Growth Mindset, Metacognition Strategies & Power of Yet BUNDLE for Middle School

Description

Develop growth mindset for middle school students by introducing metacognition strategies  and “power of yet” activities into your classroom.  These interactive growth mindset activities for middle and high school develop your students’ metacognition strategies through reading, discussion and vocabulary enrichment.

Why will these Growth Mindset, Metacognition Strategies and Power of Yet Activities benefit you?

• Easy to prep metacognition strategies
• Can be used in Google Classroom
• Print & digital
• Common core aligned
• Develops reading skills
• Activities encourage passionate discussion on views of intelligence
• Improves capacity to learn
• Can be used throughout the year
• Varied activities to teach growth mindset
• Highly responsive resource support (NEED Help?  Contact me via email or Zoom)
• Students discover the science behind how they learn
• Potential for this BUNDLE to GROW: This bundle will increase in price if I add new items – I add items whenever I’ve authored a new resource to support my own students’ growth mindset and metacognition development- so grab it now to get all future updates for FREE.

Use this FREE Middle School Growth Mindset Resource comparing the brains of Zombies and humans as a fun way to generate discussion about learning and intelligence,  If your Middle and High school students enjoy this, you may be interested in my other Zombie-themed lessons.

What is included in this Growth Mindset for Middle Schoolers bundle?

• Anticipation guide – students reflect on their own beliefs about intelligence and learning.
• An original 2-page article on how the brain develops at TWO levels (940L and 600-700L – BONUS added December 2018).

It includes:

– Information on intelligence as something to be developed, rather than fixed

– The role of mindset in learning

– The power of ‘yet’

• Vocabulary activity 1 – I Have; Who Has? Review key vocabulary in the article.  Can be used to help students remember definitions (BONUS added August 2016)
• Vocabulary activity 2 – Guess from Context: worksheet and graphic versions provided as editable PDFs.  Useful for everyone including ESL, EAL or EAP students. (BONUS added December 2018)
•  A 2-page handout of tasks to complete while reading: citing evidence; finding the main idea; recognizing cause & effect; identifying the importance of a section as part of a whole; and synthesis.
• Answer key to the reading tasks.
• 36 Discussion task cards as a follow up to the reading, so students can develop their ideas and apply critical thinking (BONUS: 24 additional task cards added March 2019)