Dear Body - Lesson Plan Bundle (4 Lesson Plans)

Body image is both mental and emotional. It is not just about what you see in the mirror, it is also about how you feel about your body when you look in the mirror. Having a healthy body image means that you truly accept yourself as you are right now. You don’t need to change in order to accept yourself. 

Grade Level: 3-5

Lesson Plan Durations: 35 - 45 mins each

Lessons:

• Lesson Plan 1: All The Faces We See
• Lesson Plan 2: You Will Always Be Enough
• Lesson Plan 3: Think Before You Speak
• Lesson Plan 4: Being Beautifully Ourselves

Learning outcomes:

It is expected that students will: 

• Recognize that judging people can hurt them. 
• Identify and explore ways to get to know someone before they judge them.
• Recognize that who a person is is more important than what they look like.
• Recognize that they are worthy. 
• Identify and explore ways to create a positive self-image. 
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to create self-acceptance for themselves and for others.
• Recognize how powerful the words they say are.
• Identify and explore ways to speak words of encouragement and love instead of negativity and hurtful teasing. 
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to make people feel more confident in who they are instead of insecure
• Recognize what messages their culture and the media are sending them about body image.
• Identify and explore ways to combat these potentially negative messages from culture and the media.  
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to truly accept themselves as they are right now.

Bundle includes: 

• All Dear Body lesson plans and accompanying printable material

Required materials (not included):

All The Faces We See

• Paper and pens
  
• Screen & speakers for viewing videos

You Will Always Be Enough

• Poster board
• I Am Enough by Grace Byers

Think Before You Speak

• Tease Monster by Julia Cook
• Screen & speakers for viewing videos

Being Beautifully Ourselves

• Beautifully Me by Nabela Noor (Read Aloud)
• Screen & speakers for viewing videos

NB: Purchase includes access to streamable video and downloadable resources for 6 months.