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Exploring Happiness: Teens Then and Now

This lesson focuses on understanding what makes teenagers happy in today's society compared to those in the Middle Ages. Students will create a list of happiness factors to share with their partners, and then collaboratively explore how different cultures impact happiness. Using criteria such as education, relationships, and overall wellbeing, students will analyze societal advancements over the last century. Finally, they will create posters to visually compare and contrast the happiness of teens across cultures and time periods.

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Exploring Happiness: Teens Then and Now

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  1. Happiness (again) • What makes you happy? • Make a list of things that make you happy • Share with your partner • With your partner, make a list of things that you think make teenagers in our culture happy. • These should be more general ideas, but specific to our current culture

  2. Lesson 6 – Review and Revise Driving Question & Need to Knows

  3. Our Driving Question • To what extent are teenagers today happier than teenagers in the middle ages? • We will be comparing our society and culture to several different ones throughout the middle ages

  4. Need to Knows • To be able to answer our driving question what are our Need to Knows? • What knowledge do we need to be able to answer that question? • To what extent are teenagers today happier than teenagers in the middle ages? • Do we need to add anything to this list?Is there anything we need to remove from this list?

  5. Our Criteria (so far…) The following is the list of criteria we created that we thought was necessary for happiness Education Love Relationships Hobbies Pastimes Religion Beliefs • Food • Water • Clothes • Shelter • Health • Healthcare • Safety • Learning

  6. Why is Life so Great Now? • People say that our society has progressed immensely over the past 100 years. • We have had huge breakthroughs in science, healthcare, technology, business, and humanitarian aid. • In your journal, on a new page, I want you to answer the following question… • Why is life so great right now? Are people happy in today’s society?

  7. What are you doing? • You will create a poster, comparing a society from the Middle Ages with our current culture today • You will base it on the criteria we have created for how to judge happiness • Your poster will be an outline of one of your group members

  8. Groups & Topics • You will be assigned a group of 4 • You can pick from one of these topics • Japan • China • Islamic Empire • Mayan • Aztec • Inca • Specific First Nations Group

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