AAHPERD National Conference - 2014
Practicing Healthy Behaviors – Grade 9
Lesson 2
Lesson 1 – Data analysis, types of stress, effects of stress on the body, practicing healthy behaviors-aerobic exercise and
meditation
Lesson 2 – Practicing healthy behaviors – Stress management strategies
Lesson 3 – Performance (Student demonstrates the healthy behaviors of stress management strategies)
Step 1: Infusing Standard 1, Design the assessment
Standard 1 Infused Performance Indicator
1.12.5 Propose ways to reduce or prevent injuries and health problems.
Assessment: 1.12.5 Propose ways to reduce or prevent injuries and health problems related to stress. (Joint
Committee on National
Health Education Standards, 2007)
Step 2: Infusing the skills standard, Design the assessment
Standard Skills Infused Performance Indicator (Standards 2-8)
7.12.2 Demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors that maintain or improve the health of self and others.
(Joint Committee on National Health Education Standards, 2007)
Assessment: 7.12.2 Demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors such as stress management
strategies that maintain or
improve the health of self and others.
AAHPERD S3.H14.L1 Identifies stress management strategies such as mental imaging, relaxation techniques, deep
breathing, aerobic exercise, meditation) to reduce stress.
Assessment: Identify 2 stress management strategies such as mental imaging, relaxation techniques, deep
breathing, aerobic
exercise, meditation) to reduce stress.
Step 3: Procedure
Reflective question
Enduring understanding
Which stress management
Learning how to practice healthy behaviors empowers 9th graders to improve their
strategies work to enhance my health.
personal health?
Bell to Bell:
 Review the class agenda
 Let’s review what we learned in lesson one (1.12.5 Propose ways to reduce or prevent injuries and health
problems related to stress)
o Mental imaging
o Relaxation techniques
o Deep breathing
o Aerobic exercises
o Mediation (American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 2013)
 Model practicing healthy behaviors, stress management – Mental Imaging – Visualize success
o This is a great thing to do when you feel stressed about something that's coming up like a big test,
sports game, or performance:
o Find a comfortable place to sit.
o Close your eyes and picture things going well.
o Visualize yourself feeling prepared and in control as you sit down for your test, or kicking the
winning goal in soccer, or landing the lead role at your drama audition. (The Nemours
Foundation, 2014)
 Model practicing healthy behaviors, stress management – Breathing
o Close your eyes and focus on your breathing.
o As you inhale, think about your lungs inflating, your ribs expanding, and the breath moving through
your nasal passages.
Mary Connolly, Health education consultant. connolly_mary@hotmail.com
Program Chair, Health and Family & Consumer Sciences, Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA
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As you exhale, think about your lungs deflating and the breath rushing out of your nasal passages.
If your mind starts to wander, calmly say to yourself "thinking" and then turn your attention back to
your breath.
Today we are going to learn how to practice the healthy behavior of using stress management strategies to
improve our health. (Joint Committee on National Health Education Standards, 2007)
o Let’s read about Elisa and figure out how to help her use stress management to reduce her stress.
Distribute the stress management worksheet, Part 1
o Now let’s think about all the stress management strategies you have learned over the past two classes
and determine which strategy works for you. (Part 2 of the worksheet)
o As the students complete the worksheet, formatively assess (coach) by walking around the
classroom. If students use their red or yellow circle, help them. Students using the green circle
can be checked for progress.
o Students demonstrate a stress reduction strategy and how it improves personal health. (CCSS)
Next class, you will select a stress management strategy from a hat and demonstrate how to use it.
Review (Formative assessment)
o Propose ways to reduce or prevent injuries and health problems related to stress
o Explan how each of the following reduces stress
 Mental imaging
 Relaxation techniques
 Deep breathing
 Aerobic exercises
 Mediation (American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 2013)
Step 4: Reflection
Once the lesson has been taught, write down any suggestions that may improve the lesson.
Step 5: Additional Considerations
Materials
 Practicing healthy
behaviors worksheet
 Red, yellow, and
green circles
Strategies for special considerations
 SPED – Review the worksheet with the students. Pair the SPED student with
another student to facilitate the completion of the worksheet.
 ELL
o Review the worksheet with the students. Pair the ELL student with
another student to facilitate the completion of the worksheet.
o Place the decision making worksheet on the wall in the appropriate
language of the ELLs.
 Technology – None for this lesson
 Students from diverse backgrounds – Review lesson one to refresh the meaning
of practicing healthy behaviors.
Link to Interdisciplinary Connections
Common Core
English Language Arts
Speaking
Listening
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.4 Present information, findings, and
supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can
follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance,
and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.
Bibliography
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. (2013). Grade Level Outcomes for K-12
Physical Education. Reston, VA: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
Retrieved from http://www.aahperd.org/whatwedo/upload/StandardsChart.pdf
Joint Committee on National Health Education Standards. (2007). National Health Education Standards. Atlanta:
American Cancer Society.
The Nemours Foundation. (2014, February 18). Yoga Meditation and Breathing. Retrieved from Teens Health from
Nemours: http://kidshealth.org/teen/stress_coping_center/stress_management/meditation.html#cat20865
Mary Connolly, Health education consultant. connolly_mary@hotmail.com
Program Chair, Health and Family & Consumer Sciences, Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA
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