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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.
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Khan Academy: Reflect: The Truth About Your Brain
Learning and practicing help strengthen and change our brains. Watch a short video and complete reflection questions on how your brain continues to grow.
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Khan Academy: Connect: The Growth Mindset
An important part of growing your brain is understanding common obstacles that can get in your way or throw you off track when learning and how to overcome them. There are 3 parts to this LearnStorm growth mindset activity.
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Khan Academy: Learn: The Growth Mindset
This article showcases the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.
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Khan Academy: Reflect: The Growth Mindset
In this reflection, do your best to think about the challenges and obstacles you face in your own life. Use these reflection questions to piece together a plan for overcoming them using strategies shared in previous activities.
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Khan Academy: Connect: Mistakes Are Opportunities
At the end of this activity, students will understand that mistakes are a key part of the learning process. There are 3 parts to this LearnStorm growth mindset activity.
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Khan Academy: Learn: Mistakes Are Opportunities
This article covers three common ways we allow mistakes to hurt our learning process.
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Khan Academy: Reflect: Mistakes Are Opportunities
This article describes three types of mistakes and some strategies for transforming them into opportunities to grow your brain. Reflection questions are included.
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Khan Academy: Connect: Keep Going Keep Growing
This activity will help students understand why working through frustration will help them grow.
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Khan Academy: Learn: Keep Going. Keep Growing
This article lays out a few steps to help you become better at dealing with frustration. Practicing them will make it easier to persist and, over time, help you get less frustrated during your learning journey.
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Khan Academy: Reflect: Keep Going. Keep Growing
Not all strategies for overcoming frustration work for everyone. You have to find out which strategies work best for you! Use the reflection questions below to develop your own plan to keep going, keep growing when you get frustrated.
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Khan Academy: Connect: Supercharge Your Goals
Trying challenging things is the best way to grow your brain. At the end of this activity, students will be able to make SMART goals that can help guide growth.
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Khan Academy: Reflect: Supercharge Your Goals
This article gives a few steps that can help you get ready to commit to your goals.
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Khan Academy: Connect: My Kind of Cool
Certain strategies can help us develop deeper connections with our peers and our learning, allowing us to get comfortable more quickly. This activity will introduce these relationship-building activities.
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Khan Academy: Learn: My Kind of Cool
Listen to successful people who have struggled with belonging academically and with their school peers and how they conquered those challenges.
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Khan Academy: Reflect: My Kind of Cool
In this activity, students will write a letter to an incoming ninth-grader reminding them that it's normal not to feel like you belong in your new school, grade, or classes right away. Assure them that this feeling is temporary and does...
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Khan Academy: Reflect: Serendipity
Students will answer reflection questions based on previous videos about career journeys.
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Khan Academy: Connect: The Path Forward
This culminating activity will help students identify ways they can become an influencer in their classroom and community.
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Khan Academy: Reflect: The Path Forward
This activity asks students to reflect on what they have learned from the Growth Mindset activities.
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Khan Academy: Activity: Learning and Our Brains
Students will reflect on the following question and record their responses - How would learning a new skill make your life better or more interesting?
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University of Pennsylvania: "A" Apple Pie
Younger students discover letters A-Z in this colorful story-like tutorial.
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Phil Tulga: Music and Math Teacher Resources
This personal site is great for the music/math teacher looking for a new and fun way to teach math shapes with music and musical instrunments.
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Musical Math
This site includes 14 activities which explore how math and music are related. Great exercise opportunity for any student to sharpen their math and musical skills.
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Namta/maria Montessori: A Brief Biography
Some great images of this great educator accompany a brief biography. Montessori's ideas include the concept that, "Children teach themselves."