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Khan Academy: Final Student Activity
The Growth Mindset Activities are designed to help your students build growth mindsets and develop learning strategies to start the school year strong. This is the final activity to help you remember what you learned and help your...
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Khan Academy: Exercising My Brain
This article gives some examples of how your brain grows when you learn new things.
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Khan Academy: Mistakes Can Be Harmful Too
This article explains three common ways we allow mistakes to hurt our learning process.
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Khan Academy: Mistakes Can Be Good if We Learn From Them!
Mistakes are a natural part of the learning process, and how we react to them can be either harmful or helpful. Listen as kids discuss their experiences with mistakes.
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Khan Academy: Connect: Keep Going Keep Growing
This activity will help students understand why working through frustration will help them grow.
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Khan Academy: Reflect: The Path Forward
This activity asks students to reflect on what they have learned from the Growth Mindset activities.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Time Capsule Show What You Know
Students will assemble a time capsule full of tidbits of information they feel would be useful for the next class to study and learn successfully.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Count the Vowels
Young scholars are given a list of words and told to count the vowels and turn the sheet over. They are then asked to list the words. In this exercise, students discover how the words are arranged and find it easy to remember them.
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Learning Theory: Reinforcement
This site has a nice discussion on the nature and use of reinforcement in learning theory. Describes the four major types of reinforcement and also the use of reinforcement schedules.