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Hormones and Stress Lesson PlanHormones and Stress Lesson Plan
Publisher
Baylor College
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Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
Science
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Duration
30 mins
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Year
2013
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Hormones and Stress

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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, they write about ways that stress can be minimized. The discussion and writing exercise is ideal for meeting middle school Next Generation Science Standards, and would be best used alongside other unit components. 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

anxiety, hormones, stress management, the central nervous system

Additional Tags

hormone, anxiety, stress, brain chemistry, science

Pros

  • Personalizes scientific information about brain function
  • Part of a comprehensive brain chemistry unit

Cons

  • Simply discussing and writing about stress response may not engage middle schoolers

Common Core

RST.6-8.1

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