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Different tools work for different people, and different zones are best for different situations.  Below are resources to help convey and include this with your class or child.

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Below are videos, tips, and worksheets for introducing the Zones to your child or class, or yourself.
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Generalization is the best way to help learn a concept!

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Generalization is the best way to help learn a concept!

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Having inconsistent language to refer to emotions and their management can be confusing to a student. Try to use the language used in the ZOR program to help generalize.

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We spoke to teachers and consulted the Zones of Regulation materials to find out what helps Zones be useful in the classroom. Here is what we found!

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Interoception is our ability to understand feel what goes on in our body. Hunger, thirst, sadness, and nervousness all may feel different to each of us, but recognizing those feelings helps us respond to them appropriately.

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This can be done by selecting or writing up comprehension passages that include a few zone emotions or maybe all of them! While reading and discussing the passage, the emotions and their corresponding zones can be discussed. If tools have been covered in your class, the students may come up with ways the characters can use tools to regulate their emotions :)

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Checking with students throughout their day, for example at the beginning and end, can help to make Zones part of your class or child's routine. This will help remind them to check in with their bodies, and be more conscious of what they need.

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Learning the zones doesn't need to be all lesson plans. Incorporating activities like this as regular breaks or fun for your students can help the zones be a normal part of their day.

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These optional ideas for rewarding students for their tool use may be a good fit for your classroom or child.

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Self talk is an important part of how we engage in activities, and how we manage our emotions.

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Some behaviours that are perfectly expected in one situation may be very unexpected in another. Expressing this is very important for making sure students know that there are no bad zones, but that the way we act in a situation may be okay sometimes, and not others.

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Understanding others' points of view can be very challenging for our students, but is a valuable skill for understanding how their actions in a zone may impact others, and vice versa.

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Below are some sample tools such as breathing techniques and videos that can help change or maintain a desired zone.

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An activity that teaches kids to figure out the “expected” and “unexpected” behaviors in different contexts in their day.

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Social Thinking: “Expected & Unexpected” Behaviors in Social Situations

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Links to many Youtube Videos explaining tools for certain zones, or that can be used as tools.

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Helping students to recognize the things that cause them to change zones can help give them the tools to deal with those things.

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Understanding what acts as a trigger for individual students and for them to understand their peers

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This can be used as a follow-up where the students have a shield made up of all the tools that help them in different situations. This can be a useful tool for the teachers and peers in the classroom

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Visual tool to discuss triggers, and help students recognize what things put them in Yellow and Red.

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A check-in and quiz covering expected and unexpected behaviours

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Taking time to consider the size of a problem are excellent tools to regulate our zones.

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A sequel to the unexpected and expected lesson, tying in perspective-taking.

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This can be used as a starter to ensure students are using tools that will help the state they are in and to transition to the green zone.

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This can be printed and used for the class or with student (s) to brainstorm wat can be done in a moment of crisis/conflict.

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Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=gRWIjZZMKSQ&fbclid=IwAR0qpAvlhsZIT5ngXhfaF5yi1nh2uqcv0zqSdDIjLiLfdrdGS05d4ArMwTY

Day 2:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RSFbDDiS_YA&t=1s&fbclid=IwAR03pmxttLGYtEsmhBOq-3k5F15MspdL7YtPX6ywbgmLLGu0tlk7xEUo1Gw

Day 3:

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Come SelfRegulate With Me-GROUND-Day 3 of 10-day self-regulating challenge using a yoga pose

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A variety of jeopardy formats for e.g., what zone am I in?, size of the problem, calming strategies that can be used as a review

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Find Jeopardy Games About Zones of regulation

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JeopardyLabs has over 10000 games on Zones of regulation

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Teacher's kit: Interoception (Short version)

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Teacher's kit: Interoception (Short version)

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These activities were picked from the handbook and other resources to provide a quick beginner's guide that can be used in the classroom

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This PDF is a toolkit made by the Government of Australia on using the beginning levels of Interoception in classrooms. There are activities and also a list of strategies on including the language within the classroom.

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This video can be used as resource for teacher's as well as parents to understand what the concept consists of. They can then watch this in class with the students and discuss the concept.

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Inner Coach & Inner Critic - Summary and Example

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Inner Coach & Inner Critic - Summary and Example

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A video providing a full lesson on inner voices and self talk.

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Can be used for each child on their tables as moods and emotions fluctuate through the day. this could help the students pick tools and help the teachers identify how they need to approach the student

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Perspective and the Zones - Sample Lesson

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Perspective and the Zones - Sample Lesson

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Activities to Work on Perspective Taking

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Activities to Work on Perspective Taking

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Part 1: Games and Activities to work on Perspective Taking

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The Tale of Two Beasts | An Adorable Story About Different Perspectives

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This brief activity is a simple demonstration of how things can look different, depending on where and who you are.

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Classroom Printout

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Note - this sheet was prepared by a different school, but includes a fantastic summary of the topics covered and their significance to students.

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Sample Situations Expected and Unexpected

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Expected and Unexpected - Making Choices

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Expected and Unexpected - Making Choices

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Higher proficiency review of expected and unexpected.

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Nissenbaum, Lynn NES Teacher - Special Education PSYCH

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Review, explaining checking in, and providing an example.

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Zones of Regulation Check-In Slide Video

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Videos exploring different situations to provide examples of the expected behaviour.

Classroom Manners

Playground Manners

Good Sport Gator

Table Manners

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Classroom and school-based examples of situations, with built-in pauses for discussion with your child or classroom.

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This video includes a great example of a session introducing tools.

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Nissenbaum, Lynn NES Teacher - Special Education PSYCH

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Sample situations to discuss with your class or child to put the zones into action.

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This video and accompanying book includes great activities to share with your class or your child, to help them listen to their body's messages.

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There are many books that explore the size of the problem and help children see ways to approach their problems. Here is one example:

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"I CAN HANDLE IT!" 👍DEPRESSION & ANXIETY BOOK FOR KIDS - Kids Stories Read Aloud | Fun Stories Play

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What do the Zones of Regulation Look like?

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The Zones program suggests giving a "Tool Award" each time a student opts to use a tool to help regulate themselves. If this is something that would integrate well in your home or classroom, a sample Award is provided.

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This is a set of scenarios in which the students can identify the zones that the scenario would make them feel and which tool from the class toolbox would they use for themselves

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For true Zones Pros - students who finish their Zones program and achieve a certain # of Zones Awards or Zones Specific Peaks Points could be rewarded with a Zones Licence in recognition of their hard work.

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Phrases we say that may help students' understanding, e.g. "Ants in my pants!"=Yellow zone

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Take pictures of each student acting out each zone, to be pasted in the worksheet.

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Could be used within lessons, hung in class, or cut out for activities such as building individual student "toolboxes".

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With assistance, students can identify what helps them when they are in each zone, and write it on their sheet. This can be referred to in moments where they need a regulation tool.

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Can be used as a worksheet and as an in-the-moment regulation tool.

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For visual learners especially, this model can be used with cut-outs from the Zones Tools Menu to organize tools for each zone.

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Worksheet helpful to discuss using tools pre-emptively - a calming tool early in the yellow zone can help avoid the red zone altogether!

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Can be used as a worksheet, or on a Smartboard with student names, feeling words, and zone colours, for students to use one-by-one to check in.

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Helping students compare problems and make conclusions on what problems deserve a big response, and what can be moved on from quickly.

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This advanced worksheet asks students to think about how the actions they do in a zone might be understood by those around them, and how they make others feel.

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This document could be sent home to parents to help them understand the curriculum and envision ways it may be helpful to use at home, too.

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A short video to help kids at home put together their own Zones of Regulation Check-In for families.

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Zones of Regulation: Activity Check-in at Home via Social Thinking

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Easy ways you can implement Size of the Problem in your own home.

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Social Thinking: Size of Problem at Home

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This PDF is a helpful tool to keep track of all of the Zones language, and use it in our daily speech.

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Visual guide for deep breathing - a yellow or red zone tool!

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Once the concepts of zones are understood, you can move to looking at how zones fit with different situations. This is a great way to show that different zones are expected at different times!

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Stories are a fun and engaging way to help students understand the zones better. This provides them a context of the situation and also ends at the regulation station where the characters are able to manage their emotions

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Students can try this on their own sheet, and hanging one in their calming corner or on a bulletin board can help you point your students back to this technique.