Lesson Plan
Matching Activity on Educaplay
Piglet Video
Rabbit Video
Reading Group 1
Reading Group 2
Reading Group 3
Rorschach Test
Skribbl website
Tiger Video
What's Up (Mental Health)
Winnie the Pooh video
Lesson Plan Interactive Mental Health
Overview
In this lesson plan, you will find an extensive cover of the topic Mental Health aimed especially to students in the level of High School. To be more specific, it is focused on 10th grade. Moreover, we are really interested in promoting awareness about the importance of Mental disorders, which are more common among young population currently.
Lesson Plan Form
Teachers names:
- Juan David Rojas
- Alexander Artunduaga
- Juan Diego Alvarez
- María José Ospina
- Juan Steban Salas
- Brayan Steven Alvarez
Class / Grade: 10th Grade
School / Institution: Public High School
Time & length of the class: 2 hours
Number of Students: 20 Students
Achievement: Students will be able to acknowledge mental health states and their effects.
Lesson objectives:
- Promote awareness about mental health diseases.
- Know more vocabulary related to mental health.
By the end of the class, students will be able to:
Acknowledge the causes and effects of mental illnesses. Additionally, they will be able to identify if there are classmates who are suffering from mental issues and how to react to and treat these situations.
National Standard:
BLR (Basic Learning Rights)
ICT (Information & Communication Technologies)
1 .To promote comprehensive education and learning of English by boys, girls and adolescentswith whom he shares the classroom and thus promotes intercultural education processes and recognition of differences.
2. A teacher must be capable of choosing the didactic sequences that best adjust to the needs of his students to mediate their learning.
3. Taking the theory to the classroom, so the teacher may increase the curiosity, the desire to learn, the capacity to ask and investigate.
Resources and materials:
- (App) What’s up a mental health app available on Android
- YouTube Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B-wTp2PZH8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F16fO8p6Wew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHTpVTnHdIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpZS0an0o_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytsCnISiCGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz-MbAJ1GPo
- Reading material
https://www.beyondblue.org.au/who-does-it-affect/personal-stories/story/katrina
https://www.beyondblue.org.au/who-does-it-affect/personal-stories/story/bianca---beyond-blue
https://www.beyondblue.org.au/who-does-it-affect/personal-stories/story/bob
- Social forums
- Rorschach pictures
- Srkibbl Website: https://skribbl.io
Skill focus:
Speaking, reading, and listening.
Language Focus:
- Use of English: Common adjectives and vocabulary of the Mental Health field. In addition, some expressions from some clips that will be shown in class.
- Vocabulary: Mental Health diseases - Symptons - Rorschach - Insights - Tendencies.
- Grammar: Modal verbs
Foreseeable Problems:
- Students could be confused about these sorts of topics which are not spoken in the great majority of classes.
- Students could get bored and lose interest in what they are seeing in class.
- Students could not be used to speak or take a whole class in English.
- Some students may feel uncomfortable talking about this topic.
- There may be internet connection issues or blackouts.
Planned Solutions:
- Record the class for both students who cannot attend and those who want to rehearse what they learned during the session.
- Explain to the students the importance and necessity of talking openly about this topic as anybody can suffer from mental issues.
- Organize as many dynamic activities as possible in order to create an interesting and entertaining educational environment.
- Gesticulate and speak in both languages (English and Spanish) to make students understand more deeply the topic and the information provided.
- Create alternatives for those students who lack the necessary tools to engage in virtual environments (technological devices, internet connection)
PRE ACTIVITY
Length: 20 Minutes
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WHILE ACTIVITY
Length: 1 hour
- Presentation of the application "What's up: a mental health app". Afterwards, an activity will be carried out with the same.
- Presentation video: 10 mental illness signs you should not ignore.
- Activity video clips Winnie pooh & his friends: An activity in which students will go back to the groups and will watch some video clips from Winnie Pooh. They are supposed to watch those videos and try to guess in each clip which state of mind is hidden.
- Matching activity: Matching words with their right definitions through an interactive game on Educaplay
- How did the pandemic influence our mental health? (strategies used): Pandemic has also played a huge role. If we talk about mental health, we had never been exposed to such escenario. Students will discuss how the pandemic influenced our mental health and which strategies were used to face it.
POST ACTIVITY
Length: 30 Minutes
- Reading Activity: At last, students will be placed in groups and later in those groups a piece of reading will be given to them; they will read and next they will discuss it answering:
Do you feel identified with the text?
How would you have acted if you were in the same situation?
What advice would you give to the person in the story?
- Reflective Activity: Students share insights, opinions or comments about what they have learned or wanted to talk about mental issues.