Back to School Activities at the start of the school year can be a fantastic opportunity to start a growth mindset in your students! You can start
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FREE Creative Thinking Lesson: Grow a Creative Mindset with “Twelve”
Click here to get the FREE Creative Thinking Lesson Plan right away. The answer is Twelve. What was the question? Take the following challenge: In 30 seconds, how many different questions can you come up with that have the answer twelve. (Watch the YouTube video to start the clock…) Creativity is MORE than just being […]
Humanagrams! FREE Class Teamwork Group Activity
Need a quick activity to do with your class? Why not play Humanagrams? Activity overview: Students try to combine letters in different ways to make words. There is a class set of 31 letters on regular paper (8.5” x 11”): 26 letters in the English alphabet, and each vowel has 2 copies. Learning objective: Practice […]
LOST AT SEA activity (FREE Critical Thinking Lesson Plans)
The Lost at Sea Activity is a fantastic team-building activity. Lost at Sea is a classic activity that can be found all across the Internet. We’ve adapted it in our CRITICAL THINKING lesson plans to help teachers introduce the idea of criterion based decision making Plus, we made the activity look visually appealing for school. […]
FREE Back to School Activity: Human Bingo (Communication Mini-Lesson)
Back to school’s around the corner and here’s a First Day of School activity to help your students get to know each other. Lots of teachers have used a human bingo graphic organizer as an icebreaker and a quick way to get students interacting with each other. Each square on the bingo card has a […]
Why aren’t you giving away FREE teaching resources?
Sharing is caring. Why don’t you give away all of your resources for free? This is an excellent, and important question. Let’s talk about why we charge a nominal fee for some of our lesson plans on our Educircles Teachers Pay Teachers store. As teachers, we care about our students, our program, and our school […]
Growth Mindset Lesson Plans and Resources to teach 6 Cs of Education
Do you need Growth Mindset Lesson Plans and Resources to help you teach the 6 Cs of Education (21st-century learning skills): Character, Citizenship, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, Critical Thinking? No problem, we got you! I don’t have time to read this. Jump to the Growth Mindset Lesson Plans / Resources catalogue Too long. Didn’t read. (Ironic […]
We are growing and learning all the time…
This page isn’t quite ready just yet. So why did we publish a blank page holder? Why not wait until it was completely done? Because sometimes, you just have to start. (Like this strategy here.) Every journey starts with a single step. And this is our first step. Every mighty tree starts from a single […]
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How to be More Creative! Lesson Plans for Elementary School & Middle School
GET THE RESOURCE: Teach Students HOW to be CREATIVE in any subject! How to be more Creative lesson plans should be in every teacher’s toolbox. Not just the art teacher’s. Are you worried about how to teach and assess CREATIVITY in your class?Do you hav …
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Effective Communication Lesson Plans: The BIG list of communication activities for students
Effective communication lesson plans help teachers provide communication process strategies to elementary, middle school, and high school students. We need to provide our children and students with 21st-century competencies / transferable learning skil …
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Collaboration Skills lesson plans: How to teach collaborative strategies
Collaboration skills and Teamwork skills are often used interchangeably, but they’re not the same thing! I used to think (and tell my students) that collaboration skills meant the same thing as teamwork skills and group work skills, but now that I’ve d …
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GROWTH MINDSET POSTERS (Version Française)
Download Entire Lesson English Version THIS IS THE FRENCH VERSION of our GROWTH MINDSET POSTERS: Character perseverance strategies that empower. We have translated our ENGLISH posters so that our French Immersion and Core French colleagues can use them …
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GROWTH MINDSET POSTERS PDF: Perseverance Bulletin Board Ideas
GET THE RESOURCE: Growth Mindset Posters PDF (ENGLISH) GROWTH MINDSET POSTERS in FRENCH VERSION FRANÇAISE Growth Mindset Posters PDF UPDATE Oct 13, 2019: We just finished our Growth Mindset 21st Century Competencies / Skills MEGA Bundle which includes …
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Good CITIZENSHIP lesson plans: equality vs equity diversity debates
Good Citizenship Lesson Plans UPDATE Sep 27, 2019: Sign up for our newsletter updates to get free lesson plans and the down-low on promotions. Figuring out how to build citizenship and teach students the difference between equal and fair is cool. Savin …
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Character Education Lesson Plans: Life skills, Advisory, Homeroom ideas
Character Education Lesson Plans UPDATE Sep 23, 2019: Sign up for our newletter updates to get FREE resources and to stay in the loop about special PROMOTIONS! Figuring out how to grow a growth mindset is cool. Saving money while doing it is even coole …
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Exploring the Six Cs – Lesson 1 Fun Activities and Icebreakers Intro
This lesson is a great way to introduce the 6 Cs of Education learning skills to your students and to set the tone for a year of growth mindset and perseverence: The Six Cs are a bunch of transferable skills that you can use at school, at home, at a jo …
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Exploring the 6 Cs of Education Unit – Overview Lesson
Exploring the 6 Cs of Education is a great way to kick off the new school year or school term. UNIT BIG IDEA By the end of this unit, students will be able to Understand / Explain the six Cs of Education and Deep Learning (Learning Skills): Character, …
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