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These literature unit activities for Your Fantastic Elastic Brain by JoAnn Deak has a digital distance learning option in Google Slides. Please refer to the final seven pages of the file for the link and instructions.
Are you teaching your students about growth mindset? Your Fantastic Elastic Brain by JoAnn Deak is a perfect segue for teaching your students the power of growth mindset. Conceptually, these ideas are perfect for any level, but this literature unit was created with 3rd-6th graders in mind.
I recommend starting the school year (or your growth mindset instruction) with material that teaches students about the brain. This provides students with a solid foundation for building subsequent growth mindset instruction.
Infused with reflections, challenges (including a STEM challenge for creating slingshots using rubber bands), and opportunities to identify and clarify growth mindset vs fixed mindset, your students are sure to learn and have a great deal of fun!
NOTE: THIS INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!
This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.
This file contains 37 pages + Google Slides™.
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The examples on the cards were awesome. I was able to use the cards in multiple ways (bingo, flashcards, etc). This is an awesome resource.
I’ve purchased many Growth Mindset resources over the years, and this is by far one of the best. It is thoughtfully put together, thorough, and meaningful. The students are engaged…and mindsets are shifting! Love it. Thanks!
My class does Daily Affirmations, and these cards create great conversation starters as well as reminders. They enhance our Growth Mindset board so beautifully and help keep me on track when I start to feel frustrated. Print, laminate a set for your wall, and have kids copy them into a journal. Such a great boost to start the day!
This is an excellent resource. Well created, student friendly, clear and concise! Thank you so much for sharing your talents!
I love ALLLLL of your resources and this one is no exception! I use these (laminated) Yoga cards to reference when either myself or another student is leading the class in Brain Breaks in between subjects.
I loved everything in this resource. My fifth graders loved the flipbook. They reflected and practiced self-awareness, which is something we covered in SEL. I did this at the end of the year as a fun activity.
I loved this resource! It was simple to use, engaging, and relevant. I loved the simplicity of each slide. The text and graphics were kid-friendly, beautifully formatted for easy reading, and best of all, there was no prep!
This is everything you could need and more. The titles are awesome, and the activities are so well done. My kids loved it across both of my grades. Wow!
I used this during our Owen & Mzee unit on an emergency SUB day! The digital resource was perfect to assign via google classroom at home. I loved that my students were able to independently review multiple skills with our current text.
The task cards work wonderfully in literacy centers. They provide quick review and serve to upgrade student’s writing. Environment skill support is essential, and the anchor charts provide the scaffolding needed by many.
I am very pleased with everything I purchased from your store! Thank you for creative, colorful, USEFUL resources!
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This was the best resource I have found for teaching my students strategies for figuring out unknown words. We completed one of each type of activity in a whole group setting. Then they practiced with a partner before doing their independent practice. My students were highly successful with this resource. Thank you!
I absolutely loved these awards! I love all the categories. I love all the sayings that go with each category. I love how there are boy and girl awards for each category, and most of all I love how super easy it was to use! All I had to do was enter my name and date and it was added to each award automatically. Then all I had to do was fill in the names. Thanks for this resource!
This is an amazing resource and I have used it over and over again! Thank you for such tremendous products! It barely fits in a year without skipping a few lessons.
I love this bundle! I have used it for the past two years and it has been so great to use it to get to know my new students. My students also enjoy doing them as they are easy activities to do.
This resource doesn’t take much time to prep. I made copies on color paper, cut, and laminated them so I could store them for future use. Each morning, I share an affirmation that I feel my students can relate to and I have them share their feelings or point of view on the affirmation. I post each day’s affirmation on the wall near the classroom door, and we reference past ones as needed. My goal is to have a wall of affirmations by the end of the school year.
These task cards are set-up for easy use by the students in the Google classroom. The text is engaging and with the recommendation for 3rd grade to 6th grade, all students have an opportunity to have success.
Getting to the main idea of a passage can be difficult for some students. Use this digital, as I did, for morning work or homework. Print out the PDF version and work small group.
This has been a great resource for our journal writing in class! The prompts are always thought provoking and even get my hesitant writers to get something on the paper. Thank you!
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Joelle V –
Used as part of morning meeting to lead into the character education trait: grit.
Joelle V –
Used as part of morning meeting to lead into the character education trait: grit.
Rachel McIntosh –
Thank you!
Rachel McIntosh –
Thank you!
Mary Hillard –
Looking forward to using this with my 5/6 ELA students. I wish it was editable as I found a typo (pg. 7 under Fixed Mindset).
Mary Hillard –
Looking forward to using this with my 5/6 ELA students. I wish it was editable as I found a typo (pg. 7 under Fixed Mindset).
Arlene Armstrong –
I’m excited to use this with my class.
Arlene Armstrong –
I’m excited to use this with my class.
Angie T –
GREAT resource! Had to keep an eye on the rubber bands though! 🙂
Angie T –
GREAT resource! Had to keep an eye on the rubber bands though! 🙂
Carol T –
Well done but some materials too advanced for third graders
Carol T –
Well done but some materials too advanced for third graders
Brenda L –
I used this book with my students when the Science teacher did her unit on the body systems. It was a great tie in and the students remembered more. They still refer back to the book at times in class.
Brenda L –
I used this book with my students when the Science teacher did her unit on the body systems. It was a great tie in and the students remembered more. They still refer back to the book at times in class.
Lindsay C –
Great Resource
Lindsay C –
Great Resource
Charlotte S –
Can’t wait to use this!
Charlotte S –
Can’t wait to use this!
Rebecca W –
Really fun to use to get kids thinking about their “I can” or “I can’t” mindset.
Rebecca W –
Really fun to use to get kids thinking about their “I can” or “I can’t” mindset.
Rhonda W –
I’m not seeing how this is a literature unit, but it is a great resource for growth mindset lessons. It has a lot of great thought/discussion-provoking activities. I’m using it about 2 days per week for about 20 minutes per day, and I am only a couple activities into with the students, but we are loving it!
Rhonda W –
I’m not seeing how this is a literature unit, but it is a great resource for growth mindset lessons. It has a lot of great thought/discussion-provoking activities. I’m using it about 2 days per week for about 20 minutes per day, and I am only a couple activities into with the students, but we are loving it!
Jacqueline H –
Great product to accompany read aloud.
Jacqueline H –
Great product to accompany read aloud.
Sarah H –
Brought some academic foundation to a topic that can become fluffy
Sarah H –
Brought some academic foundation to a topic that can become fluffy
kris E –
Thanks for creating these! Great activities!
kris E –
Thanks for creating these! Great activities!
melanie W –
great
melanie W –
great
Karen L –
Some good ideas to use alongside the text.
Karen L –
Some good ideas to use alongside the text.
Elizabeth Y –
Excited to use this
Elizabeth Y –
Excited to use this
Katelyn B –
Awesome package to go with the book.
Katelyn B –
Awesome package to go with the book.
Mercedes Escriba –
Great!
Mercedes Escriba –
Great!
Ms Blais All Stars –
Not quite what I expected, but a good little resource. A bit overpriced for what you get, as many of the activities you can do with the paper/are on pinterest.
Ms Blais All Stars –
Not quite what I expected, but a good little resource. A bit overpriced for what you get, as many of the activities you can do with the paper/are on pinterest.
Christopher M –
Good resource.
Christopher M –
Good resource.
Kalee S –
This had a lot of great activities that I could use alongside the book. Thank you!
Nicole C –
Great activities
Daphne M –
Thanks for providing a motivating useful resource that students enjoyed.
Allison K –
This was a great resource! It went along with the book wonderfully and was a great way for me to assess student understanding.
Chelsea G –
We use Fantastic Elastic Brain at the beginning of every school year.
Whitney B –
Great resource on a topic that can be hard to find info on.
Ms Pea the LRT –
I used this with a grade 6 class. They were engaged but we did notice the colours did not line up with the colours in the book.
Michelle M –
Thank you for some fun activities for older students to go along with the younger set,
Daniele S –
This is a wonderful ressource that works really well with the book. I would have loved to see an answer key as some of the answers were a bit ambiguous. My students struggled to fill the Venn diagram about how a brain is like an elastic band. It would have been nice to have an answer key to help guide them.
Stephanie E –
I love to start the year with this read aloud and activity.
Meghan LaForce Stack –
I loved using this resource with my students to introduce some Mindfulness work for the school year. It gave the kids a sense of how their mind is not just about knowledge but about how we can change our reactions to situations.
Chantel McClarnen –
This was great to go with the book.
Dorothy J –
Awesome growth mindset activity!
Renee T –
Easy to implement activities to help introduce the concept of growth mindset. Hands on activity with elastic bands provided students with a great opportunity to collaborate at the beginning of the school year.
Bales Blockbusters –
Great for online group.
Heather Alexis –
Great compliment to the book! My students enjoyed being able to express their learning on paper after being online for so long. The variety sparked their brains!
Delsa T –
Awesome
Sarah K –
Great practice for my special education kiddos!!
dawn C –
Great resource! Very engaging!
Kaitlyn H –
The kids really enjoyed it!
Tiffany J –
This was a hit, even in 5th grade! My students were able to think about what they wanted to grow in and I was able to challenge them to not give up since their brain is always stretching!
Bailey Lawrence –
Perfect!
Elkine Irwin –
Thank you!
Sally H –
Easy to use and print out. Kids enjoyed them during independent learning!