Monday 4/27 Agenda

Learning Goal (write it down on lined paper for exit ticket): Stress- what it is, what causes it, how the body reacts to it, why it can be harmful and beneficial, and how it can be relieved. 

1. Watch Brainpop Stress

2. Read Background Information: Stress is the effect that any situation or event has on the body and mind. Stress is change that must be adjusted to. Stressful events include injury, illness, or the death of a loved one. These are negative events, but stressful events can also be those things that are positive, such as graduating from high school, getting a new job, or moving to a new home. Sources of stress can come from the environment or the body. 

Stressors from the environment include: weather, noise, crowding, interpersonal demands (i.e. peer pressure, family issues or changes), time pressures, performance standards and threats to security and self-esteem. Stresses from the body include the rapid growth of adolescence, illness, accidents, poor diet, and sleep disturbances. There are two types of stress: eustress, which is “good” stress and distress, or “bad” stress. 

Eustress is stress that produces a positive effect. For example, before a sports event, such as a race, athletes often get nervous. This stress helps the athlete perform to the best of his or her ability. A second example of eustress is threatened safety. A person who is being chased by someone or something threatening their safety feels stress. This stress is positive because the person threatened is able to run and fight better than they would without the stress. Distress is the stress one feels because of relationships, life demands, etc. It is unproductive.

-Melissa Buege TED Lesson

2. Does Stress Causes Pimples?

3. Stress Padlet This is shared only with Ms. Lopez

• What are the situations that cause me stress?
• What do I feel like (physically and emotionally) when these things happen?
• What do I do when these things happen?

4. Healthy ways to reduce stress

 Think, Pair, Share:

• Have you ever laughed really, really, hard so that tears came into your eyes?

What are things that you do to help you when you are stressed?
1. Music
2. Conscious breathing
3. Visualization
4. Tensing/relaxing of muscles
5. Journaling
6. Talking to a friend or adult that you trust
7. Creative expression (draw, play music, dance.........)
8. Exercise

5. Exit Ticket

• (on lined paper) In complete sentences, explain at least two things you learned about stress that relate to the learning goal.