Topic: Stress Management,

Non-Fiction Book

Grade: Grade 3

What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Anxiety (What-to-Do Guides for kids) 

Author Dawn Huebner, Illustrator Bonnie Mattews  

Magination Press 2006 

Description: This book provides kids and parents/caregivers, information about what worries looks like. What to Do When You Worry Too Much, teaches many kinds of techniques and worksheets to help deal with these anxieties.  

This book provides specific ways that students might view worries and prompts them to work through and take charge of specific issues that they might have. 

Integration: We could integrate this with literacy, as well as the science with understanding about the prefrontal cortex and amygdala. 

 

Excerpts: 

                     

Core Integration: 

This can be broken into 2 lessons, One on Literacy, and one on science. 

Literacy: Students Journal 

Chapter One: Do you Grow Worries? 

1. Discuss with students how when we think of things every day over and over again we make these worries grow.  
2. Have students Draw and Write about worries that they have helped grow.
3. Have students draw and write about what they could say or do for themselves to help them feel less worried about this. 

Science Lesson:  

Areas of the brain are activated when we worry, and when calm ourselves. 

1. Have students identify which parts of the brain are activated when we worry. 
2. Have students label and color this part of the brain.
3. Have students identify which part of the brain is activated when we calm ourselves.
4. Have students label and color this part of the brain. 

•  Other resources for these lessons

Have No Fear, the Brain is Here! How Your Brain Responds to Stress  

Teaching Kids About the Brain 

Label the Brain Game 

 

• NHES 1 : Core Concepts– Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health. 

• HBO 2.  Engage in activities that are mentally and emotionally healthy 
• HBO 3. Prevent and manage interpersonal conflict in healthy ways 
• HBO 4. Prevent and manage emotional stress and anxiety in healthy ways 
• HBO 5.Use self-control and impulse strategies to promote health. 

 

• MEH 1.5.5 Describe appropriate ways to express and deal with emotions. 

Core Content Standards- Literacy and Science: 

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3
  Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. 
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2.A
  Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension. 
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3.B
  Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations. 

Next Generation Science Standards: Core Connection Curriculum:
4-LS1-1.  

Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. 

4-LS1-2. 

Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.  

• LS1.D: Information Processing 

Different sense receptors are specialized for particular kinds of information, which may be then processed by the animal’s brain. Animals are able to use their perceptions and memories to guide their actions.