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What Lies Beyond Talent? Mindset And Neuroplasticity
Individuals' views of their learning processes largely affect how they learn. An engaging activity provides your classes with tools to analyze their own views of learning. Using an online game, they explore the concepts related to a...
Overcoming Obstacles
Having a Positive Attitude
An activity about a positive attitude sheds light on the importance of a growth mindset. Scholars define and discuss it to brainstorm a list of positive phrases that contribute to a growth mindset. Peers share positive statements about...
Lions Clubs International Foundation
Mindful Self-Management Exercise: Self-Motivation
An activity stresses the importance of self-motivation by encouraging scholars not to give up and keep trying. When learners feel frustrated, they turn a two-part sentence into a motivational mantra.
Amani Project
Write a CoronaKindness Song
And the beat goes on! Finding a way to connect during the isolation imposed by the Coronavirus pandemic can be challenging. This activity from the Amani Project offers a way to stay close during a time of physical distancing....
Amani Project
Make an Instrument
Create a little harmony with Amani Project! Young musicians create their instruments using found or recycled objects. As an introduction, class members first experiment with sounds they can make with their bodies (clapping, stomping...
Teachers Pay Teachers
Multiple Intelligence Survey for Kids
Scholars rate 24 statements 0-5 then calculate their responses to discover their preferred intelligence and which intelligences require more practice.
Health Smart Virginia
Social Awareness: Empathy
As part of the unit on social, emotional health, seventh-graders examine the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. Pairs then engage in an activity that analyzes a scenario and role play resolution strategies that show...
Health Smart Virginia
Relationship Skills and Communication
Relationship and communication skills are the heart of a lesson that focuses on passive, aggressive, and assertive communication. After examining examples of each type, teams develop an assertive, win/win solution that resolves a conflict.
Health Smart Virginia
Emotional Intelligence Quotient
As an end of the Health Smart unit self-assessment, scholars design a cup with a logo and motto that reveals their emotional intelligence. To prepare, individuals complete a worksheet describing the seven Emotional Intelligence Quotients...
Transforming Education
Growth Mindset Toolkit
A nine-slide presentation provides educators with practical ways they can help young people develop a growth mindset, a key competency in social-emotional learning.
Thoughtful Learning
Creating a Growth Mindset
A quick mimi-lesson models how to replace a fixed mindset with a growth mindset, a mindset that says improvement is possible with practice. Included is an activity that asks individuals to rewrite 10 fixed mindset statements with 10...
Health Smart Virginia
Self-Awareness
Introvert or extrovert? To find out more about themselves, class members fill out an Introvert or Extrovert worksheet. Learners are also introduced to a decision-making model that enhances self-awareness.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Independent Learners
In this lesson plan, students will learn about the skills of visualizing and verbalizing. Both skills will be used to help the students become independent learners.
Stanford University
Mindset Kit
This website provides free resources to teachers and parents for fostering a growth mindset in students and children. The materials were developed by The Project for Education Research that Scales (PERTS) at Stanford University. Includes...
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Connections Academy: How Students Can Accept Criticism and Grow From Feedback
This teacher resource provides resources that will guide applying growth mindset to feedback and guiding students to accept criticism to help them grow as learners. A video that features "Famous Failures" is included.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Growth Mindset?
This article explains what having a "growth mindset" means. The difference between "growth mindset" and "fixed mindset" are also explained.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Which Voice Will I Hear?
Find out about having both a fixed and a growth mindset talking to us and competing for our attention.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Write Your Own Smart Goal
This SMART resource is an activity about helping students write their own SMART goal.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Final Student Activity
The Growth Mindset Activities are designed to help your students build growth mindsets and develop learning strategies to start the school year strong. This is the final activity to help you remember what you learned and help your...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Exercising My Brain
This article gives some examples of how your brain grows when you learn new things.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mistakes Can Be Harmful Too
This article explains three common ways we allow mistakes to hurt our learning process.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mistakes Can Be Good if We Learn From Them!
Mistakes are a natural part of the learning process, and how we react to them can be either harmful or helpful. Listen as kids discuss their experiences with mistakes.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Strategies to Engage and Motivate Students on Khan Academy
A description of ways to make students excited and motivated to learn and practice on Khan Academy.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Connect: The Truth About Your Brain
At the end of this activity, students will be able to understand how your brain changes and grows when you challenge yourself to learn new things. There are 3 parts to this LearnStorm growth mindset activity.