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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.
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Perspective-Taking Empathy Lesson
How do you teach kids empathy? Learning to take someone else’s perspective can help kids begin to learn empathy. This is a fun lesson that teaches perspective-taking through engaging wildland firefighter (Smokejumper) photos. Students will analyze perspective/point-of-view using artful thinking strategies.
This product contains Google Slides and Fillable PDF versions
Resource Contains - 7 pages of activities and worksheets:
I See, I Think, I Wonder
Step In, Step Out, Step Back (2 versions)
Creative Questions
See, Think, Me, We
Compass Points
Rabbit-Duck
Who is this resource for?
This resource is useful for elementary general education teachers looking for lessons on teaching empathy through perspective taking. 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 student to perspective taking.
Why teach perspective taking?
Teaching students the ability to take someone else’s perspective lays the foundation for kindness and empathy. When students learn to “step into someone else’s shoes,” it helps them develop a deeper understanding and perception of their world. These factors affect how we act and feel about other people and events.
Lesson Objectives:
Analyze images to assume a person’s perspective/point-of-view.
Discuss the various perspectives with classmates.
Resource Features:
Lessons contain detailed teaching instructions.
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 whole class or small group discussions.
Lessons can be delivered in whole class, small group, or individual lesson format.
Related Resources
If you like this resource, you will want to check out:
Empathy Lessons BUNDLE
Empathy Lesson – Understanding Empathy | Exploring Your Iceberg
Empathy Lesson – Empathy Quiz & Refection | Our Power for Good
Copyright Information
© Positively Moxie. All rights reserved. This product is to be used by the buyer in the classroom or for personal use. The reproduction of this product for any other use is prohibited. You are not permitted to resell, distribute, or claim this product as your own. Multiple licenses can be purchased if you wish to share with other teachers.
Please feel free to contact us with questions. We love feedback!
contact@positivelymoxie.com
Empathy Quiz & Activities for Students
If you are trying to help your students develop empathy, this lesson can help! It contains an empathy quiz and other empathy activities for kids! It explores how one person’s empathetic feelings can ignite kind and compassionate action. The variety of activities and worksheets will allow for individual and small-group work. This lesson works well in upper elementary grades.
This product contains Google Slides and Fillable PDF versions
Lesson Contains - 9 worksheets and activities:
Empathy Quiz: Just How Empathetic Am I? (3 versions)
Empathy Quiz Reflection activity
If the Shoe Fits individual worksheet
If the Shoe Fits partner activity
Scenarios: What Would You Do? (small group activity)
You Have the Power to do Good worksheet
The Power of One, ask The Power of One Discussion Questions.
Coloring page: It All Begins With One and That’s Me
Who is this resource for?
This resource is useful for elementary general education teachers looking for lessons on teaching empathy. 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 student to empathy.
Lesson Objectives:
Analyze our typical empathetic responses.
Demonstrate how empathetic feelings can ignite kind and compassionate action.
Imagine what experiences might be like for other people.
Resource Features:
Lessons contain detailed teaching instructions.
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 whole class or small group discussions.
Lessons can be delivered in whole class, small group, or individual lesson format.
Students may complete the Empathy Quiz and reflection individually, do If the Shoe Fits with a partner and then top it off with Scenarios: What Would You Do? within a small group.
The variety of activities allows for flexible grouping.
These activities may be completed in succession or spread out over a period of time in any order.
Related Resources
If you like this resource, you will want to check out:
Empathy Lessons BUNDLE
Empathy Lesson – Understanding Empathy | Exploring Your Iceberg
Empathy Lesson – Seeing Other Perspectives
Copyright Information
© Positively Moxie. All rights reserved. This product is to be used by the buyer in the classroom or for personal use. The reproduction of this product for any other use is prohibited. You are not permitted to resell, distribute, or claim this product as your own. Multiple licenses can be purchased if you wish to share with other teachers.
Yoga Poses | Classroom Movement | Break Cards
Yoga is a useful and easy movement experience for students in the classroom. Yoga provides students with opportunities to improve flexibility and core strength. Research also suggests that practicing yoga reduces impulsivity, improves attention, and helps with relaxation.
Why use YOGA with your students?
Yoga helps us gain flexibility, get stronger, be stronger, more focused, and become relaxed. Yoga poses help students with improving balance, develop body awareness, gain flexibility and strength, and improve coordination. Students gain these skills and have fun doing them! Remember, yoga is a practice, meaning that it takes time and repeated repetition to gain skills.
Resource Contains:
24 Yoga Poses Cards
How to use Yoga Cards in the classroom and beyond
Ways to introduce & practice yoga
Implementation tips
Both color and black/white versions to print
How to use these yoga cards?
Use these yoga cards with students individually, in small groups, and for whole-class activities. 24 Yoga Pose Cards are designed to be fun and interactive cards that can be used for a variety of activities and games. Besides using yoga within a classroom, yoga can be used for team building, help prepare for a sports game, include in a club activity, or just calm a child down at the end of a long day.
Each card has the name of the pose, a picture of the pose, and a description of the movements needed to create the pose.
Print, cut, and laminate the cards for repeated use in games and activities.
Who is this resource for?
This resource is useful for elementary general education teachers looking for ways to teach and provide yoga to their students. 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 yoga poses and the benefits of yoga practice. 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
If you like this resource, you will want to check out:
Brain Breaks – Classroom Movement
Mindfulness Toolkit
Copyright Information
© Positively Moxie. All rights reserved. This product is to be used by the buyer in the classroom or for personal use. The reproduction of this product for any other use is prohibited. You are not permitted to resell, distribute, or claim this product as your own. Multiple licenses can be purchased if you wish to share with other teachers.
DISCLAIMER: This resource is designed for educational purposes and not intended as a replacement for counseling or additional supports. Please seek out professional help as needed.
Character Strengths Activities for Kids | Gratitude
Would you like to teach character strengths to your students? This lesson about 24 character strengths will help! This is a fun and reflective character strength activity for kids ages 11-14.
Resource Contains:
2 Character strengths student inventories
24 Character strength cards - each defining the character strength term
6 Virtue posters - defining each virtue
Top Character Strengths and Letters of Gratitude worksheets
Lesson Objectives:
Identify top character strengths through VIA character strengths survey.
Reflect on our unique combinations of strengths and how can use them to flourish.
Define & categorize strengths (bonus extension activities included).
Resource Features:
Lessons contain detailed teaching instructions.
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 whole class or small group discussions.
Lessons can be delivered in whole class, small group, or individual lesson format.
Who is this resource for?
This resource is useful for elementary general education teachers looking for lessons on teaching gratitude using character strengths. 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 student to gratitude.
Related Resources
If you like this resource, you will want to check out:
Gratitude Lesson – The Feelings of Gratitude | Gratitude in the Body
VIA Character Strength Boom Cards that complement this lesson. You may find the character strength boom cards at:
BOOM Cards – VIA 24 Character Strengths
BOOM Cards – Character Strength Scenarios
Copyright Information
© Positively Moxie. All rights reserved. This product is to be used by the buyer in the classroom or for personal use. The reproduction of this product for any other use is prohibited. You are not permitted to resell, distribute, or claim this product as your own. Multiple licenses can be purchased if you wish to share with other teachers.
DISCLAIMER: This resource is designed for educational purposes and not intended as a replacement for counseling or additional supports. Please seek out professional help as needed.
Empathy - Exploring Inner Qualities
Are you looking for activities to teach empathy to children? This empathy lesson for kids can help! Students will analyze how they share their invisible qualities with the world, including their values, beliefs, hopes and dreams and attain greater self-awareness of how they show up in the world.
This product contains Google Slides and Fillable PDF versions
Why Teach Empathy?
Understanding ourselves and how we show up in the word is a key factor in learning empathy. Teaching students empathy will allow them to flourish in the classroom and beyond.
Who is this resource for?
This resource is useful for elementary general education teachers looking for lessons on teaching empathy. 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 student’s empathy.
Lesson Objectives:
Reflect on our visible and invisible personal characteristics.
Increase empathy by allowing students glimpses into each other’s lives.
Lesson Includes:
6 pages of worksheets and activities along with a detailed teacher lesson plan.
The Amazing Parts of Me (analyze visible and invisible characteristics)
The Amazing Parts of Me (more structured)
It Begins with Thoughts and Words poem analysis
Thoughts --> Words --> Actions worksheet
Everything You Need is Already Inside YOU worksheet
The Amazing Parts of Me example page
Who is this resource for?
This resource is useful for elementary general education teachers looking for lessons on teaching empathy. 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 student’s empathy.
Resource Features:
Lessons contain detailed teaching instructions.
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 whole class or small group discussions.
Lessons can be delivered in whole class, small group, or individual lesson format.
Related Resources
If you like this resource, you will want to check out:
Empathy Lessons BUNDLE
Empathy Lesson – Empathy Quiz & Refection | If the Shoe Fits
Empathy Lesson – Seeing Other Perspectives
Copyright Information
© Positively Moxie. All rights reserved. This product is to be used by the buyer in the classroom or for personal use. The reproduction of this product for any other use is prohibited. You are not permitted to resell, distribute, or claim this product as your own. Multiple licenses can be purchased if you wish to share with other teachers.
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Mindfulness Activities and Lessons BUNDLE
This BUNDLE is designed to help youth understand and practice mindfulness to help support self-regulation, well-being, focused attention, and emotional control.
Mindfulness is focusing our attention on the present moment without judgement. Being able to practice and use mindfulness techniques are powerful tools to combat anxiety and worry. This resource provides students with mindfulness practice and a greater understanding of why these strategies are so effective in dealing with stress.
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 Contains:
Over 65 pages designed to support the understanding of mindfulness and mindfulness practices
24 Lessons with a detailed educator guide
Teaching Tips Sheet
4 Quizzes
Informative Parent Letter
6 Mindful Coloring Pages
6 Posters
20 Vocabulary Terms Defined in Word Wall Format
Reference sheet outlining current research, teaching tips, and special considerations for teaching mindfulness
24 Lessons:
What is Mindfulness?
A Mindful Body and Brain
The Positive Effects of Mindfulness
Mindful versus Unmindful
5 x 5 Sensory Scan
Sensory Capture
The Color Detective
Eagle Eyes
A Mindful Breath
The Brain and Mindful Breathing
My Breathing Tools
Directed Relaxation
The Stressed Brain
A Mindful Brain
Brain Power
Savoring
Thoughts and Emotions
Mindful Emotions
Pleasant Events
Unpleasant Events
Mindful Kindness
Body SCANS
5 Mindful Minutes
Kindness Reflection
Product Features:
Each lesson contains detailed teaching instructions.
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.
Posters can be printed and mounted in the classroom.
Quizzes can be given as a pre and/or post-assessment.
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 activity, you might also like our other MINDFULNESS resources:
Mindfulness Lesson – What is Mindfulness?
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 Vocabulary and Vocab Quizzes] (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12722849)
Mindfulness Quizzes – Assess Student Knowledge
Mindfulness Posters
[Mindfulness Coloring Pages](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12722851
Mindful Yoga Cards
Please feel free to contact us with questions.
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Copyright Information
© Positively Moxie. All rights reserved. This product is to be used by the buyer in the classroom or for personal use. The reproduction of this product for any other use is prohibited. You are not permitted to resell, distribute, or claim this product as your own. Multiple licenses can be purchased if you wish to share with other teachers.
DISCLAIMER: This resource is designed for educational purposes and not intended as a replacement for counseling or additional supports. Please seek out professional help as needed.
Gratitude Lesson for Kids - Feelings
Are you wondering how to teach kids gratitude? This lesson can help!
This lesson takes a deep dive into examining the feelings of gratitude in our bodies. This is the perfect lesson to make gratitude deeper and more meaningful for you and your students. Ideal for grades 4th - 6th.
What is gratitude?
Gratitude is the ability to recognize and acknowledge the good things, people, and places in our lives. Many studies have confirmed the positive effects of gratitude. This lesson gives students the opportunity to identify and share the things in their life for which they are grateful. Going deeper, students will also have the opportunity to reflect and engage gratitude in their own bodies.
Resource Contains:
8 Pages of reflective gratitude activities on which students may write, color, or type
A short, optional Google Slides is included.
Lesson Objectives:
Define gratitude and identify things in life for which we are grateful.
Reflect on the meaning of gratitude and how it feels in our bodies.
Why teach gratitude?
Teaching children the concept of gratitude is essential. Children who are grateful are happier, enjoy deeper relationships, and even earn higher grades in school. If you’ve ever wondered if it’s necessary to teach children about gratitude, the research asserts that it is. Teaching children about gratitude will enhance their lives and the lives of everyone around them.
Resource Features:
Lessons contain detailed teaching instructions.
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 whole class or small group discussions.
Lessons can be delivered in whole class, small group, or individual lesson format.
Who is this resource for?
This resource is useful for elementary general education teachers looking for lessons on teaching gratitude. 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 student to the feelings of gratitude.
Related Resources
If you like this resource, you will want to check out:
Gratitude Lesson – Grateful for my Strengths
BOOM Cards – VIA 24 Character Strengths
BOOM Cards – Character Strength Scenarios
Copyright Information
© Positively Moxie. All rights reserved. This product is to be used by the buyer in the classroom or for personal use. The reproduction of this product for any other use is prohibited. You are not permitted to resell, distribute, or claim this product as your own. Multiple licenses can be purchased if you wish to share with other teachers.
Mindfulness in Action | Mindfulness Lesson and Activities
Our brains are wired to be changed by our own experiences. What we pay attention to matters. Performing mindfulness activities helps us explore paying attention to the present moment without judgment in a variety of ways.
Lessons and Activities:
Mindful Kindness
Body SCANS
5 Mindful Minutes
Kindness Reflection
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.
Related Resources
If you like this resource, you will want to check out:
Mindful Yoga Cards
Copyright Information
© Positively Moxie. All rights reserved. This product is to be used by the buyer in the classroom or for personal use. The reproduction of this product for any other use is prohibited. You are not permitted to resell, distribute, or claim this product as your own. Multiple licenses can be purchased if you wish to share with other teachers.
DISCLAIMER: This resource is designed for educational purposes and not intended as a replacement for counseling or additional supports. Please seek out professional help as needed.
Please feel free to contact us with questions. We love feedback!
contact@positivelymoxie.com
Connect with Us!
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Teaching Self-Regulation - Toolkit #2 (with Google Slides)
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
Mindful Coloring Pages
This resource 6 pages of mindful coloring as an activity to reduce stress.
Who is this resource for?
This resource is useful for upper elementary general education teachers and middle school teachers looking for coloring pages on 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.
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.
Related Resources
If you like this resource, you will want to check out:
Mindful Yoga Cards
Copyright Information
© Positively Moxie. All rights reserved. This product is to be used by the buyer in the classroom or for personal use. The reproduction of this product for any other use is prohibited. You are not permitted to resell, distribute, or claim this product as your own. Multiple licenses can be purchased if you wish to share with other teachers.
DISCLAIMER: This resource is designed for educational purposes and not intended as a replacement for counseling or additional supports. Please seek out professional help as needed.
Please feel free to contact us with questions. We love feedback!
contact@positivelymoxie.com
Connect with Us!
www.positivelymoxie.com
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Stress and Mindfulness
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.
Senses and Mindfulness
This lesson on teaching mindfulness topic explores how we use our senses to become more mindfully aware of the present moment. Each time we can bring our attention back to our primary senses, it strengthens our concentration, a foundational skill in developing a mindfulness practice. The practice of focusing attention on our sensory experiences helps us with memory, problem solving, and creativity.
If you like this activity, you might also be interested in our other MINDFULNESS resources:
If you like this activity, you might also like our other MINDFULNESS resources:
Mindfulness BUNDLE
Mindfulness Lesson – What is Mindfulness?
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 Vocabulary and Vocab Quizzes] (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12722849)
Mindfulness Quizzes – Assess Student Knowledge
Mindfulness Posters
Mindfulness Coloring Pages
Mindful Yoga Cards
Please feel free to contact us with questions.
contact@positivelymoxie.com
Connect with us!
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Growth Mindset Activities BUNDLE
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
If you like teaching Growth Mindset, you might also be interested in our:
Growth Mindset Bulletin Board
Please feel free to contact us with questions.
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Self-Regulation Skills | SEL Toolkit #1
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
Growth Mindset Posters / Positive Cards
Use these GROWTH MINDSET POSTERS in your classroom! These posters will supplement our Growth Mindset lessons. Hang up the positive phrases for students to inspire them to learn a growth mindset. Smaller card size can be given to students to promote optimism.
Contains 4 posters in two sizes - 8.5 x 11 and card sizes.
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.
You might also be interested in our other GROWTH MINDSET RESOURCES:
Growth Mindset BUNDLE
Growth Mindset Lesson – Thinking Errors
Growth Mindset Lesson – Goal Setting
Growth Mindset Lesson – Growth vs. Fixed Mindset
Growth Mindset Lesson – The Brain
Growth Mindset Bulletin Board
Growth Mindset Vocabulary Word Wall and Quizzes
Growth Mindset Activities and Quizzes
Growth Mindset Coloring Pages
Please feel free to contact us with questions.
contact@positivelymoxie.com
Connect with us!
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Copyright Information
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Growth Mindset Coloring Pages | Quotes
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.
Growth Mindset Activities & Quizzes
These fun and engaging growth mindset activities supplement our growth mindset lessons. Assess students’ knowledge of growth mindset using the quizzes.
Product Contains:
Brain Scramble
2 Crossword Puzzles
Secret Message Decoder
Growth Mindset Summary
Mindset pre/post quiz (T/F)
Pre/post quiz 2 (fill-in-the-blank)
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.
You might also be interested in our other GROWTH MINDSET RESOURCES:
Growth Mindset BUNDLE
Growth Mindset Lesson – Thinking Errors
Growth Mindset Lesson – Goal Setting
Growth Mindset Lesson – Growth vs. Fixed Mindset
Growth Mindset Lesson – The Brain
Growth Mindset Bulletin Board
Growth Mindset Vocabulary Word Wall and Quizzes
Growth Mindset Posters & Positive Cards
Growth Mindset Coloring Pages
Please feel free to contact us with questions.
contact@positivelymoxie.com
Connect with us!
Positively Moxie website
Positively MOXIE Instagram
Positively MOXIE Pinterest
Copyright Information
© Positively Moxie. All rights reserved. This product is to be used by the buyer in the classroom or for personal use. The reproduction of this product for any other use is prohibited. You are not permitted to resell, distribute, or claim this product as your own. Multiple licenses can be purchased if you wish to share with other teachers.
Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset
If you are wondering, what is growth mindset and how do I develop growth mindset for kids, this lesson will help! Students will learn to identify growth mindset versus fixed mindset, study the power of yet, analyze the learning process, and practice reframing.
It is important to teach about a growth mindset because researchers have identified a strong correlation between mindset training and students’ improved grades and engagement.
This lesson is perfect for middle to upper elementary grades. I have even used it with middle-schoolers.
This lesson contains these Worksheets & Activities:
• 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
Also Included:
Teaching Tips
Parent Letter
Research Page
You might also be interested in our other GROWTH MINDSET RESOURCES:
Growth Mindset BUNDLE
Growth Mindset Lesson – Thinking Errors
Growth Mindset Lesson – Goal Setting
Growth Mindset Lesson – The Brain
Growth Mindset Bulletin Board
Growth Mindset Vocabulary Word Wall and Quizzes
Growth Mindset Activities and Quizzes
Growth Mindset Posters & Positive Cards
Growth Mindset Coloring Pages
Please feel free to contact us with questions.
contact@positivelymoxie.com
Connect with us!
Positively Moxie website
Positively MOXIE Instagram
Positively MOXIE Pinterest
Copyright Information
© Positively Moxie. All rights reserved. This product is to be used by the buyer in the classroom or for personal use. The reproduction of this product for any other use is prohibited. You are not permitted to resell, distribute, or claim this product as your own. Multiple licenses can be purchased if you wish to share with other teachers.
DISCLAIMER: This resource is designed for educational purposes and not intended as a replacement for counseling or additional supports. Please seek out professional help as needed.
Growth Mindset Goals for Students
Would you like to help your students set goals? This unit can help you do it!
Learning how to set goals and creating an action plan for achieving them is also a key part of cultivating a growth mindset. Growth-mindset goals are uniquely actionable and focus on the small steps of growth. In this unit, students will identify the differences between learning and performance goals, practice setting goals by categories, set and analyze SMART and AMPS goals, engage in backward planning, and experience how little changes in habits can lead to big changes in growth and achievement.
I have used these goal-setting worksheets with mid-upper elementary students, and also with middle-schoolers.
Supporting Worksheets & Activities:
• 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)
Also Included:
Teaching Tips
Parent Letter
Research Page
You might also be interested in our other GROWTH MINDSET RESOURCES:
Growth Mindset BUNDLE
Growth Mindset Lesson – Thinking Errors
Growth Mindset Lesson – Growth vs. Fixed Mindset
Growth Mindset Lesson – The Brain
Growth Mindset Bulletin Board
Growth Mindset Vocabulary Word Wall and Quizzes
Growth Mindset Activities and Quizzes
Growth Mindset Posters & Positive Cards
Growth Mindset Coloring Pages
Please feel free to contact us with questions.
contact@positivelymoxie.com
Connect with us!
Positively Moxie website
Positively MOXIE Instagram
Positively MOXIE Pinterest
Copyright Information
© Positively Moxie. All rights reserved. This product is to be used by the buyer in the classroom or for personal use. The reproduction of this product for any other use is prohibited. You are not permitted to resell, distribute, or claim this product as your own. Multiple licenses can be purchased if you wish to share with other teachers.
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Take Care,
Molly & Jill