Stress, eustress, distress. A step-by-step plan leads middle schoolers through a lesson about coping with stress. To gather background information, scholars watch a presentation, examine a list of positive coping skills, and read articles. Then create a stress-relieving poster that identifies symptoms of stress, lists 10 positive coping strategies, and identifies who can help.

Concepts

social-emotional learning, casel, coping skills, healthy habits, stress management, stressors, mental health, anxiety

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Instructional Ideas

• Remind class members to keep all materials in their Health Smart binders
• Mount the posters on the classroom wall and around the school

Classroom Considerations

• While the links to the materials are broken, they are all included in the resource
• Learners must have access to devices with internet
• Eleventh resource in the 16-part Health Smart series designed for grade eight
• Requires copies

Pros

• Includes a rubric pupils may use as a guideline for their posters

Cons

• The links to the materials do not work