Emotion, Stress, and Health

Positives

• This resource provides a table of contents below the video to help locate information within the video. 
• The video includes an entertaining narrator and engaging graphics that aid in comprehension. 

Additional Prerequisites

• It may help to gauge students' experiences with topics related to emotions and mental health prior to viewing the video. 
• Younger students may benefit from having the video paused periodically to help them keep up with the fast-paced presentation of information. 

Differentiation

• Provide students with a graphic organizer that reinforces vocabulary meanings. 
• Put students into groups and have them make a chart showing the ways that emotions can be both beneficial and detrimental to our health.
• Biology, anatomy, physiology, or psychology classes could use this video to introduce the topic of climate anxiety and depression.
  
• Consider having students engage in this outdoor journaling activity that encourages time in nature as an important mental health treatment. 
• Teachers could also use this video to help students unpack their feelings specifically about climate anxiety. 
• Have students watch this video about how green spaces can improve your overall health to come up with a project that the entire class can participate in to add another green space at your school.