Nemours KidsHealth
Stress: Grades 9-12
Everyone feels stress from time to time, but how can you move past it? A seven-page packet of activities guides high schoolers through the process of recognizing and managing their stress. The resource includes discussion topics, a quick...
The New York Times
Stress Less: Understanding How Your Mind and Body Respond to Anxiety
What could be more relevant to teens and preteens than experiencing stress? Use an article from the New York Times website to practice valuable Common Core skills for informational text reading, and also get a discussion going in your...
Curated OER
Stress Management
Stressed? Stressed students? Check out a instructional activity that includes a checklist of causes of stress, suggestions for ways to deal with stress, and a role-play activity. Definitely worth a look.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Pre-Reading Hamlet with "Hamlet: An Insider’s Guide"
Prove that Gertrude did kill Ophelia from practicing the word inflections activities with these pre-reading strategies for Hamlet. Thespians practice the line, “Is that your sandwich?” as they stress and accent different words, and...
American English
Welcome to the Color Vowel Chart
Focus English language learners' attention on word stress and phrase stress with a pronunciation chart that breaks the sounds into moving and non-moving vowel sounds. The chart tool uses colors and key words to indicate where to put the...
Curated OER
Combining with Participial Phrases
Combine participial phrases and creative writing with this lesson plan, which is equally helpful for writing skills and conventions. After a mini-lesson plan on participial phrases and reading the picture book Dancing in the Wings,...
University of North Carolina
Dissertations
Bring on the coffee—it's dissertation time! As a handout on dissertations explains, over 50 percent of PhD candidates never finish their dissertations. The handout, part of a larger series on specific writing styles, helps motivate...
Wilson Language Training Corporation
Handwriting Worksheets
Support your pupils as they learn how to write the alphabet, words, and even sentences. The handwriting pages all use the Wilson Writing Grid, in which each line corresponds with a particular letter height and an image (for example, the...
Road to Grammar
Health
Are your English language learners feeling unwell? Provide them with the tools to express how they are feeling and to talk about health in general. Included here are discussion activities, vocabulary, listening activities, grammar...
Have Fun Teaching
March Journal Prompts
Engage your class in writing right away during the month of March. This resource provides writing prompts for every day in March, and each is decorated with a shamrock. For most of the prompts, learners use creative writing skills,...
ProCon
Is Homework Beneficial?
Does homework improve student achievement, or does it increase stress? Scholars use the included debate topics website to prepare for a class discussion or debate about whether homework is advantageous. After reading a brief background...
Curated OER
Health Education: Stress
Fourth graders tackle stress. In this personal health lesson plan, 4th graders predict physical and emotional reactions to stressful situations.
Curated OER
Health Education: Stress 2
Fourth graders investigate how to deal with stress. In this personal health lesson plan, 4th graders identify family, school, and community resources as sources of social support to reduce or prevent stress.
Curated OER
Stress
For this stress worksheet, students, with a partner, rank fourteen occupations in order of how stressful they can be, explain the underlined words and phrases in seven sentences and start up a conversation with ten key questions.
Curated OER
Stress
Fifth graders evaluate how stress affects them. In this health lesson plan, the students create cans describing what stress feels like and then use marbles to show stressful feelings they have experienced. After listening to the book...
Curated OER
Health Education: Stress Management
Third graders deal with stress. In this personal health lesson plan, 3rd graders define stress and demonstrate positive stress management strategies.
Family & Children's Service
Children in Change
While children may not have the opportunity to directly affect the changes happening in their family life, help them develop necessary coping skills for expressing their emotions and dealing with those changes.
Curated OER
Star Wars – a Relaxation Lesson
Take young padawans on a journey towards ultimate relaxation with a series of Star Wars themed yoga poses. Following a mindful and imaginative story, the force is strong with stretches including the Rey's Pole, R2D2, Yoda, and more!
Curated OER
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens Worksheet
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...
Poetry4kids
Rhythm in Poetry: I Am the Iamb
It's fun to write a poem with iambs! Practice using iambs in all types of different poems with an online poetry lesson.
English Language Support Programme
Traditional Irish Music
Celebrate sean-nós, céilí, and the lilting music of the Emerald Isle with a set of language arts activities! Learners complete word puzzles, vocabulary exercises, and comprehension questions about traditional Irish music.
Curated OER
Paragraph Structure
Make sure your writers have the buns and the meat in their paragraph burgers with paragraph exercises. The resource gradually leads up to individuals writing their own paragraphs, starting with identification exercises, moving on to a...
Originator
Endless Alphabet
Engage emergent readers with colorful monster animations as they practice sound-letter correspondence, develop phonemic awareness, and gain new vocabulary.
Novelinks
Maus: Bingo Vacabulary Strategy
The definitions for unfamiliar words drawn from Art Spiegelman graphic novel memoir, Maus, provide the clues for a vocabulary bingo game.