Social-Emotional Wellness | Teachable Moments

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Finding Your Center

Being thoughtful can help us find peace when we are feeling stressed or overwhelmed. Felicia Savage Friedman of Yoga Roots on Location teaches us a simple concentration exercise that we can practice whenever we are feeling these emotions.

Acting Out Your Feelings

Learn how to use all your emotions in an acting game called, “These pretzels are making me thirsty.” Jim Scriven, a long-time faculty member of the Pittsburgh CLO Academy, demonstrates—along with some student actors—how acting out different emotions helps build confidence.

It’s Okay to be Silly! Can You Add Some Silly to Your Life?

Being silly can help reduce stress, improve mental health, and is overall just fun! Pittsburgh-based motivational speaker, comedian, and musician, Gab Bonesso, teaches us how to bring some silly into our everyday lives.

Modeling Mistakes

Jen Ford, guidance counselor at Wylandville Elementary School in Eighty-Four, PA, explains the power of talking about mistakes, and how this can be a valuable tool in teaching children how to approach their own missteps in life.

Become a Volunteer

City Mission in Washington, PA is a homeless shelter that serves nearly 175 residents including men, women, children and veterans. Leah and Beckett Dietrich explain how volunteering can help you learn new skills and become connected to a community while making a difference.

The Importance of Being Organized

How can you make your life simpler and less stressful? By staying organized! Nancy Martin, youth services assistant at the Bethel Park Public Library, talks about the importance of organization not only in the library but in our everyday lives.

How to Make a Stress Ball

Stress balls can help promote mindfulness, increase focus, and ease stress. In this Teachable Moment, Ja’Nya and Jackson, students from WQED/Steeltown Film Academy teach us how to make a stress ball using the supplies that we have at home.

Support Materials

It’s Okay to be Silly – Extension Resource
How to Make a Stress Ball – Extension Resource
Finding Your Center – Extension Resource
Act Our Your Feelings – Extension Resource
Getting Organized – Extension Resource
Modeling Mistakes – Extension Resource
Become a Volunteer – Extension Resource Sheet

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This media gallery of Teachable Moments videos focuses on social-emotional wellness concepts and activities that you can use when you’re feeling stressed or upset and ways to keep yourself organized and modeling mistakes for kids. Try out these activities on your own and check out the resources for more ways to extend the learning.

iQ: smartparent Teachable Moments are short vignettes that “extend the learning” at home or in the classroom with additional information, resources, and ideas in the form of PDFs

iQ: smartparent is an Emmy Award-winning program about parenting in the digital age. WQED-TV created a television series and social network for parents to empower them with new knowledge, tools, and abilities to successfully guide their children in the use of digital media and technology. Our show is developed in partnership with WQED’s award-winning education, production, and interactive teams.

Credits: WQED

Standards

Concepts of Health (10.1)

10.1.3.A / 10.1.5.A — Identify and describe factors that affect health.
10.1.3.B / 10.1.5.B — Describe and explain the relationship between health information and decision‑making.
10.1.3.C / 10.1.5.C — Explain how media and technology influence health behaviors.
10.1.3.D / 10.1.5.D — Identify and describe the stages of growth and development.
10.1.3.E / 10.1.5.E — Identify and explain the basic body systems and their functions.

Healthful Living (10.2)

10.2.3.A / 10.2.5.A — Identify and explain personal health decisions and the factors that influence them.
10.2.3.B / 10.2.5.B — Identify and describe strategies to avoid or reduce health risks.
10.2.3.C / 10.2.5.C — Explain the role of media and technology in health and safety.
10.2.3.D / 10.2.5.D — Identify and describe the benefits of positive health practices.

Social‑Emotional Wellness Connections

10.1.3.A / 10.1.5.A — Identify factors that affect emotional health.
10.2.3.A / 10.2.5.A — Identify decision‑making strategies related to emotions and relationships.
10.2.3.D / 10.2.5.D — Describe the benefits of positive emotional health practices.
10.3.3.A / 10.3.5.A — Recognize safe interpersonal behaviors.