Description
💛 Anxiety in Children Curriculum | 10-Week SEL Unit for Understanding Worries and Building Coping Strategies
Help your students better understand why they feel anxious, what worry feels like in their body, and—most importantly—what they can do about it.
This 10-lesson Anxiety in Children Curriculum is designed to explicitly teach K–5 students about anxiety and worries, using simple, developmentally appropriate language and engaging activities. Each lesson ends with a new coping strategy students add to their very own physical worry toolbox—so they walk away with practical tools they can use anytime big feelings show up.
Whether you’re working with a small group or your whole class, these lessons make it easy to support students who are struggling with worry, overwhelm, or anxious thoughts.
🧠 What This Curriculum Helps Students Do:
- Understand why anxiety/worries happen and what causes them
- Identify how anxiety feels in their body and brain
- Recognize common triggers and the size of different worries
- Learn what they can and can’t control
- Challenge unhelpful thoughts and replace them with calming strategies
- Build a personalized Worry Toolbox filled with calming techniques
- Know when and how to ask for help from trusted adults
🧰 Each Lesson Includes:
- Group norms + Feelings Check-In
- 2-Minute Warm-Up Game
- Explicit teaching with visuals
- Engaging activity to deepen understanding
- Coping Strategy of the Day (added to student toolbox!)
- Exit ticket or reflection prompt
📝 Lessons in the Unit:
- Normalizing Worries
- Anxiety and the Brain
- What Anxiety Feels Like
- Triggers & Size of Worries
- What I Can and Cannot Control
- Thoughts–Feelings–Behaviors Connection
- Challenging Worried Thoughts
- Support Networks at Home and School
- I Am Enough: Building Confidence
- Putting It All Together
✨ What’s Included (102 Pages + Digital Tools):
- 10 complete lessons with print + digital materials
- Worry Toolbox visuals + strategy printables
- Breathing techniques, grounding tools, and meditation scripts
- Self-assessments, emotion check-ins, and reflection sheets
- Gratitude journals, stress ball DIY, and calming strategies
- Yoga visuals, glitter jar recipe, and positive self-talk tools
- Parent letters, permission slips, and questionnaires
- Book list and extension ideas
- Digital formats for Google Slides and Seesaw
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