Mental health and stress management
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can master ways to deal with stress such as self-care routines and mindfulness.
Key learning points
- Move: visualisation, deep breathing and positive self-talk help us to push through challenging exercises.
- Think: stress affects the body by increasing muscle tension and heart rate, reducing the effect of training.
- Feel: mindfulness can help you feel more focused, calm and in tune with your surroundings.
- Connect: using positive self-talk to motivate your peers is powerful and helps create a culture of support and effort.
Keywords
Stress - feeling overwhelmed or worried
Self-care - taking care of yourself to stay healthy
Mindfulness - being aware of the present moment
Common misconception
Some pupils may struggle to believe the impact your mindset can have on performance.
Your mindset can be the difference between giving up and persisting, through the use of mindfulness, visualisation and positive self talk anything is possible.
Teacher tip
If you don't have confidence or experience in delivering this kind of content, use the additional materials to guide you.
Equipment
additional materials, floor matts, music box, white boards and pens
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Who would find flexibility training most useful?
Q2.Which is a benefit of flexibility training?
Q3.What should we use to guide our movement and increase the depth of our stretches?
Q4.What should we try to sense in our body to identify where stretching is really needed?
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What positive techniques can we use to help push us through challenging exercises?
Q2.How does stress affect the body?
Q3.What can we use to feel more focused, calm and in tune with our surroundings?
Q4.Using self-talk can be a powerful way to motivate our peers but what must it be?
To help you plan your 10 physical education lesson on: Mental health and stress management, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 10 physical education lesson on: Mental health and stress management, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom.
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