Students explore the physical and psychological effect of stress and tension on human beings. Concepts of stress and stress management are introduced. Students discover how perception serves to fuel a huge industry dedicated to...

This site from Family Doctor.org provides fundamental information on the issue of stress. Learn about frequent causes, your body's physical response, and ways you can cope with the stresses in your life.

A fact sheet presenting basic information on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder including causes, symptoms, treatments and other related resources.

To experience the three types of material stress related to rocks - tensional, compressional and shear - students break bars of soap using only their hands. They apply force created by the muscles in their own hands to put pressure on...

WebMD provides a page that lists and discusses ways in which you can avoid/manage stress.

Research study on the relationship between turnover among USDA Extension Directors and job stress.

Explore the physiological effects of stress, and investigate the techniques of Tibetan monks to regulate their body temperature. Attach a thermistor to your fingertip to see if relaxation techniques can produce changes in body temperature.

This site, which is provided for by the Sweet Briar College, contains a list of things that contribute to stress.

We are all faced with stress in our lives but too much can be damaging. This resource delves into the symptoms of stress, dealing with stress, work related stress, and tackling work stress.

Find ten tips to help you reduce stress and to feel better emotionally and physically. The tips on this website, which include "Fuel up," "Have fun with friends," and "Take time to chill," will help "Keep you cool, calm, and collected."

Reflect on what makes one angry and how one responds to anger. Practice anger management and conflict resolution through the "I-Message" communication technique and other group activities.

Discusses the paradoxes and growth involved in T'ai Chi.

Great lesson plans covering a wide-range of health-related subjects. Focusing on all grades, teach young scholars bike safety, first aid, a map of their mouths, and stress management. A wonderful resource for wonderful teachers!

This site from MayoClinic.com provides great information on meditation. The article is entitled, "Meditation: Calming your mind, body and spirit". Describes what meditation is and how it works, along with giving a list of links.

Business careers don't have to involve high-stress management, financial finagling or marketing a product you don't like. If you'd rather not flog Cheetos; if you're looking for something that's a little more meaningful, then the field...

Great lesson plans covering a wide-range of health-related subjects. Focusing on all grades, teach students bike safety, first aid, a map of their mouths, and stress management. A wonderful resource for wonderful teachers!

Learning how to make the best use of your time can become easier with a daily planner. Discover how to set daily attainable goals to minimize stress levels by using a tool best suited to your lifestyle.

This resource presents a terms list of psychological defenses, including withdrawal, displacement, sublimation, and projection, with definitions and typical manifestations.

Students explore the physical and psychological effect of stress and tension on human beings. They develop their observing, thinking, writing and teamwork skills by working on a group art project and reporting about it. They learn about...

Students write a biographical sketch of an artist or athlete who lives on the edge, riding the gravity wave, to better understand how these artists and athletes work with gravity and manage risk. Note: The literacy activities for the...

Students explore the theme of conflict in literature. They learn the difference between internal and external conflict and various types of conflicts, including self against self, self against other, and self against nature or machine....

Students design a simple behavioral survey, and learn basic protocol for primary research, survey design and report writing. Note: The literacy activities for the Mechanics unit are based on physical themes that have broad application to...

Students learn about stress and strain by designing and building beams using polymer clay. They compete to find the best beam strength to beam weight ratio, and learn about the trade-offs engineers make when designing a structure.

When something goes wrong, do you like to try to figure out why? Engineers do this all the time. They even have a fancy name for it: failure analysis. Understanding how different materials break is an important part of failure analysis....