Colleen Mistler

Westfield High School Health Lesson

Lesson Duration: 49 minutes
Lesson 6/11
March 27, 2017
Grade Level: 9.10

Materials:
Ipad/computer
Whiteboard and markers
Large white paper
markers
Glencoe Health Textbook

Objectives: should be posted in the classroom for the students to reference, as well as
an agenda
by the end of the lesson, students will be able to :
Describe how stress affects the body both physically and mentally
Use technology to research additional information about stress and how it
impacts the human body
Complete a realistic human body poster with 10 examples of what chronic
stress does to the body over time

Standards:
MACF 1.12 Describe the growth patterns and body changes within human beings
throughout the life cycle (from prenatal through late adulthood), including critical periods
in growth and development
MACF 5.11 Analyze healthy ways to express emotions and to cope with feelings,
including the common causes of stress, its effects on the body, and managing stress
MACF 5.13 Analyze research on health behaviors and brain chemistry and emotional
functioning
MACF 5.19 Explain positive techniques for handling difficult decisions
MACF 6.11 Identify steps for getting support or help, including identifying resources for
families whose members have special health needs

Activity 1: Question of the Day

The students will enter the classroom and sit in their assigned seat. The question of the
day will be on the board and the students will immediately answer it in their notebook.
Introduction: Review methods for managing stress. Discuss how stress can affect all
parts of a persons life, including their social, mental, and physical health. Tell the
students of their expectations: the posters should be finished at the end of the lesson
today.
Ask the students...
What did you learn last week about how stress affects the body that
surprised you?
Did you do any research over the weekend to help you with your posters
today?

Activity 2: Body Map

The students may use a variety of textbooks, cell phones, and the computer lab if it can
be reserved to research effects of stress on the body. Students will work in pairs to use
large canvas paper to trace their body. Students will draw the reactions on the body
from stress. *Provide example for students to reference

Activity 3: Art Show

The students will hang up their posters and walk around the room reviewing each
others poster. The students will bring their notebooks, and write information they
learned from other students posters that they did not have on their posters.

Ticket to leave: Students will fill out an answer to the question on the ticket to leave,
and hand to the teacher before exiting the room
Todays questions is: What did you learn from another persons poster today?