Grade 11 Healthy Active Living Education Additional Supports ...

Positive Mental Health and Stress
Public Profile
Unit #3 Activity #4
Teaching Learning Strategy #4
Teacher Resource (Background Information)
Catholic Profile
Unit #5 Activity #2. #6
Teaching Learning Strategy #3, #5
Instructions:
1. Provide an introductory exercise by starting with Student Resource- (Worksheet)
ÒGuess These Simple PhobiasÓ. Have students complete the worksheet individually
and then partner up with one other person to compare their thoughts. Take up the
correct answers with the class.
Consider the following discussion questions to broaden studentsÕ perspective on
phobias.
• How might any one of these phobias affect a personÕs daily life?
• What impacts might one of these phobias have on a personÕs physical and/or
emotional well-being?
Ensure students understand that similar to the long list of phobias, mental health
disorders are also many in number and come in varying degrees of severity. Most of
us at some point in our lives will experience a mental health disorder either personally
or with a family member or a friend.
2. As an additional (or alternative) introductory exercise, use Student Resource
(Worksheet) ÒMyth or FactÓ. Have students complete the worksheet individually and
then partner up with one other person to compare their thoughts. Take up the correct
answers with the class.
Consider the following discussion questions to broaden studentsÕ perspective on
phobias
• Did any of the facts/answers surprise you?
• Imagine someone in your family has a mental disorderÉ.How might this affect
your life?
Ensure students understand that just like the rest of us, people with mental illness live
ordinary lives, they have families, jobs, bills to pay, talents, successes and
accomplishments as well as challenges and so on. Use the Teacher Resource
(Overhead) Famous People to emphasize the point. Ask the class: ÒWhat do the
people on this list have in common?Ó Answer: ÒThis is a list of famous people who
have experienced mental illness. Each person has a diagnosis or believed diagnosis of
a mood disorder.Ó Briefly discuss the accomplishments of each and in summary,
communicate clearly to students that mental illness was not a barrier to
accomplishment and success.
3. Divide the students into several groups and assign each group one of the mental
disorders listed below. Each group will research the disorder using the Student
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