Working Through Stress Effectively for Kids

This interactive activity contains seven separate open-ended tasks where students reflect on their own experiences of stress to form their answers. Use this activity as a summarising activity or assessment piece at the end of your work on managing stress. 

Through this activity, students will show their ability to express their knowledge and understanding of:

• Positive and negative effects of stress
• Coping strategies for home and school
• Helpful and unhelpful coping strategies
• Ways in which they prefer to cope with their stress
• Facts about stress
• Ways they can tap into their senses to cope with stress
• Using grounding techniques using their senses

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding 

A team of dedicated, experienced educators created this resource and understand that each student is on their own social and emotional learning journey. 

To assist students who are struggling with understanding how to effectively manage stress, provide them with additional resources to revise before undertaking this activity.

Easily Prepare This Interactive Activity 

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PowerPoint or Google Slides versions of this resource. 

Assign this interactive activity in Google Classroom. Please be sure to open in Edit mode, as this will enable students working independently to continue through the slides. Students click to submit their answer. 

Alternatively, use this activity as a whole-group learning activity and ask students to write their individual answers in their Health books.

This Health resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and Teach Starter Collaborator. 

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