The Big Test: How We Experience Short-Term Stress

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Health Education

Grade(s)

6

Overview

In this activity, teachers will induce mild stress in students by announcing they are about to have a pop quiz that will be a major part of their grade. Once students learn that this is not true, they will describe their physical and mental changes in response to this stress.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 6

HE19.6.1.1

Describe the interrelationship between social and emotional health in adolescence.

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Resource Provider

Other

License Type

BY-NC-ND

Resource Provider other

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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