This lesson plan aims to help students practice positive self-esteem through an activity using compliment jars. The plan outlines common core standards around self-esteem and healthy behaviors. Students will take turns writing compliments on strips of paper and placing them in each other's jars to boost self-esteem. At the end, students will read their compliment jars individually and write reflections on what they learned and how the activity impacted their self-view.
This lesson plan aims to help students practice positive self-esteem through an activity using compliment jars. The plan outlines common core standards around self-esteem and healthy behaviors. Students will take turns writing compliments on strips of paper and placing them in each other's jars to boost self-esteem. At the end, students will read their compliment jars individually and write reflections on what they learned and how the activity impacted their self-view.
This lesson plan aims to help students practice positive self-esteem through an activity using compliment jars. The plan outlines common core standards around self-esteem and healthy behaviors. Students will take turns writing compliments on strips of paper and placing them in each other's jars to boost self-esteem. At the end, students will read their compliment jars individually and write reflections on what they learned and how the activity impacted their self-view.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.3 Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks, attending to special cases or exceptions defined in the text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.5 Analyze the structure of the relationships among concepts in a text, including relationships among key terms. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.7 Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words.
Guam Department of Education Standards (Health Education):
HS 1.7 Compare and contrast the benefits of and barriers to practicing a variety of healthy behaviors. HS 2.3 Analyze how peers affect healthy and unhealthy behaviors. Objectives: Practice positive self-esteem Evaluate the worth of self-esteem, and understand low self-esteem and positive selfesteem Practice the evaluation of self-esteem in daily life Materials: Lesson:
Activity:
Laptop, Projector, Strips of Construction
Paper, Jars Our self-esteem affects the way we build relationships, our confidence, success, and ultimately, our happiness. Low self-esteem is associated with many physical, mental, and social consequences, and high self esteem is associated with self-acceptance, optimism, and happiness. There are many ways to boost your self-esteem. 1. Each student will be given a jar 2. Students will move clockwise around the room 3. Using a strip of construction paper, the student will write a compliment, or an encouraging sentence 4. The sentence written will be dropped in the jar
Lesson Plan: Compliment Jars
Conclusion: Homework/Exit ticket
5. The students will repeat steps 2-4 until
they have visited all of their classmates jars. The student will read their compliment jar individually. Write a paragraph-long summary of what you have learned, and another paragraph about your reflection on how this activity has changed your self-esteem