Grade 6 Mental Health

1. During the stress response, your body undergoes a series of physical changes. This is known as what response?

• Hide-and-Seek Response

• Fly-or-Sit Response

• Positive-or-Negative Response

• Fight-or-Flight Response

2. What hormone is released when a person begins to feel stress?

• Adrenaline

• Scared

• Nervous

• Anxiety

3. Select 3 physical changes that occur to your body when effected by adrenaline when you feel stressed. (Select 3)

• You are able to smell things better

• You sweat more

• Lose sense of hearing

• Breathing deepens and speed up

• Muscles tighten and become ready for action

4. Select 3 healthy strategies to manage stress. (Remember, what might help you manage stress might not work for someone else.) (Select 3)

• Talk to a family member, friend, or trusted adult.

• Make a list of things you want to accomplish.

• Increase physical activity.

• Yell at Luke because he got you out in 4 square and it is his fault.

5. ________________ is the ability to work through and recover from disappointment/failure. 

• Adrenaline

• Stress

• Resilience

• Empathy

6. The video we watched on the Thailand soccer team overcoming several difficulties was to show what character trait?

• Muscular Strength

• Resilience

• Stress

• Giving Up

7. Demonstrating ______________ means treating others the way you want to be treated regardless of background, what they look like, or any other factor.

• Respect

• Responsibility

• Trust

• Forgiveness

8. Jason scored the game winning goal in his soccer game over the weekend. He was so excited, and all of his teammates and coaches congratulated and praised him. When he went over to his family his older sister, Cassidy, was able to relate and share the emotion Jason is currently feeling. She told him about the time she scored the game winning goal for her field hockey team last month. What term best describes Cassidy's actions?

• Resilience

• Adrenaline

• Empathy

• Poor Sportsmanship

9. Natalie tried out for one of the lead parts in the school play. Natalie was disappointed when she found out she didn't get the part. Natalie decided to quit the arts and drama club because she figured she would never be good at it. What term is Natalie not showing?

• Respect

• Resilience

• Stress

• Fairness

11. Which option best describes being a good "Ryerson Community" citizen?

• Using a many plastic bottles as possible

• Saying mean and hurtful things to others because they "Did it to you".

• Talk back to the teachers because you don't agree with them.

• Asking people at your lunch table to throw away their garbage instead of brushing it on the floor.