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Seventh & Eighth Grade
LESSON
Six
Significance and Building Resilience
60 min
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In this lesson, students explore the concept of significance—the feeling of being valuable and important—and how it is connected to resilience, the ability to recover from challenges. Through classroom discussion and activities, students learn that resilience can be built through habits. Students explore six resilience-building habits, choosing one to practice from each station to incorporate into their daily lives.
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how to prepare for this lesson
At the start of class, teachers should have the following prepared:
- Teacher should have pairs predetermined to save time.
- Students should have journals out
- Resilience Habit Stations should be set up using the 7.6-1 Resilience Habit Stations document.
- Copies of the 7.6-2 Habit Tracker Handout for each student.
Additional Resources
Sources
- Kruglanski, A. W., & Bélanger, J. J. (2022). "Significance-quest theory and its implications for radicalization." Current Opinion in Psychology.
- Masten, A. S. (2011). "Resilience in Development: A Synthesis of Research across Five Decades." Developmental Psychology.
- American Psychological Association (APA). (2011). Resilience Guide for Parents and Teachers.