Classroom Resources for Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the TeachRock classroom resources featured below provide structured pathways for students to explore social environments and methodology about mental health awareness. Throughout these High School lesson plans, students engage in both independent learning and collaboration in a variety of group activities. TeachRock also has an abundance of educational resources for Middle School classrooms via the Harmony Student Wellness Program.
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Bystander Intervention: Making Spaces Safer for Everyone – Explore the Bystander Intervention methodology and how it makes music spaces and other public gathering places more safe, accessible, and fun for everyone. While analyzing documents and media, students discover what Bystander Intervention is, identify the 5 Ds of Bystander Intervention, and practice using the 5 Ds in a variety of social scenarios. This lesson plan has been recently updated to include Differentiation options.
View this lesson video explaining why bystander intervention takes all of us working together
Intersectionality and Punk Music in the 2020s – Identify what intersectionality is and examine how musicians in the Punk music scene navigate life at different intersections. While analyzing contemporary Punk music lyrics and viewing interviews with Punk musicians, students define intersectionality and recognize their own intersections.
View this lesson video about finding your tribe/community
“Here”: Managing Peer Pressure and Social Anxiety – Discover the ways Alessia Cara’s song “Here” defies popular music conventions and what her song says about peer pressure in youth culture. Through textual and historical analysis, students analyze how “Here” confronts Pop music conventions and they discuss how the song might inspire people to be more comfortable with themselves.
Discover the 5Ws of “Here” in this lesson handout while watching the song’s official video
Supporting Sobriety in a Musical Community – Meet the Wharf Rats and discover how they exemplify the practices of sobriety, peer support, and community building within the Grateful Dead fanbase. By analyzing the history and practices of the Wharf Rats, students engage in a discussion about the culture of drug use in music and separate the relationship between drugs and popular music culture.
