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Missouri Department of Elementary

The Hope to Cope: Coping Skills

For Teachers 6th
Making decisions can be stressful, even for sixth graders. And even students this young have developed coping skills, some positive and some negative, to help them deal with stress. Class members are asked to identify several of their...
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Health Smart Virginia

Stressors, Coping Strategies, Mindfulness breathing

For Teachers 7th
After discussing the benefits of positive coping strategies, class members practice the stress management and stress reduction technique of Mindfulness Breathing.
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Health Smart Virginia

Mindfulness Breathing

For Teachers 7th
The more you practice, the better you get. That's the big idea behind a lesson plan for middle schoolers about using mindfulness breathing techniques to reduce stress. Class members practice Star Breathing and Rainbow Breathing exercises...
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Health Smart Virginia

Mindfulness Yoga

For Teachers 7th
Standing pose, tree pose, warrior pose, easy pose. Middle schoolers learn several basic yoga exercises and poses that can help them relax. They also keep a four-week stress log to track stressful situations and how they dealt with them.
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Health Smart Virginia

Mental and Emotional Health

For Teachers 6th
Working in groups, sixth-graders identify internal factors that negatively impact them. Then, explain how they could change that factor into a positive influence. Finally, individuals create personal mind maps that identify their...
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Lions Clubs International Foundation

Introduction to Mindful Breathing

For Parents 6th - 12th
Mindful breathing or belly breathing is the basis for most mindfulness exercises. Introduce mindfulness practices with a short exercise in breath awareness designed to reduce stress and increase awareness.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Stressed and Strained

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore stress and strength in engineering design. In this engineering lesson, students become familiar with terminology associated with stress and strain on building material. They will have a class discuss about how their beam...
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Curated OER

Pronunciation: Practicing Stress and Intonation

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars improved pronunciation by focusing on the stress-time nature of spoken English.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Stress in English

For Students 4th - 8th
In this stress in English activity, students mark the stressed syllables in a set of words after reading a brief paragraph of information about how to proceed.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Bone Stress

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Lighten up a bit with this activity! Use an old-fashioned overhead projector to shine light through a pair of polarizing filters. Place a stressed plastic object in between and display the colors of light waves revealed! Rotate the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens Worksheet

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
Based on the bestselling series, this worksheet details seven habits of highly defective teens, and prompts young learners to consider their own social and emotional tendencies. What kinds of experiences do your pupils have with being...
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PPT
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Positively Autism

What to Expect on Halloween: A Halloween Social Story

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Halloween can be scary but knowing what to expect can reduces stress. Here's a story that teaches learners with autism what to expect and how to behave on Halloween. Each page in the 10-page story features one part of a typical Halloween...
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Lesson Plan
University of Minnesota

Makes Me Sweat

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Never let them see you sweat ... unless you can't help it! Scholars design an experiment to determine the effects of stress on the body. They monitor sweat production under different conditions and relate the response to the function of...
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Curated OER

Bag It

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students identify positive and negative ways of dealing with stress. The lesson plan helps each child recognize how stress affects his or her feelings.
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Curated OER

The Effect of Math Anxiety on Cardiovascular Homeostasis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the effect stress due to test anxiety may have on the heart. As part of the experiment, students hypothesize, collect data, graph data, analyze data and formulate an understanding of their personal level of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Relaxation Station

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the Relaxation Station which teaches students how to C.O.P.E. with stress and anxiety. They discover helpful strategies to use in a classroom center.
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Curated OER

Breaking Things on Purpose

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils predict the required stress to break a candy bar. They examine how a various substances break and infer a cause for the type of break. Students relate the candy bar experiment to the importance of nanotech laboratory work and how...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Teaching Awareness of Human Development

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students examine the process of human development and identify the reasons for a good nights sleep. Individually, they write a list of the situations in their lives which are stressful. As a class, they discuss myths about stress and...
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Curated OER

How Does One Cope With Life-Changing Events?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify coping skills during times of stress. In this mental health lesson, 2nd graders read the story, Stressed Out Sally and brainstorm events that produce stress. Students rewrite a different version of the story...
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Interactive
Curated OER

The Effects of Stress: Pre-reading Exercise 2

For Students 7th - 11th
In this stress synonyms worksheet, students identify the words related to stress and select the best synonyms from multiple choices.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Stress Dolls

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders compare responsibilities, opportunities and expectations of pioneer students to their own lives. They identify sources of stress and ways to alleviate stress.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Breaking News English: Stress and Dolphins

For Students 5th - 10th
In this stress and dolphins worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Wellness Day

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Plan a wellness day! Invite speakers from community resources to come and present and participate in a wellness day. Reinforce how important it is to take care of the whole body and how the choices they make now can make a difference...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Detecting Breast Cancer

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students develop a painless means for identifying cancerous tumors.  In this imaging lesson students list the information that may be needed to answer the problem.

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