Working in groups of five students will develop a list of five situations that are stressful. To accomplish this teacher must approve subscribing to and then putting out a posting on Classroom Connect, and Kidsphere listservs. Students will return to classroom and develop a fact sheet with the information they obtained. Information from the listserv postings will take time to retrieve. A student or teacher needs to be assigned to check e-mail daily to print the messages.
Experiments Measure in class each student's blood pressure heart rate.
Understand how diet can effect stress within the physical system. Describe dietary changes as a way to reduce stress. Language Arts Activities Develop a survey that asks other students what causes stress for them and also asks them what they are doing, if anything, to reduce stress. This can be sent to other schools with a thank you for assistence in this project. Math Activities Students will collect and record data from survey.