This valuable resource is packed cover-to-cover with inviting, kid-friendly games, arts and crafts, science projects, environmental lessons, and more. Every activity comes with step-by-step directions and complete guidance for getting the most out of each lesson.

This innovative resource integrates counseling and guidance with classroom instruction. Many of the engaging, counselor-led activities also include suggestions for counselor/teacher collaboration. Designed to foster empathy as well as creative and critical thinking abilities, the book covers topics such as understanding others' feelings, communication skills, friendship, peer pressure, cooperation, bullying, safety, stress management, ethics, setting goals, self-esteem, problem solving, anger management, and test anxiety. Each activity of 30 to 60 minutes includes a statement of purpose,...

This timely book provides concrete and useful strategies to help students get in touch with the effects of stress in their lives, and more importantly, helps students learn what they can do about it. Stress has an enormous impact on the ability of students to learn. The body's defense system is built for short-term physical stressors, not long-term psychological and emotional stress, which can lead to health problems, memory loss, severe learning difficulties, and angry outbursts. Less Stress = More Success includes meaningful activities and impactful student "experience sheets" designed to...

This timely book provides concrete and useful strategies to help children get in touch with the effects of stress in their lives, and more importantly, helps them learn what they can do about it. Stress has an enormous impact on the ability of children to learn and be happy. The body's defense system is built for short-term physical stressors, not long-term psychological and emotional stress, which can lead to health problems, memory loss, severe learning difficulties, and angry outbursts. Less Student Stress = More Success includes meaningful activities and impactful "experience sheets"...

This straightforward, delightfully illustrated, fully reproducible book gets teens to stop, focus, and consider issues valuable to their growth and life success. Each topic is presented as a group of engaging, individual worksheets, which can also easily be used as the basis for discussion and group work.

Teach important social and emotional skills with this powerful emotional intelligence curriculum. By involving you students in these engaging activities, they learn how to: constructively express themselves and control their behavior think through the consequences of their actions learn how to take the perspectives of others and to develop empathy accept responsibility for their decisions develop skills for positively managing conflict, anger, and stress The instructional strategies are appropriate for classroom or counseling groups and include a variety of meaningful large- and small-group...