Planning for change
Plan, rehearse and reflect on strategies to cope with changes and transitions they experience, such as a new class or school, moving house, family changes or the changes of puberty
Lesson
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“Planning for change means planning, rehearsing, and reflecting on strategies for life transitions. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.”
Bring to the table
- Change cards: new class, moving, family change
- Plan / rehearse / reflect cards
Extra for the adult
Worked example. If I start a new class, I can plan to sit with a buddy, rehearse saying hello, and reflect on what helped.
Optional challenge. For Planning for change, include plan + rehearse + reflect.
What to notice. Keep one parent note: change named; plan rehearsed; support used. This session samples planning for change, not mastery of counselling.
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Planning for change means planning, rehearsing, and reflecting on strategies for life transitions. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.
Spend about 12 minutes picking a change, making a simple plan, rehearsing one line, then reflecting.
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What is Mental Health?
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What is Mental Health? supports Planning for change. An adult previews and guides; this is a learning page, not a scored quiz.
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Public SAMHSA page. An anonymous GET on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt for this URL. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. An adult should preview and guide the learner.
SAMHSA. “What is Mental Health?.” External page; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute materials.
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Check understanding
- Identify an upcoming change (e.g. a new class, moving house or the start of puberty) and list feelings they might have
- Make a plan of coping strategies for the change and rehearse one (e.g. role-play introducing themselves in a new class, or practise what to say to a trusted adult about body changes)
- After the change, reflect on which strategies helped and what they would do differently
“Before a big change — a new class, moving house or body changes — can your child make a plan for coping, practise it, and talk afterwards about what helped?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Self-Regulation & Resilience
- Age range
- Ages 8–12
Standards