First, explore rich geographical mental health education resources to promote students' mental health development.
Geography is a science that studies the geographical environment and the relationship between human activities and geographical environment. It is an important part of the basic knowledge education of science and culture in middle schools, an important task for students to establish a correct view of population, human resources and land, and plays an irreplaceable role in improving the scientific and cultural quality of the whole nation. No subject reflects the objective reality as widely as geography. Geographical environment provides rich objective reality for human psychological activities and becomes the driving force of human psychological development. Understanding the universe is to cultivate students to establish a scientific view of the universe (the universe is material, moving and knowable), criticize idealistic theological concepts (such as God creating everything), make students believe and love science, and establish a scientific attitude of seeking truth from facts and the spirit of being brave in exploration. China is particularly rich in tourism resources, so we can use the beauty of mountains, seas and Yuan Ye to glow students' love for nature. National conditions and policy education are the advantages of our geography discipline. National education is an important part of ideological education, and many countries in the world attach great importance to national education for citizens. For example, China is rich in natural resources, and its absolute quantity ranks among the top in the world. These advantages are conducive to enhancing students' self-esteem and self-confidence. However, the amount of per capita resources is small, the utilization is not reasonable, and some resources are seriously damaged. These disadvantages help to enhance students' sense of hardship, crisis and social responsibility. Patriotism is loyalty and love for the motherland. Lenin said, "Patriotism is the deepest feeling for the motherland consolidated for thousands of years". By teaching superior natural conditions, splendid cultural heritage and great achievements in the construction of new China, students' strong sense of national pride can be enhanced.
Second, create a good classroom atmosphere to promote the healthy development of students' psychology
Creating a good teaching environment and promoting the healthy development of students' various non-intellectual psychological factors require us to establish a democratic, equal and cooperative teacher-student relationship with students. Psychologists point out that "people's psychological problems are restricted by social, cultural and economic factors, and mental health and psychological problems are changeable, reversible and developing." A relaxed, free, active and lively teaching psychological environment can make students' minds clear and improve their learning enthusiasm and understanding. On the contrary, depressed mood will inhibit people's brain, hinder people's thinking, and even produce rebellious psychology, which will seriously affect learning efficiency. Teachers' sense of humor, witty language and a little joke in the teaching process can stimulate students' nerves, make students study in a pleasant atmosphere, change hard study into happy study, and change "I want to learn" into "I want to learn", thus giving full play to the main role of students' learning, greatly improving teaching efficiency and making students grow up healthily physically and mentally. We should pay attention, trust, expectation and encouragement to all students in class, so that every student can achieve certain success every day, experience joy, improve confidence and courage in success, and thus gain the motivation to "go up a storey still higher". For example, when I was studying "The Nationalities of China", I went among the students to see if there were any ethnic minority students in my class, if they had been to ethnic minority areas and understood the customs of ethnic minorities, if they could sing ethnic minority songs and dance ethnic minority dances. Through teaching, cultivate students' correct interpersonal relationship and promote the healthy development of body and mind.
Third, cultivate students to learn useful geographical knowledge and promote their mental health development.
Geography curriculum standard aims at cultivating students' ability to know, adapt, participate and transform society, and applying knowledge to life is the direction of students' learning. Therefore, it is acceptable for students to choose geographical events and knowledge that have a great influence on the formation and development of real society for psychological education. Therefore, it is necessary to highlight the reality and reference of geographical knowledge, so as to make psychological education textbooks closer to students' life and reality. For example, ask students to choose a way that they are good at describing the changes in their neighborhood or village, visit local geographers by consulting local literature, understand the changes in local natural and social environment, discuss and list the changes in local social outlook in recent years, and feel the constant changes in geographical areas. Many geographical situations have strong shock and rich appeal. The influence of regional geographical environment on people's production and life is profound. The comprehensive influence of topography, climate, hydrology, vegetation and soil in different areas on people's food, clothing, housing and transportation shows different customs and habits such as food, clothing, housing and transportation and language.
These characteristics of human geography contain important geographical background and principles, which are helpful to stimulate students' interest in learning geography and appreciate its value. Modern middle school students have some life experience. If we can bring life experience into the classroom and evoke memories, it will be very helpful for teachers to understand the principles of geography. For example, in the teaching of "the relationship between the change of the sun's altitude angle and the heat gained by the ground", when buying a house, we can know whether the height of the floor is appropriate or not, and how far between the buildings will not block the light. If this abstract geographical principle can arouse life experience in teaching, the problem will be solved, students will learn concretely and cordially, and their interest in geography will be doubled.
Fourth, make full use of geography extracurricular activities to promote students' mental health development.
Geography extracurricular activities are a good form of implementing national education. It has the characteristics of flexibility and rich topics. Classroom teaching lays the foundation for students to participate in extracurricular activities, which play an auxiliary role in consolidating and supplementing classroom teaching; It also played a role in expanding, deepening and strengthening. Therefore, more and more experts and scholars pay special attention to the role of this extracurricular activity. Mr. Tao Xingzhi, an educator in China, once pointed out: We should free students' space, let them get in touch with the flowers and trees in nature, the green mountains and green waters, the sun, the moon, the stars and the dawn, get in touch with intellectuals, farmers, workers and businessmen in the big society, freely ask questions about the universe and be friends with everything. He believes that the knowledge gained in class is "listening and speaking", the knowledge gained in extracurricular practice is "intimate knowledge" and "intimate knowledge" is fundamental. Only by combining "listening and speaking" with "intimate knowledge" can classroom teaching and extracurricular activities become "true knowledge", which are inseparable and irreplaceable from the teaching process. Middle school students are in the flourishing period of body length knowledge. Organizing them to participate in some activities can make them develop physically and mentally normally, and often provide them with colorful activities, which is in line with their psychological wishes. Middle school students also have a wide range of interests and like to imitate and explore. Let them participate in various extracurricular activities, their hobbies can be cultivated and developed, and their skills and specialties can be gradually formed.
Cultivating students' comprehensive practical ability is an arduous task entrusted to us by the times. It is necessary to change the concept of education, take students as the center, start with the fields that students are familiar with, such as life, nature and society, and continue to discover and explore, extend the feasibility problems into investible topics, and do a good job in students' mental health education.