Stress reduction: Deep breathing techniques

What is anger, how is it caused, and how do we cope with it? Learners use this activity to individually assess how they deal with anger, as well as develop coping skills and discuss how to react in a positive way. 

Instill the importance of mindfulness with six breathing exercises. Scholars trace shapes using their fingers, following arrows that tell them when to breathe in and when to breathe out. Exercises increase by counts of breath in and out.

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 discover the warning signs of stress and explore how to use diet, exercise, relaxation techniques, and attitude to combat stress in their lives.

Students search for ways to prevent stress. They conduct self-assessments, plan a stress clinic, research community resources, and write a reflective essay. Students may wear electronic heart rate monitors to demonstrate stress levels.

Students examine the results of stress and identify positive techniques for coping with and reducing stress. They define emotional stress, compose a class acrostic for the word stress, complete the student activity sheet "Handling...

Students investigate the stressors in their lives and the effect those stressors have one their emotional health. They examine effective techniques for dealing with stress before creating a top ten list of the most useful ways to reduce...

Stressed out and tensed up! When stressed our bodies tense and our muscles clench. Teach youngsters how to calm down with simple deep pressure exercises. Press and release! 

Reduce the risk of health problems from using tobacco products with thirteen hands-on activities. Pupils learn about the risks of tobacco use experiences by making a tobacco jar, a stress ball, a collage, and more.

Students explore the various factors leading to anger, the health risks involved in anger, and the techniques people can use to cope with it. Through writing and performing scenarios that enact different causes and coping techniques of...