FCS 462 Lesson Plan

Name: _Maleea Burden______

Date October 31, 2016

Lead Teacher/Mentor: Michelle Hansen

Organization: Family Resource and Youth Service Center Grade/Age Level: 5th Grade

Length of Lesson: 45 Minutes

Title of Lesson: Managing my own stress

1. Describe characteristics of students/learners who will require differentiated instruction to meet their diverse needs
impacting instructional planning in this lesson of the unit.
2. Identify Essential Questions
and/or Unit Objectives Addressed
in this Lesson:

Why is it important for stress

levels to be maintained?
What are ways that stress
can be managed?
How many ways are there to
cope with stress?

3. Connect to Appropriate
Standards:

4. Pre-Assessment of Prior
Knowledge:

13.1.6 Demonstrate stress

management strategies for family,
work, and community settings.
14.2.2 Analyze the relationship of
nutrition and wellness to individual
and family health throughout the
life span.
14.2.1 Analyze the effects of
nutrients on health, appearance, and
peak performance.

To activate prior knowledge I

will ask students what types
of stresses they currently
have in their life. I will then
ask them what happened to
their bodies when they are
stressed and what they do in
order to become less stressed.

5. Lesson Objectives/targets:
Include Blooms levels addressed
(cognitive, affective, and
psychomotor).

6. Assessment of Lesson Objectives:

In the space below, describe your
assessment procedures. Include copies of
all assessment tools after the lesson plan.

7. Instructional Strategies: In the

space below, describe what you, the
teacher, will do to ensure student
learning.

Objective # 1:
Students will be able to identify ways to
demonstrate stress management with
100% accuracy.

Assessment description:
For this assessment I will have students
cast their attention onto the website that
I have pulled up on the smartboard:
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Heal
thyLiving/StressManagement/StressManagement_UCM_001082_SubHomeP
age.jsp and as a class we will go

Strategy/Activity:
Class discussion on ways to
manage stress and ways to
manage stress.

through the website and come up

with ways to demonstrate stress

Media/Technology/Resources:
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthyLivin
g/StressManagement/StressManagement_UCM_001082_SubHomePage.jsp

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Objective # 2:
Students will be able perform different
types of stress management (yoga,
breathing) with 100% accuracy.

Assessment description:
I will have the class sit on the floor and
we will practice different stress
management techniques together.

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Strategy/Activity:
Practice different yoga
positions in the classroom.
Media/Technology/Resources:
Smart board with yoga techniques
on the board that the class and I
will practice together.

8. Teacher Procedures: Describe the sequence of strategies and activities you will use to engage students and accomplish your objectives. Within this sequence, describe how the
differentiated strategies will meet individual student needs and diverse learners in your plan. (Use this section to outline the who, what, when, and where of the instructional
strategies and activities.)

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I will open the class by asking the students what stresses they have in
their life
I will then pull up the website and go through it with the students.
I will initiate conversation about why being stressed isnt good for a
healthy lifestyle.
I will ask students to stand up and stretch.
I will then have students sit on the floor and we will practice breathing
and yoga.
We will then have a conversation about how much more relaxed that
made us feel.