Identifying Stressors
This worksheet helps 6th-grade students understand and identify common stressors in their lives and recognize how stress can affect them.
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Identifying Stressors
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will help you learn about different kinds of stressors and how they can affect you.
1. What is a stressor?
Something that makes you happy
Anything that causes stress or worry
A type of exercise
A healthy food
2. Which of the following is NOT a common sign of stress?
Feeling tired or having trouble sleeping
Having a lot of energy and feeling excited
Headaches or stomach aches
Feeling irritable or easily annoyed
Complete the sentences using words from the word bank below.
3. Getting ready for big at school can be a major stressor for many students.
4. Disagreements with or siblings can sometimes cause stress at home.
5. Problems with or fitting in can be a source of stress for young people.
6. Big life , like moving to a new town or school, can be very stressful.
7. Think about your own life. What is one thing that causes you stress?
8. Describe how this stressor makes you feel (e.g., worried, nervous, angry, tired).
9. All stress is bad for you.
True
False
10. It is important to talk to a trusted adult when you are feeling stressed.
True
False