Second Grade Curriculum Resources
Standard of Learning
2.3 The student will describe the influences and factors that impact health and wellness. Key concepts/skills include:
- heredity;
- the environment;
- germs and diseases;
- different customs and traditions;
- self-image related to personal success;
- disappointment, loss, grief, and separation.
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.
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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.
Sample Lessons
"All Kinds of Feelings"
Grade(s) PreK-2
This activity provides and opportunity to assist children to creatively explore feelings through reflection, discussion, art and dance. The activities help children to understand how they can promote positive feelings in one another by practicing acts of kindness in their daily lives.
http://www.familiesandwork.org/911ah/lp_prek-2_adl.html
Free
"Coping with Loss"
Grade(s) K-4
To help students think about their feelings of loss one year later. To develop coping skills a year after Sept. 11th, 2001. (Modify from one year to the amount of time that has currently passed)
http://www.csee.net/LessonPlans.asp?id=13
Free
Additional Instructional Resources
- Emotional Development – http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/ (health & fitness k-2)
- Teaching Children About Health, A Multidisciplinary Approach - http://www.morton-pub.com - "Children's Experience with Loss, Dying, and Death"
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.
