Description
In this activity, teachers will induce mild stress in students
by announcing they are about to have a quiz that will be
a major part of their grade. Once students learn that this
is not true, they will describe their physical and mental
changes in response to this stress.
Relevant Standards
This activity fulfills science
and health education standards.
Objectives
Students will:
- Experience and describe a situation of short-term stress
- Record and analyze their physical and mental reactions
to the stressful situation
- Make generalizations about how humans react to short-term
stress, including that different people respond to stress
in different ways
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