Standard of Learning

2.3   The student will describe the influences and factors that impact health and wellness. Key concepts/skills include:

1. heredity;
2. the environment;
3. germs and diseases;
4. different customs and traditions;
5. self-image related to personal success;
6. disappointment, loss, grief, and separation.

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Understanding the Standard

The student will understand how the stress of disappointment, loss, grief, and separation impacts health.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

The student will:

• define disappointment, loss, grief, and separation.
• identify helpful ways to deal with disappointment, loss, grief, and separation.
• list harmful ways of dealing with disappointment, loss, grief, and separation.
• identify the different stages of grief or feelings of loss:
  • shock and fear;
  • emotional release;
  • panic;
  • guilt;
  • hostility/anger;
  • sorrow;
  • inability or resume normal activities; and
  • acceptance.

Additional Instructional Resources

• Emotional Development – http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/ (health & fitness k-2)

Assessment Ideas

The student will:

• role-play harmful and then helpful reactions to disappointment, loss, grief, and separation.
• identify three stages of grief or feelings of loss.

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