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    Coping With Anxiety

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    Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)

    Lesson Length: 15 - 20 mins

    Topic: Anxiety and Composure

    Grade Level: 4, 5

    Standards / Framework:

    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.

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