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Nemours KidsHealth

Stress: Grades 9-12

For Teachers 9th - 12th
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...
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Baylor College

Hormones and Stress

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
As a more personal part of a unit on brain chemistry, your class discusses stressful situations and the body's response to them. They talk about how, while the reactions are initially helpful, some can be harmful to your health. Finally,...
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Health Smart Virginia

Stress Management Performance Task

For Teachers 5th
Stress management is the focus of a three-part lesson. First, scholars brainstorm a list of activities that decrease stress. Second, they document their feeling about stress—how they feel, their triggers, and calming activity. Finally,...
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Penn State

The 4 A’S of Dealing with Stress

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Stress is rampant in today's society, and it is important that we equip young learners with the tools to cope with stress in a way that promotes lifelong health, wellness, and productivity. Discover the four A's of dealing with stress —...
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Canadian Mental Health Association

Busting Stress: Stress Management Lesson Plans

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Feeling stressed? Who are you going to call? Why stress busters, of course! A 15-page booklet includes activities designed for tweens and teens. Participants first take a stress test to determine their level of stress. They then learn...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Stress: Grades 6-8

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Two lessons take a close look at stress. In instructional activity one, scholars identify common stressors and examine stress management strategies. Lesson two challenges pupils to keep a stress log for four weeks to aid in their...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Stress: Grades K-2

For Teachers K - 2nd
Two activities focus on stress—its triggers and tools to manage it. The first activity asks pupils to identify personal stress triggers then practice stress management techniques. The second activity gets scholars up and moving with yoga...
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Lions Clubs International Foundation

Mindful Self-Management Exercise: Managing Stress

For Parents 3rd - 5th
Help scholars manage stress with an activity that prompts them to think of their feelings as clouds floating over their heads. Learners identify their feelings, focus on their responses, and allow them to float away.
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Lions Clubs International Foundation

Mindful Self-Management Exercise: Managing Stress

For Parents 6th - 12th
Let it go! As part of the Mindfulness series, pupils learn a technique to manage stress and strong emotions. While doing the deep breathing exercise, they imagine a train of stressful thoughts, take a step back, and let the train pass.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Stress Management

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Stressed? Stressed learners? Check out a lesson that includes a checklist of causes of stress, suggestions for ways to deal with stress, and a role-play activity. Definitely worth a look.
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Nemours KidsHealth

Stress: Grades 3-5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Two activities focus on stress—common stressors and coping strategies. In the first activity, scholars identify stressors and explore ways to keep stress away. To aid the process, learners create a poster and complete a handout...
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Purdue University

Well-Being: Stress Management

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Five self-paced activities introduce learners to ways to recognize and cope with stress. Pupils first use a stress tracker to log stressful times and events. They also identify stressors and list the symptoms, select activities that may...
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Overcoming Obstacles

Handling Stress

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers learn how to "put stress to rest" by identifying their stress factors and the physical and emotional signs they exhibit when stressed. After the class brainstorms ways to handle these stressors, individuals commit to...
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Health Smart Virginia

Mental Health Stress

For Teachers 9th
Improve circulation! Strengthen muscles! Reduce hypertension! Research has shown that stress balls provide these and many other benefits. Freshmen create their own stress balls in a fun, engaging activity.
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Nuffield Foundation

Monitoring the Body's Reaction to Stress

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
When stressed, do you prefer the fight or flight response? Scholars observe, measure, and identify the body's response to stress using a well-researched methodology. They learn about the autonomic nervous system, hormones, and more.
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Health Smart Virginia

Stress Management - Doctor Disease

For Teachers 8th
Doctor, doctor, help me please! As part of their study of the correlation between disease and illness, middle schoolers take on the role of doctors. They rotate through 10 learning stations, read about patients' symptoms, and write a...
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Unit Plan
Pfizer

Stress Lessons Toolkit

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
A unit plan that is over 50 pages in length offers lessons and activities that define stress, practice breathing techniques, bring awareness to triggers, refocus worries and fears, and offer practical problem-solving strategies. The unit...
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Scholastic

Stressed Out?

For Teachers 4th - 12th Standards
Provide tweens and teens with information they need to know about stress with an article that details how stress affects various organs in the body. The article also offers tips for healthy ways to cope with stress.
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Curated OER

Stress Management

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students are shown a stress management lesson using ROPES format. The lesson consist of Review: A pretest determining current stress levels. Overview: Discussion of goals and objectives of session. Presentation: Discussion of stress,...
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Curated OER

Physical Activity Can Reduce Your Stress

For Teachers 4th
Identify sources of stress in your students' everyday lives. They are introduced to ways in which they can relieve stress and consider the value of physical activity in overall health.
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Curated OER

My Response to Stress

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students search for ways to prevent stress. They conduct self-assessments, plan a stress clinic, research community resources, and write a reflective essay. Students may wear electronic heart rate monitors to demonstrate stress levels.
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Stressed Out Sally

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Life changes may cause stress. Here, scholars identify stressful situations in a peer's life and offer coping skills to make for a better day. A short story, "Stressed Out Sally," provides pupils with a look inside a bad day. After...
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The New York Times

Stress Less: Understanding How Your Mind and Body Respond to Anxiety

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
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...
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BioEd Online

Good Stress for Your Body

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Stress the importance of the different types of pressure our mind and body experience in a lesson about how certain types of stress are actually necessary and good for our bodies. As astronauts and people with injuries can attest, not...