Kids’ Brains & Screens for Students is a research-based book designed to help middle and high school students understand how screen use impacts their brains, behavior, and well-being. Through engaging lessons, interactive activities, and real-world examples, students learn the science behind technology’s influence and are empowered to make healthier choices. This textbook makes it ideal for classrooms, schools, and group settings seeking a structured, evidence-based approach to digital wellness.
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Kids’ Brains & Screens for Students is an evidence-based curriculum designed to help middle and high school students understand the science behind screens and make healthier choices in a digitally saturated world. Combining engaging lessons with real-world context, this program equips young learners with the knowledge, tools, and motivation they need to think critically about technology’s impact on their brains, behavior, and well-being.
Eight colorful, structured lessons that introduce students to brain science, the effects of screens, and the reality of digital influences on mood, attention, and relationships.
Lesson plans, worksheets, activities, and quizzes to support deeper discussion and reinforce learning in classroom or group settings.
Bonus curriculum extras such as the 7-Day Challenge Screen Detox for Classroom, “Escape from Screen Jail” challenge, and Friday Fun Night instructions to make learning engaging and actionable.
Printable companion materials like scope & sequence guides, activity sheets, handouts, and anchor charts for educators and facilitators.
Designed with both prevention and empowerment in mind, this course helps students understand why screen habits matter and encourages them to build healthier, more balanced relationships with technology. This textbook makes it ideal for classrooms, schools, and group settings seeking a structured, evidence-based approach to digital wellness.
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Gigi Uy Bernadas –
Empowering Young Minds
“Kid’s Brains & Screens: A ScreenStrong Student Course” brilliantly addresses the impact of screen time on young minds, packaging its valuable lessons in an engaging, child-freindly format. With vibrant illustrations and a wealth of activities, the book captivates children’s attention, making learning about the potential harms of screens an enjoyable experience. It skillfully balances educational content with fun, suggesting numerous screen-free activities to encourage kids to explore the world beyond digital devices.
Parents will find this book particularly appealing for its practical approach to managing screen time, offering insights and tools to help children make informed choices about their digital consumption. The inclusion of worksheets and creative non-screen activities further enhances its appeal, providing familiies with resources to reduce screen dependence without diminishing fun.
In essence, “Kid’s Brains & Screens” is an essential resource for any parent aiming to nurture a healthy, balanced digital lifestyle for their children. It stands out as a meaningful investment in a child’s well-being, delivering a powerful message about the importance of moderation and the joys of life away from screens.
Mr. Smith –
Students will love this course, and will love you teaching it to them
Behind nearly every struggle our students face, there’s a screen somewhere. Every family has stories of conflict, distraction, school problems, mental health challenges, and a cloud of screen time hanging over all.
The Kids Brains & Screens Student Course is the help we’ve been waiting for! It is the most engaging, comprehensive, and practical curriculum to guide students and their families and teachers through today’s most challenging screen time issues.
What if your student didn’t have social media, video games, smartphones, or pornography dragging them down? Who could they become? How would your family or school improve?
This course shows the way: with all the science-backed research and the most incredible illustrations to teach us all how problematic screen use affects us, and what to do about it.
Steve Hicks –
Such a timely book in the “Alpha Kid” era
As we are now learning, a new generation is emerging known as “Alpha Kids” (born since 2012), a demographic known as the “IPad generation” because the minute they are able to sit up in their cribs, parents are literally shoving IPads in their faces. The implications of such “techno-parenting” are already being felt in our schools as students are increasingly unable to handle both the academic rigors presented as well as the necessary interpersonal interactions that characterize normal school-age development. This fresh, visually appealing and “meaty” course is needed to undo this “digital damage” already done to our children and to guide parents toward much healthier alternatives. A great, big, REAL, beautiful world is out there for our young people, a world brimming with potential for not only excellence in school but for REAL relationships and REAL life-experiences to occur–if, that is, we can reverse the calamitous, technology-addicted pathways many of your young people are traversing. Besides presenting the peer-reviewed scientific and medical support showing the extent of the problem, Melanie Hempe offers positive, engaging, practical, family-unifying alternatives to re-direct our young people into a much better way. Get out your credit card, buy this course, win back your kids, and do your part to reverse the course we are on that, sadly, is not good at all and will have far-reaching implications if not set right.
Rebecca Grant –
This experienced educator and mother of boys wholeheartedly recommends this course!
As an experienced educator and mother of boys, I wholeheartedly endorse the ScreenStrong Kids’ Brains and Screens student course. This comprehensive curriculum offers a complete package including a well-structured scope and sequence, detailed lesson plans, helpful anchor chart suggestions, engaging worksheets, informative quizzes, and an enjoyable culminating activity. Kids’ Brains and Screens serves as an essential cornerstone for any digital citizenship program, particularly for middle school students who need to grasp the impacts of excessive screen time on their developing brains.
The course presents complex concepts in a straightforward manner, supported by captivating illustrations that cater to diverse learning styles. Beyond understanding the neuroscience behind screen usage, students are also introduced to the persuasive design tactics employed by tech companies to keep kids online. Moreover, the course delves into the scientific evidence illustrating the various ways video games and social media can affect children’s physical, social, emotional, and mental well-being.
Armed with this knowledge, students and their families can establish healthier boundaries with technology. Personally, I’ve witnessed the positive effects of this course on my own sons. They regularly draw connections between what they’ve learned and their peers’ screen habits. They are far more receptive to this information coming from the course rather than from me, perhaps because I’m seen as the enforcer of screen limits at home. The inclusion of real-life stories from fellow teens and insights from experts sprinkled throughout the curriculum further enhances its credibility and impact.