In this lesson, students model objects in the solar system and draw conclusions about whether Pluto will be considered a planet.
Mental Health Mental Health Through Literature examines how mental illness had been portrayed in the arts while highlighting for students a more insightful way to further develop their ideas about human behavior. In elementary school, students should learn that all people experience a variety of emotions, yet they often deal with their feelings or personal problems differently. I’m sure you heard about this. That human beings often remain confused about why others act the way they do, students also learn that talking to someone about their feelings and problems can help them. Students at this level should understand that people differ in how they cope with stressful situations whether internal or external and that they often cope by denying there islook, there’s a huge poser in the first instance. Although, by the time students enter high school, they probably would like to have a clearer understanding of why people behave as they do. Dealing with unexplainable feelings and behavior can often be even more puzzling, while the world itself can be extremely confusing and stressful. Nevertheless, that is why it is important at this stage of their development to expose them to the general truths about social and psychological processes. Remember, regarding health, it is worth pointing out that students of all ages tend to focus on health physical aspects and pay less attention to the mental and social aspects. You should take this seriously. The lessons in this series are intended to help students develop their ideas about understanding importance mental health. Students at this level should come to realize that good mental health involves psychological interaction, biological, physiological, social, and cultural systems. Generally, good mental health generally is regarded as the ability to cope with the ordinary circumstances people encounter in their personal, professional, and social lives. Ideas about what constitutes good mental health vary from one culture to another and from one time period to another. Students going to be able to grasp the concept that what they may consider to be insane behavior could very well be viewed as simple eccentricity or divine inspiration by other people, for the sake of example, in Middle Eastern cultures. Whereas one culture may prescribe therapy or drug remedies, other, more traditional cultures may promote prayer or social involvement to alleviate the person ills, Similarly, differences in the ways cultures treat abnormal mental states can also differ widely.
Have students explore the following online resources.
These resources provide a more in depth look and Bedlam analysis experience as well as how issues and problems related to mental health were handled and regarded in England before the 19th century. Next, using the Bedlam esheet, have students explore Bedlam. Madness. This resource provides students with a general famed overview, historic mental institution. Among other things, students will learn that Bedlam used to attract visitors not for humanitarian interests but for its insane human spectacle. By clicking on the link, students will learn about and see a visual four representation humours, the rough, classically influenced theory by which Europeans explained human physical, mental, and personality characteristics before the 20th century. This resource also briefly examines madness from a literary standpoint. You should take it into account. Encourage students to click on the active links for a more in depth understanding of Bedlam and its influence on English culture. There’s some more information about it on this site. Ask general comprehension review questions like the ones below, when they are finished. Anyways, ask students.
Refer students to the Understanding What You’ve Learned esheet section. They might be directed to read Henry Mackenzie, Feeling Man, Chapter XX next, another account of one man’s visit to the notorious Bedlam. Direct them to pay particular attention to the young woman who captures Henry attention Mackenzie. Eventually, the esheet will direct students to answer the questions. Students can use their Bedlam student sheet as reference for the questions. You can use these to conduct a culminating ideas discussion in this lesson or you can collect and grade them. I’m sure it sounds familiar. |Doesn’t it sound familiar, is that the case?|Sounds familiar, is that the case?|right, right? suggested answers to these questions are found in the Bedlam teacher sheet. Lead this activity into a broader discussion of mental health and human behavior past and present as shown below, as noted. Also, according to your time availability, the following assignment can be done in class and/orand as a homework assignment in an essay form. Ask students to discuss the ideas in the benchmarks, especially specific contrasts between views of mental illness and institutions like Bedlam in the 18th century and their parallels today.
This lesson is three second lessons on mental health and human behavior.
Mental Health Human Behavior provides students with a sound introduction and historical important overview figures and discoveries that have greatly advanced human study behavior since the early 1900s. Mental Health Bedlam gives students a ‘upclose’, personal look at Bedlam, the world’s first mental health asylum, and life kind and treatment that mentally ill people received before the 20th century. This lesson is three second lessons on mental health and human behavior. Mental Health Human Behavior provides students with a sound introduction and historical important overview figures and discoveries that have greatly advanced human study behavior since the early 1900s. Mental Health Bedlam gives students a ‘upclose’, personal look at Bedlam, the world’s first mental health asylum, and life kind and treatment that mentally ill people received before the 20th century.