For Pre-Teens

Learn how your brain works and copes with challenges, plus skills to help you get over stress and upsets more easily.

For Parents & Educators

Parents and educators can use common coping problems to help pre-teens deal effectively with them.

Brain Works Project

Kids and adults can learn how the Brain Works Project helps pre-teens by building coping ability.

Using website information and activities at home and school

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What We ve Learned by Asking Pre-Teens:

How Are You Coping?

Scientists are learning more each year about how our brain reacts when we re stressed or upset. Now you can learn brain coping skills to bounce back more easily when you re down or angry.

Read What Pre-Teens Say

Find out what 4th, 5th, & 6th graders have learned from the Brain Works Project.

Get Started Learning About

Your Brain s Coping Functions

Lessons for learning how your brain rules the way you think, act and feel.

Coping Challenges

Learn about brain & behavior changes plus challenges during adolescence

Coping Skills

Tools

Learn how to deal with common coping challenges & get over your upsets

Meet Captain Neo

Your Brain Team

How parts of your coping brain work together and what goes wrong when they don”t.

Name that Upset Game

Practice coping skills using examples of upsets that commonly cause pre-teens stress.

Coping Skills for Kids E-News Read how a school counselor is using this site to get students to learn on their own

Resources and Activities

for Fun and Learning

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