Stress response
If you feel like you need to run away from danger, you are experiencing this response.
What is flight?
When feeling overwhelmed, you can use your lungs to help calm you down.
What is taking a deep breath?
This is the feeling you get when something exciting or good happens.
What is happiness?
This is the word for feeling sad and low.
What is depression?
This is the zone we aim to be in at school.
Bonus: True or false-it's bad when we are not in the green zone
What is the green zone?
Bonus: False
When your body becomes still and you feel "stuck" during a stressful situation, this is called the _______ response.
What is freeze?
A strategy for calming down that involves moving your body.
What is talking a walk, exercise, jumping jacks...etc?
You often feel this when you lose something important or experience disappointment.
What is sadness?
Name one physical sign of being nervous.
What are sweat, shaky hands, fast heartbeat
This Zone means you have extra energy but you're still in control.
What is the Yellow Zone?
This stress response makes you feel like you need to argue, defend, or physically react.
What is fight?
Writing about your thoughts and feelings in a notebook is a method of this coping skill.
What is journaling?
This strong emotion can make you want to shout or act impulsively when you feel something is unfair.
What is anger?
This is the ability to recognize your own feelings.
What is self awareness, emotional awareness?
Name a time when it’s normal to be in the Blue Zone.
What is after staying up late / when you're feeling down?
This lesser-known stress response involves people-pleasing to avoid conflict or danger.
What is fawn?
A strategy to calm down or to ground yourself when feeling anxious: Identifying things around you using your five senses.
What is mindfulness?
This emotion can cause your heart to race and make you want to avoid certain situations.
What is fear or anxiety?
True or False: You can feel more than one emotion at the same time.
What is true?
What’s a safe thing to do when you feel like you’re entering the Red Zone?
What is walk away / deep breathing / talk to a trusted adult?
Someone who jokes, distracts, or tries to make everyone happy when under pressure is likely using this survival response.
What is fawn?
A strategy for self regulation that involves thinking of things for which you are thankful.
What is gratitude?
A complex feeling that mixes regret, sadness, and sometimes embarrassment when you think you have hurt someone or broken a rule.
What is guilt?
Name two ways to tell if someone else is angry.
What are raised voice, body language? will take alternate wording or options
Name a time when being in the Yellow Zone might be helpful.
What is a performance, sports game, presentation, birthday party? etc... (alternate answers not listed here will be accepted)