Personal & social development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Coping with Life Changes

Understand that change is a normal part of life — such as starting school, getting a new teacher, a new baby arriving, or moving house — and identify simple strategies that help them cope with changes

Ages
5 to 7
Type
Concept
Builds on
1 topic
Leads to
1 topic
Standards
1 code

Quick check

When something changes in the learner's life — like getting a new teacher at school — can they talk about how it makes them feel and think of ways to help themselves adjust?

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Topic // Mastery

What mastery looks like

What a learner can do once this topic is secure.
  • Name at least two changes they have experienced and how they felt
  • Identify a person they can talk to when a change feels hard
  • Describe one strategy that helps them cope with change, such as keeping a familiar routine

Topic // Map

Where this fits

What to learn first and what this topic opens up, with the reason for each link. Required links come first.
  • RequiredMust come first
  • HelpfulHelps, but not essential

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1 topic
  • Words for Big FeelingsHelpful

    Self-Regulation & Resilience // Ages 5 to 8

    Coping with change draws on vocabulary like 'cope', 'strategy', and 'settle'

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Coping with Life Changes

Ages 5 to 7 // Concept

Leads to

1 topic

Topic // Standards

Curriculum standards

Codes for the curriculum statements this topic maps to. Each publisher owns its standard text.
IB PYP Personal, Social and Physical Education (PSPE) Scope and Sequence
PSPE-ID-LO-P2-7

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