Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens is a full-color, richly illustrated digital deck designed to help kids explore a variety of regulation tools and strategies to focus, calm, think, move, breathe, and connect. To be used in tandem with The Zones of Regulation – the curriculum book - the Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens deck provides

· New tools to add to your Zones of Regulation toolbox as explored in Chapter 4 of the published curriculum

· Sensory, action-oriented, cognitive, movement-based, and interpersonal/relational strategies and activities

· A visual teaching aid for use at school, at home, or in therapeutic and community settings

· Opportunities for self-reflection to build awareness of each tool’s impact

Each Tool to Try card has two parts, a graphic of the tool and an accompanying description. The card includes a reflection on the bottom of the description to allow tweens and teens to consider how the tool can be used to help them regulate their Zones.

How does this Tweens & Teens deck compare to the separate Tools to Try for Kids deck?

· 28 new tools are unique to just the tweens/teens deck (22 strategies appear in both decks).

· The tweens/teens deck offers an additional feature addressing the “why” for using each tool.

· Contains teen-appropriate, teen-friendly images, with an inclusive cast of characters.

This tool deck is a supplement to, not a replacement for, the in-depth curriculum and lessons in The Zones of Regulation book. For best teaching practice the strategy deck should be used in tandem with Chapter 4 lessons in The Zones of Regulation curriculum book. The cards are also useful tools when paired with other Zones-related products, such as Navigating The Zones board game and the Advanced Pack.