Stress Lessons

Stress Lessons is a free classroom resource — suitable for grades 4 to 6 — created by the Psychology Foundation of Canada in partnership with Pfizer Canada. The Psychology Foundation of Canada is a charitable organization that’s dedicated to helping Canadian families live emotionally-healthy, balanced lives, by providing awareness, expert validated education tools and promoting psychological-based learning and insight.

Stress Lessons will provide you with teaching strategies to enable learning. It can be a good classroom management tool. The lessons can become part of the continuous learning cycle and incorporated into interactions year round. Created in response to demand from Canadian teachers and other education professionals, Stress Lessons has been developed in collaboration with a range of experts including educators, counsellors, stress experts and psychologists. 

The goals of the Stress Lessons include: 

• Providing educators with a free, psychologically-sound, Canadian classroom resource that’s relevant to emotional health curriculum requirements 

• Helping teachers create an emotionally-healthy classroom environment by providing a series of activities that promote learning, discussion and self-awareness 

• Supporting teachers in fostering coping, stress management and problem solving skills