Benefits of Physical Activity

Two lessons take a close look at stress. In lesson one, scholars identify common stressors and examine stress management strategies. Lesson two challenges pupils to keep a stress log for four weeks to aid in their personal journey of...

As a more personal part of a unit on brain chemistry, your class discusses stressful situations and the body's response to them. They talk about how, while the reactions are initially helpful, some can be harmful to your health. Finally,...

Provide tweens and teens with information they need to know about stress with an article that details how stress affects various organs in the body. The article also offers tips for healthy ways to cope with stress.

Young scholars identify the different causes of stress. In this health science lesson plan, students find the connection between stress and drug abuse. They discuss about the different kinds of stress they experience everyday.

Reframe your thinking about stress! The narrator of a short video suggests viewers consider stress responses as normal and natural. With this new mindset, people can then choose how to respond to stress and develop techniques for how to...

Need motivation to alter your life style? This video on the affects of stress will serve as a wake-up call and get you moving.

Motivate your class members (and yourself) to manage stress with this short video that explores what happens to the brain when it is exposed to continual stress.

Students explore the physical and psychological effect of stress and tension on human beings. Concepts of stress and stress management are introduced. Students discover how perception serves to fuel a huge industry dedicated to...

A simple chart can help your class heighten self-awareness by identifying the ways they experience stress -- physically, emotionally, and behaviorally. They also determine actions they can take to reduce stress in their lives.

Students fill out a stress questionnaire. Students assess their stress levels over the last 12 months. Students explain how it occurs and ways to dealing with it on a spreadsheet.