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Growth Mindset Daily Warm-Up Activities: Growth Mindset Bell Ringers for 2nd-3rd Grade

These growth mindset bell ringers are perfect warm-ups for teachers looking for quick, easy-to-use, daily growth mindset instruction in the form of morning work or morning meetings.

This bell ringer journal includes 200 activities. It spans 40 weeks and will give you everything you need to teach your 2ND OR 3RD GRADE classroom about all things growth mindset! Please look at the thumbnails and preview to assess the appropriateness for your class.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE ARE 35 TOPICS WITH EXPLANATORY INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS ON EACH TOPIC. THERE WILL BE INSTRUCTION REQUIRED AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH WEEK TO INTRODUCE NEW VOCABULARY AND CONCEPTS. This provides a point of reference and a baseline of information for the given topic. This information can be found at the top of each week’s warm-up. There are also posters for each of the 35 topics.

The following topics are covered, week by week, in this full-year growth mindset bell ringer product:

1- Growth and Fixed Mindset
2- The Brain
3- Parts of the Brain
4- Neurons
5- Perseverance
6- Grit
7- Mistakes
8- Growth Mindset Self-Reflections
9- The Power of YET
10- Accepting Feedback and Criticism
11- Tackling Challenges
12- Overcoming Obstacles
13- Self-Talk
14- Positive and Negative Self-Talk
15- Perfection
16- Growth Mindset Self-Reflections
17- Metacognition: Self-Reflection
18- Metacognition: Distractions/Focus
19- SMART Goals
20- SMART Goals Application
21- Room to Grow
22- Failure
23- The Success of Others
24- Growth Mindset Self-Reflections
25- Motivation
26- Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation
27- Resilience
28- Malleability of the Brain
29- Improvement
30- Confidence
31- Positive Affirmations
32- Growth Mindset Self-Reflections
33- Commitment
34- Multiple Intelligences
35- Mindfulness
36- Self-Care
37- Reframe Your Mindset
38- Becoming Is Better Than Being
39- My Growth Mindset Agreements
40- Growth Mindset Self-Reflections

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING:

This product also includes 35 posters for a bulletin board that explains each topic above (as of 10/23/17, a black-and-white copy of these posters is also included). A pre-assessment and a post-assessment are also included as well as sample answers or notes for each activity.

This daily growth mindset activity product is for YOU if you struggle to squeeze in growth mindset instruction or don’t know how to teach it. Your students will get instruction in EVERY AREA of growth mindset with the topics covered!

Please look at the activities in this product to best determine how and when to utilize it in your class. Some students or groups can use them as a warm-up, bell ringer, or independent station activity. Other students or groups may need a bit more support depending on their exposure to growth mindset concepts.

There are SAMPLE ANSWERS available at the end of this file. There are rarely any “correct” answers, as most warm-ups are created for students to reflect on their thinking and growth. Occasionally, there will be a tip or trick in the sample answers. Those are there to guide you but should not be viewed as an exclusive or ultimate idea for approaching a topic.

35 posters correspond to each of the 35 concepts presented. Please note that there are 40 weeks of warm-ups, but 5 of those weeks are reserved for self-reflection (and there is NOT a corresponding poster for those weeks).

The growth mindset pre-assessment and post-assessment are designed as reflection tools. These are not designed to be graded or evaluated formally but used to reflect on changes in thinking and behavior (most of the questions are the same so that students have a clear way to compare shifts in their thinking).

The scaled questions with emojis on many Thursday exercises are designed for students to reflect on their feelings about the given topic. Students can share their thoughts with a partner, a small group, or the entire class. There are no incorrect answers for these exercises.

Each 8th week (Week 8, Week 16, Week 24, Week 32, and Week 40), there is an opportunity for students to reflect on their learning, their growth, and the areas they want to continue to work on. The inventory on these weeks will have statements that are REPEATED from previous weeks. It is a good idea to ask students to save their warm-ups for each 8 weeks so that they can compare some of their inventory answers (looking for growth, in particular).

At the very end of this product, you will find an OPTIONAL cover page and Table of Contents that you can use IF YOU CHOOSE TO BIND all the activities together for each student at the beginning of the year (or the beginning of the instruction). If you copy one sheet per week, your students will not need those pages.

NOTE: THIS FILE 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 PDF file includes 195 pages + Google Slides.