Feelings Thermometer
Coping Skills
Self-Care
IRL Scenarios
BONUS
100

This color in the feelings thermometer usually represents feeling calm, relaxed, safe, and in control.

What is GREEN?

100

Taking five deep breaths is an example of this.

What is a coping skill?

100

What are some examples of self-care activities?

Possible Answers

  • Sleep
  • Drinking water
  • Exercise
  • Going to church
  • Meditation
100

Someone accidentally bumps into you in the hallway.

How do you respond? 

Possible answers:

  • Stay calm
  • Check if it was an accident
  • Use respectful words 
100

What are some healthy coping skills you plan to use when summer school is over? 

Possible Answers

  • Spend time with my family
  • Travel somewhere
  • Get more sleep
  • Eat my favorite snacks
200

At this level you may feel frustrated, annoyed, or worried, but you're still able to think clearly.

What is YELLOW?

200

You notice your friend is having a difficult day, what are 3 healthy coping skills you would suggest for them to try?

Possible Answers

  • Deep breathing
  • Exercising
  • Getting enough sleep
  • Drinking water
  • Going for a walk
200

Self-care is ___ responsibility. 

 "MY"

You are responsible for taking care of your mental health. 

200

A classmate disagrees with your idea during group work.

What's a good way to handle this situation?

Possible answers

  • Stay calm, take a deep breath
  • Actively listen
  • Stay respectful
  • Compromise
  • Use an I-statement
200

Who are trusted adults in your school you can go to if you ever needed help?

Possible Answers

  • Teacher
  • Counselor
  • PSW
  • Principal
  • Campus Aide
  • Psychologist
300

When you're in the red zone, your brain has a harder time doing this.

What is making good decisions?

What is thinking clearly?

300

True or False:

Yelling usually helps solve problems. Why or why not?

Possible Answers

  • False, yelling makes it harder for people to listen to each other
  • False, it can make situations worse
  • False, it can lead to a fight
300

Why is taking care of ourselves important?

Possible Answers

  • Self-care helps you avoid getting to that point of giving up
  • Self-care helps reduce stress.
  • Taking care of yourself means keeping your stress from taking over so you can function at 100%
  • Self-care helps you re-focus and improve concentration
  • Self-care minimizes frustration and anger, increase happiness, improve energy, etc.
  • Self-care helps you have healthy relationships with others
300

You forgot your homework and your teacher is upset.

Which thermometer zone should you try to stay in? Why?

What is Green or Yellow?

If I get to Orange or Red, the teacher might get more upset and I could get in trouble.

300

Who are trusted adults in your community you can go to if you ever needed help?

Possible Answers

  • Mom
  • Dad
  • Grandma
  • Tia/Tio
  • Adult Cousin
400

Name two body sensations (clues) that tell you you're moving toward the red zone.

Possible answers:

  • Heart racing
  • Sweaty hands
  • Tight muscles
  • Fast breathing
  • Clenched fists
400

If you had to explain to a friend, what a coping skills is, how would you say it in your own words?

Possible Answers

  • Activities you do to calm yourself down
  • Strategies to help you relax
  • Skills you use to keep you in the green
400

Give an example of someone in your life that practices good self-care

Possible Answers

  • My mom, she gets her nails done every two weeks
  • My sister, she goes hiking every weekend
  • My brother, he goes to the gym 3-4 times a week
  • My dad, he likes to go bike riding every day
400

Your friend wants you to break a school rule.

What feeling thermometer zone are you in and how do you handle this situation?

Possible Answers

  • Green, be honest and say no because you don't want to get in trouble
  • Yellow, make up an excuse or reason to leave and say you have to go
  • Green, laugh it off and say "yeah, right. i don't do that. bye!"
400

What are some places that make you feel better and make you feel safe? 

(It can be a physical location, an imaginary happy place, or in the presence of safe people)

Possible Answers

  • Going to the beach
  • My room
  • My cousin’s house
  • My backyard
  • When I think about the sunset
500

Why is noticing you're in the yellow/orange zone important?

Possible Answers

-It gives you time to use coping skills

-It helps you recognize and respond to your emotions before they become explosive

-It helps prevent conflicts

500

If our coping skills stop working for us and we are constantly struggling with our emotions, we can do this.

Possible Answers

  • Ask for help from an adult at home
  • Ask for help to a teacher, counselor, or PSW
  • Consider therapy as a support

 

500

What is one NEW self-care activity you want to try? Why?

Possible Answers

  • Learn how to skateboard
  • Learn a new instrument
  • I want to drink more water
  • I want to eat more vegetables
500

Your sibling takes something without asking.

What zone are you in the feelings thermometer?

Possible Answers

  • Yellow: I am annoyed
  • Orange: I am frustrated and upset
  • Red: Angry, they do this all the time. I want to hit them.
500

What is mental health?

Possible Answers

  • Taking care of your mind
  • How you take care of your mind
  • How you think, feel and behave with others
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