MS.24 Coping With Adversity
This is a Middle School National FFA Organization LifeKnowledge lesson (MS.24, “Coping with Adversity”) that teaches students how to recognize and respond to life’s struggles. Through an interactive Jell-O eating activity, note-taking, scenario cards, and a personal strategy assignment, students learn to define adversity, identify common categories of adversity (social, occupational, physical, personal), and develop their own strategies for overcoming hardship.
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.
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Lesson plan
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NPH-H5-8.5Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.