Health · Week 1 · Mental, Emotional, and Social Health
The Weather Inside
Students use a weather report metaphor to sort an imagined student's stressors into home, school, and peer categories and name the feelings each one might bring.
- Students will
- Students classify stressors into home, school, and peer categories and describe how a social environment can affect health and well-being.
- SEL skill
- Name feelings that come with different stressors
- What it looks like
- Students recognize and name the emotions that can come with different stressors and notice how feelings show up in the body.
- Content focus
- Classifying stressors and naming the feelings they bring
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means noticing your own emotions, thoughts, values, and strengths and seeing how they shape what you do. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 1.9.M: Mental, Emotional, and Social Health, Standard 1 (Essential Health Concepts), item 1.9.M
- 1.5.M: Mental, Emotional, and Social Health, Standard 1 (Essential Health Concepts), item 1.5.M
- Student page: Health journal page
- CA Health overarching standard: Standard 1: Essential Health Concepts
More self-awareness activities for Health
- Why I Reach for That Snack Self-awarenessStudents sort the internal and external influences behind an imagined teen's food choices across a day and notice how mood, hunger, and surroundings shape eating.
- Safe Moves Playbook Self-awarenessStudents notice the feelings that can lead to risky choices in sports, social events, and cars, then build a playbook of injury prevention moves for each setting.
RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.