January 4, 2016

Tuesday January 4, 2016

Circle: How does it feel to be back at school?

New Seating Chart: at your new table research the leading cause of death for children, men and women.  Be ready to report out.

Unit 8b Emotions:
Stress and Health Learning target: Students will be able to understand the different theories of emotion, define what stress is and how it can affect our health.  

Stress Survey: Get back in your groups and discuss what you learned from surveying students and staff.  What did you notice?  What was stressing them out? How much control did people feel like they had over their stress?  What is stress?  So how much control do people have over their stress as compared to early humans?  What are the implications for this?

Locus of Control Survey

Theories of Emotion: Using the three theories of emotion; James-Lange Theory, Cannon-Bard Theory and Schacter-Singer Theory attempt to explain how "beauty feels".

Video:
TEDtalk Art and emotion

Video:
TEDtalk Stress and the Brain

Video:
Stress and its implications

Homework: Continue to read and SQ3R Unit 8b.  Complete Type A or B personality Test and score.  Complete Optimism Questionnaire and score.