This article provides tools and tips to teach children how to calm down and relax.

Students learn about stress, its causes, its warning signs and ways to reduce it. As providers and caretakers, adults tend to view the world of children as happy and carefree. After all, kids don't have jobs to keep or bills to pay, so what could they possibly have to worry about? Plenty! Even very young children have worries and feel stress to some degree.

This resource discusses stress and provides strategies to help students cope with stress.

Our ‘Local Read Aloud’ is a spin-off of The Global Read Aloud, created by Pernille Ripp.  The idea is that we select one book to read aloud to our students over a span of six weeks.  During our six weeks of reading we connect with other classrooms across the district and discuss, create, and connect with the book and our peers.  We can use a variety of tools to connect, and take as much, or as little time as we’d like.  The project is intended to be enjoyable and not stressful, and in my experience the students enjoy the read aloud component as much as the connections.

This article explains how to recognize stress and its symptoms in children. The article also offers ways to help children cope with stress.

This lesson plan includes discussion questions and activities that will help students deal with stress.

Students learn about the stress faced by kids. Compared with what adults face, it might seem like kids don't have that much to stress about. But kids have their own concerns ? and sometimes feel stress, just as adults do. And kids' stresses can be just as overwhelming, particularly if they don't have effective coping strategies.

Students learn about information to help understand anxiety including what makes it happen and what you can do when you have anxiety.