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September 24, 2017

Growth Mindset activities

Whoohooo!! It’s finally here! Launch day for my new site! I am so excited about the new look – it was long overdue.  I’ve been working with Becca, from Jumping Jax Designs, and I just canNOT say enough amazing things about her.  If you’re looking for a blog/site makeover, I highly suggest using her.  She’s the real deal.

Ok, so let me just tell ya’… I was a nervous wreck about switching from Blogger to WordPress.  Like way nervous.  I originally thought, “no way, I can’t do that.”, but this school year I’m working on having growth mindset. I’m determined to figure this WordPress thing out!

Speaking of growth mindset, I wanted to show y’all some new activities to help students understand Growth Mindset.

GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITIES

Discussion cards are a great way to get students thinking about their thinking and their growth mindsets.  Discussion cards generate so many great conversations for students.

You could use the discussion cards as a “turn and talk” with your neighbor activity or as a whole group discussion to generate information for a class created anchor chart.

A KWL chart is a great way to introduce growth mindset to your class.

Read alouds are also a great way to introduce growth mindset to your students.  Here are some great ones!

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Your Fantastic Elastic Brain 

The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes

Not Yet

The Most Magnificent Thing

Bubble Gum Brain

Thanks for the Feedback

The Dot

Beautiful Oops

What Do You Do With a Problem

Sorting mindset cards are a great way for students to practice differentiating between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.

After completing the sort as a class, students can practice differentiating independently by coloring the words that show a growth mindset.

Or students could work in partners to complete this spinner game where they identify growth mindset and fixed mindset.

I think it is so important for students to have a visual.  This barbell craftivity gives students that visual that they need. It helps them see that having a growth mindset is like working your brain out….making it grow and making it stronger.

And of course, making connections is also very important for students.  Here is a look at some writing activities that students can complete.

Afterwards, students can write a way that they can show a growth mindset on an anchor chart.

You can leave this anchor chart up all year long for your students as a reminder to always use their growth mindset!

You can find all the growth mindset activities here or PIN the picture below to save the ideas for later.

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Filed Under: back to school, Growth Mindset, Writing

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