The evidence-based lesson plans, Kids Have Stress Too! ® and
Stress Lessons ® can be integrated into classrooms from kindergarten up to Grade 12, with curriculum content from the Ontario Health & Physical Education Curriculum in
Strand A: Social-Emotional Learning Skills and Strand D: Healthy Living as it relates to Mental Health Literacy. Students develop effective ways of coping with and dealing with stress. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity (EDI) supplementary modules are offered with each of the Strong Mind Strong Kids
Program Guidebooks to help implement our stress management programs from an EDI lens.
Kids Have Stress Too! ® for Preschool to Grade 6:
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Kids Have Stress Too! ® Preschool, Kindergarten: Provides a comprehensive introduction to key aspects of early childhood and brain development, as well as the crucial role caregivers and educators play in helping children learn effective stress-management strategies. Designed to meet the needs of early
childhood educators and kindergarten teachers.
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Kids Have Stress Too! ® Tools and Activities for Grades 1 to 3: Provides educators with strategies to help create an emotionally-healthy environment in their classroom by promoting self-regulation and effective stress-management skills and strategies.
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Kids Have Stress Too! ® for Grades 4 to 6: Provides educators with practical, developmentally appropriate, engaging activities for students aged 9 to 12. This is a resource designed to help you teach children how to manage stress today, and for the rest of their lives.
Stress Lessons® for Grade 7 to Grade 12:
- Stress Lessons® From Stress Out to Chilled Out for Grades 7 to 9: Provides educators with a student-centred approach to teach stress-management strategies and skills and build emotional resiliency in their students and themselves.
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Stress Lessons®: Tools for Resilience for Grades 9 to 12: Provides educators with engaging strategies and tools to help teens develop resilience and positive coping skills.
School Health Public Health Nurses can support educators build their capacity to deliver this mental health curriculum that, in turn, will support students to learn to manage stress and become more resilient.
For more detailed information, including Ontario-based curriculum connections, learning outcomes, teaching and learning activities, visit the links below from Strong Minds Strong Kids: Psychology Canada:
Kids Have Stress Too!® Curriculum Connections
Stress Lessons® Curriculum Connections