YOU BELONG HERE Violence Prevention Curriculum

Seventh & Eighth Grade

LESSON

Six

Significance and Building Resilience

60 min

This lesson is currently under review with Nest Educational Advisors. Please check back later for updates.

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.
Materials
Handouts
quicklinks

how to prepare for this lesson

At the start of class, teachers should have the following prepared:

  1. Teacher should have pairs predetermined to save time.
  2. Students should have journals out
  3. Resilience Habit Stations should be set up using the 7.6-1 Resilience Habit Stations document.
  4. Copies of the 7.6-2 Habit Tracker Handout for each student.

lesson clips

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.