TEACHING ARTS AND TRADES WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HAPPINESS

Music, paintings, sculptures, buildings, monuments, etc. that bring happiness

• Draw* what you would consider a happy day.
• Use paper, clay, beads, fabric, etc.* to represent the happiest day you remember from age 2, 3, 4, 5.
• Make a photo collage* of your happy moments or someone else’s.
• Paint a portrait* of a happy person’s face and explain all the elements that make that person’s face happy. 
• Using colors of happiness, create a collection of paintings* which represent a spectrum of  happiness, from contentment to ecstasy, in different styles: realism, abstract painting, etc.
• Compose a piece* that contains 10 “happy elements” & progressively builds from your idea of “joy” to “ecstasy”. 
• Develop a curriculum for high school level learners* on a type of art (paintings, sculpture, music) of works by well-known masters of different epochs during the happiest periods of their lives.

• Plant flowers* you associate with happiness creating a “happy” word pattern on the ground.
  
• Produce warm clothes* (gloves, hats, scarves, et) with “happy” patterns to make you / your friend / family feel cozy and happy in cold weather.
  
• Create a useful household item* (utensil, handkerchief, furniture, etc.) using patterns & colors representing a joyful mood and/or “happiness”.
  
• Create a publicly accessible “zen” space* with 15 specific happiness related elements.
  
• Use interior design* for a complete home or room using current research on “happy” colors, patterns, & floor plans, individualized to a family.
• Ask someone* what color, shape, texture, size, smell/taste, design, etc. they associate with happiness. Make something for them based on that 
• Make a wearable aroma* that would evoke happy feelings in a person.

TEACHING ENGLISH WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HAPPINESS

Sounds, words, texts, books, interaction that make us happy

• Think of words* you associate with happiness and tell a story using them.
• Have conversations* with 3 people that include making a request, asking a question, expressing doubt, approval, & positive emotional states all by using polite vocabulary, grammar, & syntax. 
• Write a song* about happiness progress using adjectives denoting different intensity of this state.
• Use 10 metaphors, similes,comparisons (e.g. as happy as a king) and other stylistic devices* with a positive emotion word in them  to describe a very successful day in the form of a speech with humorous effect. 
• Using high vocabulary write 3 texts* of different genres (e.g. fictional or autobiographical narratives, short stories, responses to literature, persuasive compositions, etc. See Linguistics in the English molecule) focused on a happiness related topic.
• Study the semantics of English sounds, write a piece of literature or prepare a speech* based on sound combinations inducing happiness in your target audience – present it and analyze and quantify your results. 
• Write a novel* based on high frequency vocabulary about pursuit and realization of happiness in somebody’s life.

TEACHING HEALTH WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HAPPINESS

Diet, exercises, etc. that evoke happy feelings

• Do “smiling gymnastics”* for your face.
• Observe happy people, imitate their body posture, mimicry, gestures, tone of v and report on your feelings to a mentor*.
• Ask people around what their top one happiness food item is and make a list* of top ten happiness foods; give reasons and explanations.
• Develop an individual yoga / tai chi / or similar type program* for a person to make their life happier (get rid of energy blocks, heal, improve the energy balance).
• Explore foods that stimulate endorphins production in human’s body and create a poster of the foods*.
• Work out a well-balanced nutritional plan considering hours and composition of meals to enhance an individual’s happiness and wellbeing and write a pamphlet of this*. 
• Design & demonstrate* the effectiveness of a complete weekly “happiness program” incorporating positive hormone producing nutrition, daily emotional health practices, and specific exercises for specific happiness-inducing purposes. Create a brochure* for your program and free share it with others.
  

• Boost somebody’s happiness by doing 5 good things for them (help / support, friendly talk, hugs / kisses, praise, gifts, etc.) and discuss* with them how they felt to receive.
• Start up a self-love / confidence diary* for making notes of your daily achievements, victories.
• Meditate on a perfect image of yourself (state of mind, attitude, health, etc.) and draw a picture* of what you see.
• Observe your physical and emotional state while sticking to the following routine, or one you choose that has similar actions, for 7 days: wake up before dawn, watch the sunrise, take a nap no more than 15 min during the day, go to bed at sunset; monitor your state of mind every two hours and record your feelings and sensations in a diary*; make a conclusion.
  
• Study the origin, meaning, and effect of mantras that suit you best, sing them with at least one other person and exchange your feelings and perceptions*.
• Study the concept of happiness in different spiritual traditions; choose the tradition (or traditions) that resonates with your understanding of happiness, or work out your system of beliefs as a summary of the best views and principles and practice it for this week; share your perception of what you’ve experienced in a blog on the internet*.
• Study the lives of people who reached enlightenment / utter happiness, choose 3 prominent figures, explore, compare/contrast, and describe in detail their different paths to achieving this in a videotaped presentation* to middle school age learners.

TEACHING MATH WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HAPPINESS

Strategies of achieving solutions in the best way possible, etc.

• While watching a video, count and create a timeline* of happy moments you experience.
• While watching a video, count and use fractions to analyze multiple emotions/ characters/ viewers*.
• Record and analyze data* comparing task effectiveness in a happy state versus unhappy states.
• Use random sampling to infer* the average state of happiness in large groups.
• Analyze a policy proposal using probability to determine the expected effect on happiness*.
• Statistically analyze an experiment measuring how feedback affects task performance*. 
• Model resource allocation strategies and propose and defend an optimal strategy for society*.

TEACHING SCIENCE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HAPPINESS

Being aware of the laws of physics to reach happiness, chemistry of love, chemistry of cooking happy meals, etc.

• Think of animals and plants* you associate with happiness and explain why. 
• Experiment on growing a plant* to inspirational music versus without any musical background and document results.  
• Identify and name* all muscles a person uses when they smile and laugh.
• Observe and quantify* 7 measurable differences of separate experiences of happiness (friends together, people in love, people in a family circle, project partners, etc.). 
• “Charge”* water by different types of music, observe the change in molecule structure under a microscope, choose the best music for harmonious growth of organisms based on your findings.
• Research and develop an experiment* to prove or disprove energy/aura/vibration changes within people experiencing 4 specific and different states of happiness. 
• Identify* “happy bacteria” by studying the microbes & bacteria of the body & environment of a happy healthy person. Present your findings* to other scientists looking at this.

• Define* liquids that mix most “happily” together while studying density.
• Identify* “good” (from a human standpoint) liquids, hard substances, and gases and define their properties.
• Measure the frequency* of positively charged words, and in a poster* define the highest ones.
• Measure the temperature* and chemical changes of a person influenced by good music, positively charged words, involved in a favorite activity and create a chart* showing your results.
• Observe and quantify* measurable differences you can create through injecting “happiness” into 7 unique physical or chemical experiments and write a 3 to 5 page report* on the results.
• Observe and quantify* measurable differences you can create through injecting “happiness” into 7 unique physical or chemical experiments and make a poster/chart* of your results.
• Study* theories relating happiness to the “double slit experiment” & Schrodinger’s Cat, or other similar theories and make a presentation for your peers* on your findings. 
• Write a “Happy Home” manual* on 100 physics/chemistry uses of household items/solutions/tricks/tips for fixing things at home ” detail/explain the chemistry and physics of how each one works.

• Describe* “happy” weather and “happy” climate in your understanding with at least 2 other people.
• Define* the properties of minerals that improve human life in a certain way. Show this in a mind map*.
• Measure* the magnetic field of positively charged areas and create a chart* showing the information.
• Measure* perfect temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind direction, etc. for the happiest living conditions in a different time of the year and make a poster* of your measurements.
• Identify* the chemical content of the most generous soils, find ways of soil improvement (happy plants). Write a 3 to 5 page report* on this.  
• Make a report* on the role of the Sun in increasing happiness of the Earth on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels.
• Suggest a sustainable way of increasing essential resources* for a specific culture or people that will positively improve their way of life. Initiate implementation of your idea. 
• Create a model* of the Happy Earth based on an in-depth analysis of all key components necessary for its harmonious development. Initiate implementation of your idea.

TEACHING SOCIAL SCIENCES WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HAPPINESS

“Happy” periods in the history of mankind in different countries, etc.

• Choose colors* you associate with happiness. Compare that to what other people think.
• Look at traditional clothing of different cultures and explain* what kind of happiness can be associated with them.
• Analyze* the factors that make people feel happy together, share your findings with others.
• Make a presentation* on 10 countries of the world that you think are the happiest countries; and explain possible reasons of happiness and the conditions of life there.
• Interview 50 people and prepare a report* / computer-aided presentation on the happiest periods of people’s lives and reasons of their happiness.
• Prepare a group presentation* of rituals, traditions, ancient beliefs of different countries of the globes throughout history aimed at attracting, attaining, and holding to happiness; comment on the symbolic meaning of actions. 
• Research available materials on the topic “happiness” and launch a happiness project* of yours that would last a year with a different theme for each month. Initiate implementation.

• Think of 10 – 15 activities* that make you happy, explain why using new words about happiness.
• Meet 5 people* in a great mood whose language you are learning, ask them about how they feel and why and record their responses.
• Make a song* about positive emotions using as many “happiness” adjectives as possible.
• Choose 10 pictures* or things that remind you of happiness in different periods of your life, describe each of them (the reason of happiness, your exact state, what happened next).
• Make up a story* about a happy person at a happy age, in a happy environment, in a happy time of the year and life using positively charged vocabulary.
• Read 3 books* with a happiness theme in a foreign language and make a computer-aided presentation about happiness based on quotes and comments to them. 
• Prepare a magazine for publishing* which should contain articles and  photos for such rubrics for different spheres of life with happiness in mind (e.g. eating and exercising happily, happy people in a happy environment, activities to boost your happiness, and mindful happiness).

TEACHING TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HAPPINESS

Advances that help enrich society or bring more “happiness”

• Find and install a new application* and use it to draw what happiness means to you.
• Create a photo gratitude journal* of happy moments in your life.
• Create a digital collage* (photoshop or equivalent) of your happy moments over a period of 5 days.
• Record yourself experiencing emotions* and map how different emotions change your face and body.
• Create an application* that randomly prompts the user to indicate how they are feeling.
• Create a computer game* that would demonstrate the impact of a happy person on their environment. 
• Create a neural network* to schedule your day in order to be optimally happy Innovation.
  

• Describe creativity* in your life and how it affects your moods and happiness.
• Identify and explain* when you feel most creative and inspired and motivated.
• Research and write a 3 to 5 page report* how humans typically like to contribute & be rewarded, compare with yourself.
• Research and describe in a blog* the positive and negative societal effects of technology and innovations.
• Compare your task effectiveness* in a state of positive or negative reinforcement and create a chart* of this.
• Perform a group experiment* to analyze task effectiveness in positive or negative environments. 
• Propose, defend, and implement* an effective strategy for increasing task effectiveness.

TEACHING VALUES WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HAPPINESS

Love, connecting, interconnectedness, freedom, etc.- How does sticking to them make us feel more content and/or happy?

• Say “I love you” to someone 5 different ways* to make them feel good/ happy (verbally, artistically, gestures, etc.).  
• Think of a game* that would focus on finding as many connections with others for each person in a group as possible (likeness, sameness, similarities).
• Think of the core principles you follow that make you happy and direct / shoot a short film* demonstrating how you realize them in everyday activities.
• Observe 10 people* and identify their love languages; “talk” to each person in their “language” and register evidences of happiness and their expression by taking a picture* to capture the moment.
• Work out a graphic image* of a strong, conscious, self-motivated leader analyzing “golden” eras in the development of ancient and modern civilizations and identifying the traits of the leaders / rulers of these countries in these periods”.
• Create a book, composition, or stage a theatrical performance” with the theme of reaching balance between freedom and interdependency. 
• Create a college level curriculum* comparing the concept of happiness in eastern and western traditions.