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Part 3Lesson Plans and PowerPoint Slides

Weaving Well-Being © 2017 www.otb.ie/WWB

Lesson 1: What are Empowering Beliefs?

SPHE Strand: Myself

Strand Units: Self-identity (Self-awareness) / Growing and changing (Feelings and emotions) / Making decisions

The child should be enabled to:

• refl ect on his/her experiences and the reasons for taking diff erent courses of action

• identify and learn about healthy ways to help him/her feel positive about himself/herself

• explore and learn to examine critically the factors and levels of thought that infl uence decisions and choices

Objectives1. To review the defi nition of well-being.

2. To introduce the children to the concept of empowering beliefs.

3. To help the children to understand the link between empowering beliefs and well-being.

4. To help the children to identify the features of empowering beliefs.

5. To help the children to understand the link between beliefs, thoughts, feelings and actions.

6. To help the children to consider the ways in which empowering beliefs are like batteries.

Development• Show and discuss the PowerPoint slides.

• Discuss and complete one or both of the activities in the children’s Pupil Book.

• Set and discuss the homework page.

Cross-curricular links / Supplementary Activities

• Weaving Well-Being Rap: Supplementary Worksheet - SW11A (page 85) – this song is taught to children as part of the Second Class programme and can be revised at all subsequent levels of the programme. The audio track is available on the Outside the Box Learning Resources Ltd. website at www.otb.ie/WWB

• Visual Art: Posters on the power of beliefs – photocopy the quotes about belief on Supplementary Worksheet - SW1 (page 74). Allow the children to design posters based on these quotes or to make up their own quotes.

• Literacy: Explore and discuss how the beliefs, hidden or otherwise of characters from literature and class novels aff ect their feelings and behaviour.

• SESE: Brainstorm and discuss characters from past or present who had empowering beliefs about themselves and how this helped them to achieve their goals.

Science: Explore how batteries work – YouTube (4:20) – www.otb.ie/wwb-how-batteries-work

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Lesson 1: PowerPoint SlidesWhat are Empowering Beliefs?

Lesson 1 PowerPoint is available digitally on the DVD accompanying this book.


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