The Red Zone is used to describe extremely high energy and intense feelings. A person may be experiencing stress, frustration, anxiety, excitement, silliness, the wiggles, or nervousness when in the Yellow Zone. The Yellow Zone is used to describe when our energy is higher and emotions get a little bigger however, a person has more control when in the Yellow Zone. This is the Zone where optimal learning occurs. A person may be described as happy, focused, content, or ready to learn when in the Green Zone. The Green Zone is used to describe when we feel calm and in control.
The Blue Zone is used to describe low levels of energy and down feelings, such as when a person feels sad, tired, sick, or bored. To make this easy to talk and think about, we can categorize them into four simple, colored categories that we call Zones of Regulation. What are The Zones of Regulation?įeelings come in different sizes, intensity, and levels of energy. Reproducible R (page 112) from The Zones of Regulation curriculum helps track and monitor how the different tools affect them. When exploring each tool, allow time for adolescents to first practice, then reflect on which Zone or Zones the tool might help to regulate. In addition, the cards can be photocopied and sent home with adolescent to practice with caregivers or on their own card decks can be used specifically within the home environment, as well.
This multi-sensory teaching tool supports and encourages tweens and teens to reflect on which tools they find helpful as they are learning to regulate their Zones in real time, as well as provides ideas for tools to use when playing the Navigating The Zones game. This learning tool can be used in multiple ways: explored tool by tool with a whole classroom of students, used as a therapy aid in a smaller setting, for family members and caregivers to explore with their adolescent, or for the tweens and teens to pick up and practice on their own.
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How to use the Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens DO IT Task and goal-oriented tools involve taking action.ĭO IT Task and goal-oriented tools involve taking action.ĬONNECT Co-regulation tools encourage empathy, thinking of others, and accessing relationships for support. THINK IT These tools provide thought-based strategies to help us self-regulate. MOVE IT These tools integrate physical activity to impact self-regulation and reduce anxiety. The strategy cards are divided into five color-coded categories to show how the tools work in different ways to help social emotional learners self-regulate feelings and emotions:įEEL IT These tools use our senses to support self-regulation and modulation.
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Housed in a sturdy two-piece cardboard box, the portable card deck includes 4”x 6” strategy cards (50) and information and instruction cards (7) for the interventionist. What’s in the Tools to Try for Tweens & Teens strategy deck Also featured specifically for tweens and teens is the “Why to Try?” section on the card that explains the purpose and benefit of the strategy, as well as a metacognitive self-reflection area for adolescents to consider how the strategy works for them to regulate their Zones.įor best teaching practice, the card deck should be used in tandem with lessons from Chapter 4 in The Zones of Regulation curriculum book where tools are explored, as well as paired with other related Zones products, such as Navigating The Zones, and its supplemental Advanced Pack to extend play. Expanding upon 22 strategies carried over from the Tools to Try Cards for Kids deck, they are now presented differently with language, level of maturity, and illustrations to engage the tween and teen user, along with 28 new, accessible, and subtle strategies. The versatile, easy-to-follow cards are illustrated with lots of teen appeal-diverse and relatable tween-teen characters on oversize 4”x 6” cards with a large, readable, teen-friendly font.
Expanded from the book, The Zones of Regulation (Kuypers, 2011), Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens provides 50 practical, easy-to-use tools and strategies to help adolescents at the developmental ages 11-18+ explore, practice, and choose tools to help them self-regulate at home, in school, or in therapeutic and community settings. Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens is a visually rich card deck designed to help adolescents explore a variety of self-regulation tools and strategies.
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