Community and Health - Psychiatrist
Healthy
Minds
Primary
Middle
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Numeracy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding
Philosophy
1. In an episode of BTN in 2015, Kirrilie, a Child Psychologist (yes this is different to a Psychiatrist!) had some good strategies for students to do when they were:
- Worried
- Mad
- Sad
2. Look at the Healthy Minds episode and with a partner discuss the strategies that Kirrilie and the students involved recommend. Are they strategies that you use? What other strategies do you use to keep a healthy mind?
3. In 2015, BTN ran a Happiness Survey. In 2017, in conjunction with the University of Melbourne, BTN ran another survey. Here are the results of the 2015 survey:
4. In groups of 4 - 5, you are to develop your own survey on Survey Monkey for students at your school from Years 3 - 8.
It is important to ask questions that will help you compare to the Happiness Survey but also extend it to questions that you think are important.
Are
Smart Phones really contributing to a downturn in teenage mental illness?
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding
Philosophy
Cooperative
Learning Activity
Teacher
Teachers you will need to read this article beforehand to condense the
article or get your students to read the full article.
1. In an article in The Conversation 15 November 2017, the author Jean Twenge, Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University claims that the extensive use of smart phones is causing detrimental effects to teenage mental health.
Is this really the case here in Australia?
2.
As a class, conduct a discussion whereby you are to come up with questions based on the article. Write all the questions down with your name next to your question on butcher's paper so you can keep it over several lessons.
3. Create an anonymous survey using Survey Monkey by using the student questions.
4. Analyse the results and answer the question:
"Are Smart Phones really contributing to a downturn in teenage mental illness in Australia?"
