Advertising and Marketing – MS.24 – Coping With Adversity (all, IA)
This LifeKnowledge middle school lesson (MS.24, “Coping with Adversity”) teaches students to define adversity, recognize commonly perceived adversities across four categories (social, occupational, physical, and personal), and develop a personal strategy for overcoming adversity. It uses an interactive Jell-O eating activity, famous-person examples, scenario cards, and a personal flow-chart strategy assignment to help students build foundational personal-growth skills.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Define adversity.
- List commonly perceived adversities.
- Develop a personal strategy for overcoming adversity.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes
- Grade level
- Middle School
- Materials
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- Overhead projector
- Scenario cards
- White paper
- Colored pencils, markers, or crayons
- Three bowls of cherry gelatin and three bowls of orange gelatin
- Six garbage bags and blindfolds
- Six plastic spoons
- MS.24.TM.A
- MS.24.TM.B
- MS.24.TM.C
- MS.24.TM.D
- MS.24.TM.E
- MS.24.Assess—one per student
- Unit
- Stage One of Development—ME
- Problem Area
- What Foundational Skills Do I Need for Personal Growth?
- Precepts
- K1: Cope with life's trials.
- Key Terms
- Adversity, Hope, Helpless, Social, Occupational, Physical, Personal
- Resources
- National FFA Organization's Essential Learnings, 2003. Stoltz, P.G. Adversity Quotient: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities, New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
Downloads & Links
Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NPH-H5-8.5Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.