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Take students on a journey of understanding stress and how to manage it with these Britannica School activities.
Stress: We all feel it. The emotional and physical responses to stress can be caused by complex and tense situations. Stress experts say self-relaxation techniques such as deep breathing, muscle relaxation, and meditation can help people—students included—manage stress.
Introducing stress management, mental health care, and relaxation techniques to K-12 students provides them with powerful mindfulness tools they can use throughout their lives. Take a deep breath, and let’s learn how we can better equip our students and ourselves to manage stress.
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Dive in! Dig deeper with the following video and activities
⇒ WATCH: Reactions: Why Too Much Stress Is Bad For You
It’s supposed to help keep your body healthy in stressful situations. But the constant stress of our everyday lives means we’re getting overexposed to the hormone cortisol.
In this American Chemical Society “Reactions” video (found in the “stress” entry in Britannica School) Raychelle Burks, Ph.D. explains why too much cortisol is bad for you in this episode of the Reactions series “Get To Know A Molecule.”
⇒ TRY: Chill Out! Classroom Relaxation Exercises for All Ages
Help students calm their nerves and focus with classroom exercises for every age that you can do in 5 minutes or less!
Now what? Make it stick with these original activity guides:
⇒ Strategy Card: Remix Riot (Managing Stress)
⇒ Graphic Organizer: Remix Riot
Differentiation Station: Citations in a Snap!
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