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🧠 Teach Kids About Their Brain’s Reactions!Help students understand what happens in their brains and bodies when they feel scared, angry, or overwhelmed! This Fight, Flight, Freeze resource is a perfect addition to your SEL lessons, calm corner, or counseling activities. Students will learn how their “Guard Dog” (amygdala) tries to protect them, how their “Wise Owl” (prefrontal cortex) helps them make smart choices, and how to recognize when their body is in fight, flight, or freeze mode.

Have students fill out this form as you begin your year long journey together! The intent is to focus on how students practice caring for themselves. When times get hard, you will have this paper to refer back to and help guide your students to their strategies and supports.

Why are our brains wired to always think about the negative? Just like adults, our students go home and replay moments in the day, usually the ones that felt hard. Support your student's by helping them shift their thinking. If something was awesome, celebrate! If something was mildly ok, celebrate!