Happiness Brief Lesson Plan Ideas

 Today I had a lesson with my CPE group about Happiness.

These photos come from the book we have been using Objective Profiency. The lead-in questions went like this: What makes you happy?

So I asked my students to come up with a list of minimum 10 things that make them happy. Meanwhile I was able to draft a list of my own. Hopefully, I will find time to jazz it up later on.

• looking at the sunset
• looking at the fire
• hearing the laugh of my kids
• swimming
• playing with my kids
• stroking a cat
• seeing smiles on my students' faces
• feeling loved and hugged
• reading or watching a good story
• spending time with my family
• listening to uplifitng/soothing music
• dancing
• travelling
• seeing beautiful nature sites
• breathing in the sea air
• listening to the way the sea hugs the shore
• feeling the sea caressing my feet

Some more fruitful ideas can be found in this video:

Maybe after having watched this piece your students would like to add more ideas to their lists. This video can cause some discussion in the classroom as well. For example, does the idea of happiness change with age? Does your perception of happiness get modified or evolve throughout your life? This discussion might become a springboard to further philosophical debate.

There are a bunch of quotes related to happiness that might be logical to include and share your thoughts on the matter.

These quotes are from the same book we used:

You might even want your students to contemplate on happiness either orally or via writing an essay.

Some people would argue that the state of euphoria tends to always fleet away, others would sincerely believe that happiness is not that transient at all and may last for quite a long period of time. Which opinion do you agree with and why?

Naturally the lesson is not the place where you would find an ultimate fit-all size solution to happiness, but hopefully it may lead you in the direction to your personal route?