Emotion, Stress, and Health
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Provided by: Crash Course|Published on: September 12, 2022
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Synopsis
- This educational video about emotions and stress discusses the psychology and biology of emotions, how stress affects our health, and how facial expressions can be universally interpreted.
- It uses examples from Harry Potter to explain some topics and highlights the positive and negative effects of emotions on our health and overall well-being.
Subjects: Biology, Health
Authors: Crash Course
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This resource provides a table of contents below the video to help locate information within the video.
- The video includes an entertaining narrator and engaging graphics that aid in comprehension.
Additional Prerequisites
- It may help to gauge students' experiences with topics related to emotions and mental health prior to viewing the video.
- Younger students may benefit from having the video paused periodically to help them keep up with the fast-paced presentation of information.
Differentiation
- Provide students with a graphic organizer that reinforces vocabulary meanings.
- Put students into groups and have them make a chart showing the ways that emotions can be both beneficial and detrimental to our health.
- Biology, anatomy, physiology, or psychology classes could use this video to introduce the topic of climate anxiety and depression.
- Consider having students engage in this outdoor journaling activity that encourages time in nature as an important mental health treatment.
- Teachers could also use this video to help students unpack their feelings specifically about climate anxiety.
- Have students watch this video about how green spaces can improve your overall health to come up with a project that the entire class can participate in to add another green space at your school.
Emotions can have both positive and negative impacts on our overall well-being. This video describes the psychology of emotions and how they play a role in our health. This resource is recommended for teaching.
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