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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Coping With Stress
Learn about common sources of stress and how you can find healthy ways to respond to them. Also includes contact information for reaching out to professionals who can help with the coping process. PDFs require Adobe Reader.
History of American Wars
History of American Wars: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
A discussion of the history of post-traumatic stress disorder in the military.
Other
Job Stress Network
The Center for Social Epidemiology offers study results, upcoming conference information, and other resources related to stress and methods of coping with it, especially in the work place.
NBC
Nbc Learn: Stress Less: Calming Strategies
Have you ever felt stressed, angry or frustrated? Have you had a hard time managing those emotions? Chances are, you have and so have your children. In this video produced by the Parent Toolkit, you'll find strategies to help you and...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Studying for Tests
Poor grades, a lack of confidence, and test taking anxiety can all result from an inability to study effectively. Look through this site to learn how to be a more productive student, settle down to study, and ease the terrors associated...
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Activity Logs: Finding Out How You Really Spend Your Time
Learn to manage your time more wisely by using an activity log. This article explains the benefits of keeping a log and provides a template to begin one.
Other
Steve Pavlina: Triple Your Personal Productivity
Web site in which author Steve Pavlina provides 5 steps for tripling personal productivity through time management. Articles in site are based on Pavlina's book Personal Development for Smart People.
Other
Word Processing Activity: Rsi Checklist
This personal site provides a student activity that allows learners the opportunity to practice computer skills in creating a bulleted list. The activity also involves student's in completing research on repetitive stress injury to...
Mental Health America
Mental Health America: Suicide
Resource offers facts and statistics about suicide.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Do String Players Have Longer Left Fingers?
Physical activity is needed for maintaining normal bone strength and mass. But whether physical stress on finger bones during development leads to an increase in finger length, is something you will discover in this project not by...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Big Mo
Momentum is not only a physical principle; it is a psychological phenomenon. Students learn how the "Big Mo" of the bandwagon effect contributes to the development of fads and manias, and how modern technology and mass media accelerate...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Strong as the Weakest Link
To introduce the two types of stress that materials undergo - compression and tension - young scholars examine compressive and tensile forces and learn about bridges and skyscrapers. They construct their own building structure using...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: You Are There, First Flight
Students learn about archives and primary sources as they research original historical documents. While preparing an imaginative first-person account as if witnessing an historical event, they learn to appreciate the value of the...
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Precipitation: Drought in Eastern Africa
Article discussing the occurrence of drought in Eastern Africa, and how it is likely to increase in frequency in future years due to global warming, putting enormous stress on countries such as Kenya and Ethiopia. (Updated July 12, 2012)