonstrate knowledge
of good health habits.
Procedures/Activities
Step:
1 Duration: 5 min.
Lead the class in a discussion of what it is to worry about
something. Ask what worries them and write their ideas on the board.
Step: 2 Duration: 5 min.
Discuss “How do you feel when you are worried? What feelings
do you have?”
Step: 3 Duration: 5
min.
Discuss what can be done to relieve feelings caused by
worrying.
Step: 4 Duration: 20
min.
Distribute materials (or have them located on a work table)
and have each student create a Worry Critter.
Materials and Equipment
Small rocks, walnut shells, small cups, or pine cones, Movable
eyes, Construction paper, fabric, felt, Feathers and glue
Standards (Local and/or National)
Total Duration
45 min.
Technology Connection
Assessment
Students participation in making a worry critter will be
evaluated.
Extension
Invite a health professional to come in and explain the
effects that worry can sometimes have on mental and physical health.
Remediation
Ask students to take their worry creature home with them and
keep a worry journal in which they record everything that worries them for a
week. Discuss ways of handling that worry.
Accommodation
Modification
For students with significant disabilities, what changes can
be made in instruction and teaching delivery to allow students to participate in
classroom instruction while working on IEP objectives and off grade level QCC
standards. Below are suggested modifications correlated to the procedures of
this lesson plan.
