Shark Survival Week

During finals relax with these virtual tips and tools to de-stress and unwind!

• Wordle- Have you Wordled yet today? From the New York Times, take a break and test your 5-letter word knowledge!
   
• Improve Memory strives to offer the best free browser games that are appropriate for both children and adults. Interactive games that are relaxing, fun, and stimulating.
   
• Jigsaw Planet- Millions of free jigsaw puzzles created by a large community. Create, play, share jigsaw puzzles and compete with other users.
   
• Playingcards.io is a digital take on some iconic board and card games. Now, you can play classics like Checkers, Go Fish, Crazy Eights, and more without having to shuffle the deck yourself!
   
• Skribbl.io is like online Pictionary – you have 80 seconds choose a word and visualize whatever you pick, and the faster someone guesses your drawing the more points they get!
   
• Tetris, created in 1984, has been reducing stress, promoting real-life geometry applications, and providing hours of fun for all ages. Try out the classic version in your browser for free!
   

Meditation can have numerous health benefits, "including reduction in stress, anxiety, depression, as well as improved memory and increased brain efficiency with sustained attention. Meditation is also known to induce physiological benefits such as lowering blood pressure, heart rate, epinephrine, metabolism, breathing pattern and increased melatonin."¹ There are many popular paid apps that can help with guided meditation, and some free resources linked below.

1. Ooi, S.L. and Pak, S.C. (2019). The landscape of current meditation research: An overview to the special issue on 'Health benefits of meditation'. OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine, 4(2) 1-8. doi:10.21926/obm.icm.1902033