Kids Have Stress Too! (Psychology Foundation of Canada) 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 for students in grades 1-3 and grades 4-6.

The grades 1-3 program provides 16 activities, while the grades 4-6 includes 7 activities. Each include: 

•    Step-by-step lesson plans,
•    Tips and activity sheets
•    A letter for parents
•    Links to where to find more information relevant to teachers, caregivers and others working with children

Why we’re recommending this resource

• Accuracy of information: well-researched, appropriately cited, and well written/ organized
• Authority: author is identifiable and has related qualifications and/or credentials / affiliated with a reputable institution
• Objectivity: minimal to no biases or affiliations with a company selling products of promoting a questionable agenda
• Currency: information that is recent or has been recently endorsed
• Canadian resource