In a classroom situation, the phenomena that humor and laughter often breaks ice and acts as a social glue is very important and can be exploited to improve student-teacher and student-student relations. Our suggestions are aimed at life skills courses, but can be used in any subject.

Before our seven main lessons that we suggest, a quick humor booster is to have a joke-a-day in the classroom. There are a few ways to go about it:

• Develop the joke criteria with the students (which jokes to bring in, which are inappropriate). For a class discussion, you can use the visual gathering technique, and the class discusses which are criteria are important and which aren't (e.g. no swearing and no put-down jokes). It is important for the students to create the criteria for the specific outcome of increasing a feel-good atmosphere. They set the boundaries, not imposed by teachers.
  
  
• A different person each day is responsible for bringing a joke to share with the class, or a specific joke-group is responsible.
  
  
• The joke is told at the beginning of the day or stuck up on the wall in the "Joke/Humor Corner."
  
  
• The Joke/Humor Corner is a section of the class's wall space devoted to past jokes and funny drawings.
  
  
• The students can join joke-a-day mailing lists (e.g. : http://www.Joke-Of-The-Day.com or http://www.laffaday.com/forms/13.html).

The next few pages are devoted to lesson plans for your classes. They are mere suggestions on ways to use our site and the concepts within them, in an interesting and involving way for the students. They can be rearranged and reorganised to suit your specific classroom situation.

Below is a list of lesson plans that can guide you to using LOL To Good Health in your classroom. You may either click on the lesson plan that you would like to view, or use the navigation arrows found at the bottom of each page to go through each one.

• Lesson #1: Getting information from our site
• Lesson #2: What makes something funny?
• Lesson #3: Self-awareness: bringing humor into your life
• Lesson #4: What are the common elements of emotions?
• Lesson #5: Demonstrating physiological changes in levels of arousal
• Lesson #6: Facial feedback hypothesis
• Lesson #7: Expressing emotions