Learning Goal: Students will explore avenues to help them lower stress levels in a crisis or anxious situation.
Activity #1: Grade 9 Stress!
What exactly does stress look like when you're in grade 9? What type of things stress you out? Have a short classroom discussion of all the stressful things in your lives at the moment.
Activity #2: Strategies and Management Handout - Click Here!
Activity #3: Stress in your Life
Choose two or three sources of stress in your life. In a chart, list these stressors, the strategies you can use to manage stress and how these strategies will help. What skills could you add to improve your overall management skills? Which ones need refining to make them more effective? Have your chart look like this one below.
Stressor
Stress #1
Stress #2 Stress #3 |
How I manage this stress
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Can I improve management?
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How can I refine this skill?
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