Teaching Elementary School Health Education/Mental and Emotional Health/Mental Alertness and Mental Health

We must teach our students to be alert, watchful and use their intelligence. When people are mentally alert they understand that their minds need exercise just as their bodies do. By promoting their mental health, students will feel good about themselves, build happy relationships and set realistic goals for themselves. As teachers we want our students lives to be happy and positive. Although life does throw some curve balls. We must educate our students to respond to these problems in a healthy way. Click here for a lesson over emotions. By teaching our students about emotions and how to deal with them, mental alertness will grow and mental health will stay high. Emotional Puppets