Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Stress Affects Your Body

For Students 9th - 10th
Our hard-wired stress response is designed to give us the quick burst of heightened alertness and energy needed to perform our best. But stress isn't all good. When activated too long or too often, stress can damage virtually every part...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Feel the Stress

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Working individually or in groups, students explore the concept of stress (compression) through physical experience and math. They discover why it hurts more to poke themselves with mechanical pencil lead than with an eraser. Then they...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Stress, Strain and Hooke's Law

For Teachers 10th - 12th
This lesson offers an introduction to Hooke's Law as well as stress-strain relationships. Students will first learn the governing equations. Then students will work through several example problems first individually, then as a class. In...
Online Course
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Psychology: Stress and Health

For Students 9th - 10th
Virtual learning unit on the theories of personality and the study of stress. Students will find a variety of engaging activities including a personality test, introvert/extrovert experiment, presentation, and video series in addition to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Kids Health: Health Problems Series: Stress [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The activities in this instructional activity unit can help students to learn more about what stress is and how to effectively manage it. After identifying stressors, they will keep a record of how they handled stressful situations that...
Website
Other

Sounds of English: Word Stress

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial practices pronunciation with emphasis on proper stress patterns. It can be copied for classroom use. Drawings help visualize how to pronounce certain sounds.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Stress That You Apply

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about contact stress and its applications in engineering. They are introduced to the concept of heavy loads, such as buildings, elephants, people and traffic, and learn how those heavy loads apply contact stress. Through...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: You Be the Radiologist!

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In addition to the associated lesson, this activity functions as a summative assessment for the Using Stress and Strain to Detect Cancer unit. In this activity, students will create a 1-D strain plot in Microsoft Excel depicting the...
Interactive
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Ven Conmigo! El Estres, Capitulo 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Spanish content; practice vocabulary and comprehension in this interactive matching exercise on the topic of stress.
Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Create Your Plan to Deal With Frustration

For Students 3rd - 5th
Follow the lead of Thinky Pinky on how to cope with frustrations. Complete the four-step plan with examples from Thinky Pinky to help you keep going when you want to give up!
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Kids: Arthur Family Health: Resilience

For Students 2nd - 4th
A learning experience that provides some resources, activities, and videos to help you and your child cope and build resilience after a tragedy or a disaster.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Presenting Painless Breast Cancer Detection!

For Teachers 10th - 12th
This lesson culminates the unit with the Go Public phase of the legacy cycle. In the associated activity, students must depict a tumor amidst healthy body tissue using a graph in Microsoft Excel. In addition, students will design a...
Lesson Plan
National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Serc: Modeling Glacier Dynamics With Flubber

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This hands-on activity describes glacier mass balance in a changing climate. Students make a glacier, construct a glacier valley, then run several tests with different values for valley slope, "flubber" temperature, and basal conditions...
PPT
Other

Metamorphic Rocks [Ppt]

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the different ways that metamorphic rocks can form. Looks at high temperature, high pressure, and chemically active fluids. Discusses structures created in metamorphic rocks by different forces and the classifications based on...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Mechanics of Elastic Solids

For Teachers 10th - 12th
After conducting the associated activity, students are introduced to the material behavior of elastic solids. Engineering stress and strain are defined and their importance in designing devices and systems is explained. How engineers...
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rock Cycle

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Through five lessons, students are introduced to all facets of the rock cycle. Topics include rock and mineral types, material stresses and weathering, geologic time and fossil formation, the Earth's crust and tectonic plates, and soil...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Preconditioning Balloons

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students use balloons (a polymer) to explore preconditioning a viscoelastic material behavior that is important to understand when designing biomedical devices. They improve their understanding of preconditioning by measuring the force...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Deformation: Nanocomposite Compression

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students learn about nanocomposites, compression and strain as they design and program robots that compress materials. Student groups conduct experiments to determine how many LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT motor rotations it takes to compress soft...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Applying Hooke's Law to Cancer Detection

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore Hooke's law while working in small groups at their lab benches. They collect displacement data for springs with unknown spring constants, k, by adding various masses of known weight. After exploring Hooke's law and...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Viscoelasticity

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students are introduced to the concept of viscoelasticity and some of the material behaviors of viscoelastic materials, including strain rate dependence, stress relaxation, creep, hysteresis and preconditioning. Viscoelastic material...
Interactive
University of Utah

University of Utah: Genetic Science Learning Center: Epigenetics

For Students 9th - 10th
Videos, interactive activities, and articles explaining the influences that cause parts of the genome to be turned on and off. Learn how nutrition, behavior, stress and other factors determine gene expression.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Nancy Etcoff on the Surprising Science of Happiness

For Students 9th - 10th
Cognitive researcher, Nancy Etcoff looks at our pursuit of happiness and its surprising effect on our bodies. [14:22]