Meditation and Yoga
- Katherine Victoria Vananderland
- Aug 7, 2020
- 1 min read
Meditation and Yoga
Lesson Plan #115
Teacher: Miss Katherine Victoria VanAnderland,
Original Copy
Date: 07/21/2020
Overview & Purpose
What is meditation? How have scientists explored the effects of meditation on the mind and body? In this lesson, students participate in a guided meditation, then learn about meditation and current research showing how meditation affects the brain and body. They then annotate diagrams of the brain and body with the information they’ve learned about meditation’s effects.
Education Standards
Cognitive Function
Relaxation Skills
Logic and Problem Solving
Objectives
Read Article and Do questions
Do Yoga Activities
What do you expect out of this lesson to do for you?
Materials Needed
Computers with Internet access, stopwatch.
Verification
Steps to check for student understanding
Stress Levels will go down
Clarity of thought will present itself after meditation and yoga
Write a before and after of what you feel with your five senses
Activity
Describe activity that will reinforce the lesson
What is meditation?
What changes did researchers document in the brains of people who practiced meditation for an hour a day, according to a new study? Did people in the control group, who did not meditate, experience the same changes?
How did researchers measure these changes in the brain? Do scientists understand what these changes mean?
The blog post highlights several other studies investigating how the brain body responds to meditation. What were some of these findings?
What is the hippocampus? The amygdala? What is gray matter density?
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