Your MONTHLY RESOURCE FROM NED: september
Let’s keep exercising our mindset muscles with NED’s ‘Brain Break’ activities. This month’s theme is ‘Doing Your Best,’ and NED wants to remind us that we each have our own unique strengths and talents!
Lessons: How to Grow A Brain Introducing Growth vs. Fixed Mindset
These lesson concepts are based on three decades of systematic research by Carol Dweck, professor of psychology at Stanford University on Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset.
NED’s message of Never Give Up and Do Your Best can help your students achieve their potential, embrace challenges, persist in the face of setbacks, and see mistakes and failures as a necessary to grow and master useful skills.
K-2 Lesson
Compare and contrast these two poems to introduce kids to the idea that just like plants, brains can grow!
7 pgs - PDF
DOWNLOAD3-6 Lesson
Includes writing prompts, discussion starters, activities and printables.
5 pgs - PDF
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