---
title: Coping With Anxiety
description: Students will practice different coping mechanisms to help with anxiety.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/coping_with_anxiety-001.png
---

**Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)**

**Lesson Length: 15 - 20 mins**

**Topic: Anxiety and Composure**

**Grade Level: 4, 5**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [CASEL: SELF-MANAGEMENT](https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-is-the-casel-framework/#interactive-casel-wheel)

**Brief Description:**  Students will practice different coping mechanisms that can help with anxiety.

**Know Before You Start:** Students should have an understanding of how breathing and body breaks can help to reduce stress.

**Hook:**

- Discuss stress: 
    - When was the last time you felt anxious?
    - What did your body feel like? Tense? Light headed? Warm?
    - Did you clench your fists?
    - Did your breath start to get faster?
    - Did your heart beat faster? 
-  Practice different coping mechanisms for when you begin feeling anxiety.

**Activity:**

- Read and discuss the sample comic.
  
    - Have you ever used one of these strategies? Did it help? 
- If time allows, students can practice the strategies in the moment.
- Have students create a comic showing their personal coping strategies for anxiety.

**Closure:**

- Have students commit to practicing one or many of the anxiety coping strategies throughout the week.
- Revisit and reflect on how coping strategies helped after one week and ask what accommodations they will need to make to continue practicing the strategies.

**Differentiation:**

- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Print the sample comic for students to use as a reference when feeling anxiety.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.

**Resources:**

- Comic to print or display: [Comic](https://share.pixton.com/qbazlxd).
- Suggested Reading:
  
    - [Sometimes I'm Anxious](https://amzn.to/3Q3f0Lj) by Poppy O’Neil.

**Suggested Content:**

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