Molly, a school counselor and teacher, and Jill, an Occupational Therapist, have combined their experience and energy - their MOXIE - to create relevant and actionable resources to nurture students' confidence and resilience.
Molly, a school counselor and teacher, and Jill, an Occupational Therapist, have combined their experience and energy - their MOXIE - to create relevant and actionable resources to nurture students' confidence and resilience.
Mindfulness is noticing our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations in the present moment. Paying close attention helps us refocus and maintain attention to what is happening around us now. Research on mindfulness tells us that practicing mindfulness has many positive effects on our bodies and brains. Mindfulness improves our resilience and well-being.
Lessons and Activities:
What is Mindfulness?
A Mindful Body and Brain
The Positive Effects of Mindfulness
Mindful versus Unmindful
Who is this resource for?
This resource is useful for upper elementary general education teachers and middle school teachers looking for lessons on teaching mindfulness. This resource would also be an asset for special education teachers, parents, school counselors, occupational therapists, and other support professionals, as well as parents wanting to expose their students to mindfulness. This resource would also be appropriate for those working with students struggling with emotional and behavioral concerns, attention issues, depression, and anxiety.
Product Features:
Each lesson contains detailed teaching instructions.
Student worksheets have clear directions and are intended to be in a “low prep” format so they can easily be printed and used.
Many of the worksheets lend themselves to the whole class or small group discussions.
Lessons can be delivered in whole class, small group, or individual lesson format.
What Is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is noticing our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations in the present moment. Paying close attention helps us refocus and maintain attention to what is happening around us now. Research on mindfulness tells us that practicing mindfulness has many positive effects on our bodies and brains. Mindfulness improves our resilience and well-being.
Why Teach Mindfulness?
Today’s youth have a lot of anxiety and stress. Frequently, students are triggered by events causing flight, fight, freeze (stress) reactions impacting self-regulation and ability to cope. Mindfulness practices help youth with their ability to regain a feeling of calm after a stress response. Mindfulness increases our resilience and well-being by improving our immune function (how we fight illness), increasing attention and focus, and helping us self-regulate.
If you like this lesson, you might also like our other MINDFULNESS resources:
Mindfulness Lesson - Mindfulness in Action
Mindfulness Lesson – Mindfulness and our Thoughts
Mindfulness Lesson – Mindful Breathing
Mindfulness Lesson – Senses and Mindfulness
Mindfulness Lesson – What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness Vocabulary and Vocab Quizzes
Mindfulness Quizzes – Assess Student Knowledge
Mindfulness Posters
Mindfulness Coloring Pages
Today’s youth can have a lot of anxiety and stress. Frequently, students are triggered by events causing flight, fight, freeze (stress) reactions impacting self-regulation and their ability to cope. Mindfulness practices help us with attention, focus, and self-calming. Mindfulness techniques provide students with a greater understanding of why these tools are so effective in combatting the stress response.
Lessons and Activities:
The Stressed Brain
A Mindful Brain
Brain Power
Savoring
Who is this resource for?
This resource is useful for upper elementary general education teachers and middle school teachers looking for lessons on teaching mindfulness. This resource would also be an asset for special education teachers, parents, school counselors, occupational therapists, and other support professionals, as well as parents wanting to expose their students to mindfulness. This resource would also be appropriate for those working with students struggling with emotional and behavioral concerns, attention issues, depression, and anxiety.
Product Features:
Each lesson contains detailed teaching instructions.
Student worksheets have clear directions and are intended to be in a “low prep” format so they can easily be printed and used.
Many of the worksheets lend themselves to the whole class or small group discussions.
Lessons can be delivered in whole class, small group, or individual lesson format.
What Is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is noticing our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations in the present moment. Paying close attention helps us refocus and maintain attention to what is happening around us now. Research on mindfulness tells us that practicing mindfulness has many positive effects on our bodies and brains. Mindfulness improves our resilience and well-being.
Why Teach Mindfulness?
Today’s youth have a lot of anxiety and stress. Frequently, students are triggered by events causing flight, fight, freeze (stress) reactions impacting self-regulation and ability to cope. Mindfulness practices help youth with their ability to regain a feeling of calm after a stress response. Mindfulness increases our resilience and well-being by improving our immune function (how we fight illness), increasing attention and focus, and helping us self-regulate.
Are you wondering how to teach growth mindset to your students? These lessons can help you in your quest to teaching growth mindset? These activities and lessons teach the important concepts of a growth mindset to kids.
Students who tend to have a growth mindset believe that intelligence can be nurtured. They focus on learning instead of just looking smart, demonstrate a strong work ethic, and seek challenges. This bundle contains over 90 pages of engaging lessons and activities designed to support the understanding and practice of a growth mindset.
**Resource Contains:
24+ Lessons divided into 4 units
Each teaching unit contains a student self-assessment
Teaching Tips Sheet (current research, teaching tips, and special considerations for teaching Growth Mindset)
4 Quizzes
Informative Parent Letter
4 Growth Mindset Coloring Pages
4 Posters
20 Vocabulary Terms Defined in Word Wall Format
What is a growth mindset?
Who is this resource for?
This resource is useful for upper elementary teachers and middle school teachers looking for lessons on teaching growth mindset. It would also be an asset for parents, counselors, specialists, and other educators.
GROWTH MINDSET: Belief that ability and talents can improve with effort.
FIXED MINDSET: Belief that ability is a fixed trait that cannot change
TABLE of CONTENTS for Lessons:
THE BRAIN
Growth Self-assessment
How to Build a Stronger Brain
Build a Synapse
Parts of a Neuron
The Brain Neuron Cell
Your Amazing Brain
Lobes of the Brain
Pruning Dendrites
Neuroplasticity
GROWTH VERSUS FIXED MINDSET
Mindset Self-Assessment
Why Does Mindset Matter?
Positive Self-Talk
Bouncing Back to a Growth Mindset
Growth or Fixed Mindset?
The Power of Yet
Learning Something New
GOAL-SETTING
Goal-setting Self-Assessment
What Type of Goal?
Goal-Setting: 4 or 5 Categories
SMART Goals
Goal-Setting: Backward Planning
Set an “AMPS” goal
AMPS Goal Analysis
Goal-Setting Analysis
Habits → Goals (7 days / 21 days)
DEVELOPING THINKING PATTERNS
Thinking Patterns Self-Assessment
Think Like an Optimist
Is the Thought Helpful or Unhelpful?
Ideas to Solve a Problem
Think Through a Mistake
Accepting Responsibility
Positive Affirmations
Over 45 pages of WORKSHEETS, POSTERS, and CARDS for learning the skills of self-regulation. Self-regulation helps teach students emotional control and emotional regulation skills. This toolkit includes posters, worksheets, quizzes, emotions cards, and a tools poster with tools cards for teaching students self-regulation.
THIS TOOLKIT CONTAINS GOOGLE SLIDES AND FILLABLE PDF OPTIONS
WHO IS THIS RESOURCE FOR?
This resource is useful for upper elementary general education teachers and middle school teachers looking for lessons on teaching self-regulation. This resource would also be an asset for special education teachers, parents, school counselors, occupational therapists, and other support professionals, as well as parents wanting to expose their students to skills of self-regulation. This resource would also be appropriate for those working with students struggling with emotional and behavioral concerns, attention issues, depression, autism, and anxiety.
RESOURCE INCLUDES:
12 POSTERS
•4 Colored emotions (BLUE, GREEN, YELLOW, RED)
•4 What each SOUNDS like, LOOKS like, and FEELS like
•My Tools #1 with 20 individual tools cards
•How Am I Feeling? (color and black/white versions)
•How Big Is My Problem?
13 STUDENT WORKSHEETS
Emotions
•My Feelings Face (girl, boy, gender-neutral versions) – Understanding facial cues
•Understanding My Feelings – Understanding how we feel and process emotions
•The Color of My Emotions – How my feelings show up
•Fun with Emotions! – Labeling emotions with the right emotion
•My Feelings Link – Making the connections between actions and feelings
•Which Emotion? – What is expected using scenario questions
Understanding Perspectives
•My Triggers - When I get worried, frustrated, or upset!
•Expected vs. Unexpected Behaviors – Identifying behaviors as being expected or unexpected
•Inner Coach, Inner Critic – Understanding how positive and negative self-talk affects us
•How Big Is My Problem? – Determining the size of a problem
•Asking for Help – Knowing when to ask others for support
Tools
•The Tools I Use (color and black/white versions)
Journal
•My Emotions Journal – Keeping a log to better understand triggers
2 QUIZZES
•Pre/Post Quiz 1 – Check my understanding with T/F Qs
•Pre/Post Quiz 2 – How much do I know? (fill-in-the-blank Qs)
36 EMOTIONS CARDS
•36 Feeling CARDS with 3 versions including color, black / white, & emoji
PRODUCT FEATURES:
•Student worksheets have clear directions and are intended to be a “low prep” format so they can easily be printed and used
•Many of the worksheets lend themselves to the whole class or small group discussions
•Emotions and Tools cards can be cut apart and used in games and activities
•Posters can be printed and mounted in the classroom
•Tools, How Big Is My Problem?, and How Am I Feeling? posters can be printed for individual students or mounted in the classroom’s calming corner/break area for easy reference
•Quizzes can be given as a pre and/or post-assessment
Are you looking for fun coloring pages that kids will love and yet still serve a purpose? These are inspirational coloring pages that you can feel good about having students color during class time because they promote positivity and a growth mindset. There are 25 different coloring pages in this package with quotes from a variety of famous figures - some modern and some historical.
Resource Contains: (examples)
25 inspirational quotes coloring pages
QUOTES in these Coloring Pages:
• Nothing will work unless you do. ~ Maya Angelou
• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does! ~ William James
• Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. ~Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• There is nothing impossible to they who will try. ~ Alexander the Great
• I can do small things in a great way. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
• Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. ~ Barry Sheene
• Make each day your masterpiece. ~ John Wooden
• Never bend your head, always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
~ Helen Keller
• Always stay true to yourself. ~ Michelle Obama
• Good thoughts will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look
lovely. ~ Roald Dahl
• All dreams are within reach when you keep moving towards them. ~ Viola Davis
• Be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
• Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. ~ Maya Angelou
• Let us always meet each other with a smile. ~ Mother Teresa
• You must do the things you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
• You are enough just as you are. ~ Meghan Markle
• Spread love everywhere you go. ~ Mother Teresa
• Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
• Strong people don’t put others down; they lift them up. ~ Michael P. Watson
• Treat others how you wish to be treated. ~ Proverb
• The power of imagination makes us infinite. ~ John Muir
• Believe you can, and you’re halfway there. ~ Teddy Roosevelt
• If my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it. ~ Muhammad Ali
• Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~ Japanese Proverb
• Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, “I’m possible!” ~ Audrey Hepburn
Who is this resource for?
This resource is useful for elementary general education teachers looking for fun, engaging independent activities to promote a growth mindset.
This resource contains over 20 pages and is designed to teach students emotional control and emotional regulation skills. Self-regulation is the ability to understand our feelings and regulate our level of alertness in order to reach our goals. Teach your students the important skills of self-regulation!
FILLABLE PDF and DIGITAL READY with GOOGLE SLIDES
RESOURCE INCLUDES:
5 POSTERS
•4 Tools to move out of each emotion (4 colors)
•My Tools #2 with 20 tools and separate / individual tools cards
2 ASSESSMENTS
•Self Assessment – How much do I know about self-regulation?
•Self-Regulation Self Assessment – Rating my understanding of self-regulation
9 WORKSHEETS
EMOTIONS
•My Emotional Thermometer – Matching feeling words with a temperature gauge (includes blank version too)
•Emotions Vocabulary – Using a feelings wheel
CALMING TECHNIQUES
•My Calming Plan – Creating a 4-step visual calming sequence
•My Cool Down List – Using a checklist to figure out what calms me down
•My Breathing Tools – Using mindful breathing for self-calming
•Learning What Calm “Feels” Like – Using our body’s cues to feel calm
THINKING STRATEGIES
•The Size of a Problem – Determining how big or small a problem really is
•My Stoplight Tool – Understanding my options
UNDERSTANDING PERSPECTIVES
•Rigid Versus Flexible Thinking – Understanding my thinking patterns
Resource features:
•Student worksheets have clear directions and are intended to be a “low prep” format so they can be easily printed and used
•Many of the worksheets lend themselves to whole class or small group discussions
•Emotions and Tools cards can be cut apart and used in games and activities
•Posters can be printed and mounted in the classroom
•Tools posters can be printed for individual students or mounted in the classroom’s calming corner/break area for easy reference
•Self-assessments can be given as a pre and/or post assessment
This product is all new and contains DIFFERENT worksheets, posters, tool posters and tools cards from our original Self-regulation Toolkit #1 Product.
Who is this resource for?
This resource is useful for elementary general education teachers looking for worksheets, posters, coping tools, and quizzes to teach self-regulation. This resource would also be an asset for special education teachers, parents, school counselors, occupational therapists, and other support professionals, as well as parents wanting to expose their students to self-regulation skill development. This resource would also be appropriate for those working with students struggling with emotional and behavioral concerns, attention issues, depression, autism, and anxiety.
Related Resources
This resource is included in Self-regulation Skills BUNDLE
If you like this resource, you will want to check out:
Self-regulation Toolkit #1
Mindfulness allows us to regulate our attention so that we benefit from positive experiences and limit the effect of worry and destructive experiences. Focusing our thinking on what brings us joy and fulfillment lets our thinking settle on the positive – positive thoughts and positive emotions.
Lessons and Activities:
Thoughts and Emotions
Mindful Emotions
Pleasant Events
Unpleasant Events
Who is this resource for?
This resource is useful for upper elementary general education teachers and middle school teachers looking for lessons on teaching mindfulness. This resource would also be an asset for special education teachers, parents, school counselors, occupational therapists, and other support professionals, as well as parents wanting to expose their students to mindfulness. This resource would also be appropriate for those working with students struggling with emotional and behavioral concerns, attention issues, depression, and anxiety.
Product Features:
Each lesson contains detailed teaching instructions.
Student worksheets have clear directions and are intended to be in a “low prep” format so they can easily be printed and used.
Many of the worksheets lend themselves to the whole class or small group discussions.
Lessons can be delivered in whole class, small group, or individual lesson format.
What Is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is noticing our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations in the present moment. Paying close attention helps us refocus and maintain attention to what is happening around us now. Research on mindfulness tells us that practicing mindfulness has many positive effects on our bodies and brains. Mindfulness improves our resilience and well-being.
Why Teach Mindfulness?
Today’s youth have a lot of anxiety and stress. Frequently, students are triggered by events causing flight, fight, freeze (stress) reactions impacting self-regulation and ability to cope. Mindfulness practices help youth with their ability to regain a feeling of calm after a stress response. Mindfulness increases our resilience and well-being by improving our immune function (how we fight illness), increasing attention and focus, and helping us self-regulate.
If you like this product, you might want to check out our other MINDFULNESS RESOURCES:
*Mindfulness BUNDLE
Mindfulness Lesson – Mindfulness in Action
Mindfulness Lesson – Stress and Mindfulness
Mindfulness Lesson – Mindfulness and our Thoughts
Mindfulness Lesson – Mindful Breathing
[Mindfulness Lesson – Senses and Mindfulness]
Mindfulness Lesson – What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness Vocabulary and Vocab Quizzes
Mindfulness Quizzes – Assess Student Knowledge
Mindfulness Posters
Mindfulness Coloring Pages
Mindful Yoga Cards
Create a visually engaging and fun bulletin board/classroom decor to teach your students the power of developing a growth mindset!
Students with a growth mindset believe that intelligence can be nurtured. They focus on learning instead of just looking smart, demonstrate a strong work ethic, and seek challenges.
This product contains COLOR and BLACK/WHITE versions
Resource Contains:
8 Posters identifying growth mindset concepts
20 Vocabulary terms defined
20 Positive growth mindset quotes
5 Additional posters highlighting growth mindset concepts
Who is this resource for?
This resource is helpful for upper elementary and middle school teachers looking for engaging classroom decor to help teach a growth mindset. It would also be an asset for parents, counselors, specialists, and other educators.
October is such a beautiful month with the leaves starting to change colors. We wish you the best in October and we hope that you enjoy our calendar.
Sincerely,
Molly & Jill