DAY 3 - Overcoming Stress and Anxiety

DAY 3
Please sign the attendance sheet >>HERE

Today's Outcomes
I.    Students explain how stress affects our bodies
II.  Students share personal experiences with stress manifestations
III. Students compose a de-stressing strategy

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AGENDA
1. Warm-Up - Take the Brain Anatomy Quiz Game again.
2. Introductory Short Films & Reflections
3. Self-Assessment
4. Fight Flight Freeze Response
5. Art Activity - Pixilart.com
6. Art Therapy Activity
7. Self-Assessment Mini-Project
8. Closing

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1. WARM-UP
Take the Brain Anatomy Quiz Game three more times >>HERE
Snap screenshots of each resulting score, then upload the highest score to Mr. Webb >>HERE

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2. SHORT FILMS TO WATCH AND WRITE REFLECTIONS ON.
a. Short Film - BBC, Incredible animation on battling stress and anxiety

[BBC FILM REFLECTION]
-  List symptoms that the participants are saying they felt.
-  Describe how some of those emotions are illustrated in the animation

b. Short Film - Inner Workings
Inner Workings from jose chamba on Vimeo.
[INNER WORKINGS REFLECTION]
-  What is the main idea or basic story of what happens in this short film?  (Explain the plot)
-  If there is no dialogue or talking in the film, how are you able to understand the plot?


c. Short Film - Fight, Flight, Freeze - Anxiety Explained
[Fight, Flight, Freeze REFLECTION]
-  What is FIGHT?
-  What is FLIGHT?
-  What does it mean to FREEZE (as related to anxiety)?

c. Short Documentary Film - Art Therapy Can Reduce Stress and Anxiety

[ART THERAPY VIDEO REFLECTION]
-  What is Art Therapy?
-  How does Art Therapy help to reduce anxiety?

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3. Self-Assessment 
- What part of your brain causes stress (or anxiety) response and why?
- How do our bodies respond to anxiety?
- Is anxiety good or bad?

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4. Fight Flight Freeze Response
- Write in your journal about when you felt or observe fight, flight, and freeze responses in yourself and others during the coronavirus pandemic.
SHARE & DISCUSS

Read & Take Notes:
"Anxiety in Youth"
"Being Afraid"

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5. Art Activity - Using two online apps for digital art production
Drawing vector characters in Sketchpad https://sketch.io/sketchpad/.

How to use the app to draw 8bit art, otherwise known as pixel art.
https://www.pixilart.com/ (full scale illustrations) and https://www.piskelapp.com/ (animated sprites)

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6. Art Therapy Activity

TASK:
Draw a pixel art-illustration depicting what it looks like when you feel anxiety/fear.
Draw another pixel art illustration depicting what anger and frustration may look like for you.
Draw a third-pixel art illustration of what you look like normally when you are satisfied, contented, and happy ;-)

Add caption

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7. STRESS VISUALIZED Mini-Project
*Design characters based on the specific negative emotions listed below. Then, for each character, imagine that you are more powerful and can defeat the bad effects of the character like a superhero would.

Write a few sentences explaining how you might deal with the character to stop it from wreaking havoc in the lives of people.
- Anxiety
- Anger
- Confusion

- Shame/embarrassment
Draw your character in a pose that suggests their intentions, purpose, or behavior.

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8. Closing
- What songs help you de-stress?  What do each of these songs make you feel or think about?
TASK:  Create a playlist of 5-10 songs of your team's favorites to de-stress.
Find video links to each song on YouTube, to share with the class.

Art Activity - drawing pixel art with PIXILART.COM