Stress Management 1: What is stress? - SEL Lesson

Use this ready-made SEL lesson focusing on the subskill of 'Stress Management' to help you with social emotional learning in the classroom.

This is lesson 1 in a series of 8 and it's designed for use as one of your SEL activities with the whole class, a small group, or one-to-one. Self-Management is one of the five components that make up CASEL's model of SEL education. To find other SEL activities, please visit our homepage and search through hundreds of SEL lessons created by educators and other experts in SEL education.

Our digital SEL lessons integrate with Pear Deck to facilitate student engagement. These lessons include interactive, age-appropriate social emotional learning activities, questions, videos, and animations for every CASEL subskill.

Giving your students the tools they need to effectively manage stress can transform your learning environment. These stress management strategies use SEL learning principles to help your students develop positive coping mechanisms for stressful situations and upsetting feelings, important for the challenges of everyday life but particularly useful when faced with assessments or life changes.