Stressed Out

Adolescents and adults can experience a great deal of stress! Equip your young learners with the skills to reduce and cope with stress. Class members will review and discuss the symptoms of stress, what situations are more likely to...

Stress management can be as specific to an individual person as his or her individual stressors. Discover the stress management methods that are right for your class members with a lesson plan on ways to relax during moments of tension...

To learn more about the current medical and psychological studies on stress, seventh graders conduct individual or group research and discuss what they found in a series of evaluation questions. They then decide whether they would use...

A stress management tool is very helpful for teachers coping with over-stimulated impulsive kids. This guide will get you on the right path to differentiated instruction and methods such as positive self-talk, progressive relaxation, and...

It's important to care about topics in your life, but caring too much about details can lead to unnecessary stress. Seventh graders explore the things that make them feel stressed out and decide whether they can reduce the amount of...

After this video, make sure to give a pop quiz on pimples! The question that is answered is whether or not pimples are caused by stress. Stress hormones give our bodies what we need for a fight or flight, but what happens if we don't do...

Motivate your class members (and yourself) to manage stress with this short video that explores what happens to the brain when it is exposed to continual stress.

Students identify ways to manage everyday stress. They participate in a class discussion about sources of stress, develop a list of ways to reduce stress, and create a "Chill-Out" calendar with daily ways to relieve their stress.