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Writing
Curated OER

Student Opinion: What Are You Afraid Of?

For Students 7th - 12th
A great resource for informational texts as well as writing topics, the New York Times website provides writing prompts about various news articles through The Learning Network. This particular worksheet provides a very short...
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Lesson Plan
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Fears and Phobias

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Take the fear out of reading with this series of three lessons from HotWire Magazine about fears and phobias. Each lesson plan contains pre-reading and post-reading activities aimed at improving learners' reading comprehension skills...
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Worksheet
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Puzzle By Phobias: Word Search

For Students 7th - 10th
For this word search worksheet, students search for scientific terminology for phobias. These are the root words that eventually became English words for common phobias.
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Lesson Plan
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Confidence

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars explore communication and confidence issues. In this communication and confidence lesson, students discuss fear, stage fright, phobia's in relation to the planks of confidence. Young scholars view a related film. Students...
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Article
Aetna Intelihealth

Aetna: Inteli Health: Generalized Anxiety Disorder

For Students 9th - 10th
Thorough overview of GAD. Includes information on symptoms, prevention, treatment, and more.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Do Fears Change With Age?

For Students 9th - 10th
Although some of us may not like to admit it, everyone's afraid of something. Big dogs, thunderstorms, public speaking, heights: what are you most afraid of? Do you think grown-ups have the same fears as kids? The goal of this project is...
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Website
Other

The Phobia List: Treatment for Phobias

For Students 9th - 10th
This site talks about different ways to cure someone of his phobia, and how not everyone reacts the same way to the same treatment.
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Article
Other

Trauma Information Pages: Anxiety

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses types of anxiety disorders, phobias, symptoms of anxiety, treatments, and when there is a need to seek help.
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Website
Mental Health America

Mental Health America: Phobias

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of phobias. This resource lists types of phobias, and discusses treatment options (behavioral therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy).
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Article
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Kids Health: Figuring Out Phobias

For Students 3rd - 5th
A phobia is "an extremely strong fear of a situation or thing." Phobias don't just last a few minutes, they are fears that stay with you. A kid who has a phobia of dogs will go out of his way to avoid any situation that involves his...
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Article
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Kids Health: Being Afraid

For Students 3rd - 8th
This easy-to-understand guide reveals what anxiety is and what it is not. Find out what some of the ways to deal with anxiety are, and what causes some people to be especially anxious.
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Article
Other

Healthy Place: What Are Social Phobias?

For Students 9th - 10th
Easy conversational language discussion of the enigmatic origins of phobias and encouraging news for phobia sufferers.
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Website
Other

Social Phobia & Social Anxiety Association

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource describes what social phobias are, who has them, and what percent of the population has them. This in-depth site has all kinds of information pertaining to social disorders.
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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Being Afraid

For Students 3rd - 5th
Everyone is afraid of something. Maybe you're afraid of heights, your friend might be scared of the big monster that lives in his closet, and your little sister is spooked by circus clowns. We all have different fears, and they may even...
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Website
University of Washington

University of Washington: Neurological Disorder Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
Eighteen different categories of mental illness are a part of this resource. Each category of illness has multiple links allowing for a very thorough investigation of each disorder.
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Website
Other

The Phobia List: Class Categories

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes three different categories of phobias, and explains what each phobia consists of. It also talks about what phobias are in general along with the diagnosis for a phobia.
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Website
Other

Temple: Adult Anxiety Clinic: Social Anxiety

For Students 9th - 10th
This site talks about what a social phobia is, gives a check list to see if you may have a social phobia, and has treatment for it.
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Handout
Remedy Health Media

Health Central: Phobias

For Students 9th - 10th
Health Central library offers information on what a phobia is and on specific phobias and their treatments.
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Website
Other

The Phobia List: How Phobias Are Named

For Students 9th - 10th
This site talks about where the name for phobia came from, and how each phobia gets it's name.
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Article
New York Times

New York Times: Health Guide: Phobia

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] One-page overview of the causes, symptoms, and treatment of simple, specific phobias.