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December is Stress Free Family Month. The holidays and the change to winter weather can often create stressful situations for all family members. Students will benefit from learning more about the different kinds of stress and how they can help manage stress in themselves and, hopefully, their family members.

Activity: Click the Subject headings option and then type stress in the Search box. You'll get a listing of the following subjects:

Cold stress (Biology)
Critical incident stress debriefing
Emotional stress
Heat stress (Biology)
Job stress
Mental stress
Physiological stress
Post-traumatic stress disorder in children
Stress (Physiology) in adolescence
Stress (Physiology) in children
Stress (Psychology)
Stress (Psychology) in adolescence
Stress (Psychology) in children
Stress disorder, Post-traumatic
Stress in adolescence
Stress in children
Stress management for children
Stress management for teenagers
Traumatic stress syndrome

Assign each student a different subject from this list. Each student should find two articles and summarize the most significant points for a two-minute oral presentation.

Oral presentations provide students with valuable experiences in developing standards-based essential skills and overall confidence in presenting their ideas to others. Oral reports can also help other students to learn more about the overall topic.

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