Doomscrolling Lesson
By Graphene - Digital Life Lessons
This doomscrolling lesson helps grades 7–12 students explore screen time, social media, mental health, emotional regulation, digital wellbeing, online habits, phone use, and media literacy. Most students, and probably many adults too, know the feeling: picking up their phone to check something and putting it down much later feeling worse than when they started. Students identify why doomscrolling is hard to stop, examine common triggers like boredom, anxiety, loneliness, FOMO, procrastination, and habit, and compare what people usually do with more helpful alternatives. This resource helps students understand the psychological loop behind doomscrolling without blaming or shaming them for getting stuck in it. This is a low-prep, structured discussion lesson designed to help students think clearly, not tell them what to think. It gives teachers a practical way to discuss screen time, social media habits, platform design, and emotional regulation without turning the lesson into a phone-shaming lecture or a mental health diagnosis activity. Check my blogpost that dives a bit deeper. Useful for health class, advisory, school counseling, digital wellbeing, media literacy, digital citizenship, life skills, screen time lessons, SEL, or any unit on social media, emotional regulation, and online habits. This activity is part of the Social Media and Digital Life bundle — a set of 7 activities covering social media safety, the attention economy, FOMO and social comparison, doomscrolling,
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