Growth Mindset Links to Help Kids (& Adults) Succeed

• The first is a really good introduction cartoon to the idea of Growth Mindset:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUWn_TJTrnU

• This intro cartoon made by Class Dojo is just one 1 of 5 and is perfect for kids to watch:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zrtHt3bBmQ

• Even Sesame Street has some segments on Growth Mindset. This video is their “Don’t Give Up” song with Bruno Mars and skits.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnrHZ_uvtxk

Finally, here are two Boom Learning decks I made to reinforce growth mindset lessons during independent center or morning work time, while also having kids work on keyboarding skills! You can get them separately or as a bundle on TpT. They are perfect for independent time/centers. In each deck, students practice typing letters and punctuation from a model, as well as using the shift key to capitalize letters.

I encourage you to go to the links and play before you pay! Be sure to try them out by clicking on the links below. Once you click through, choose “Full-sized Preview” to preview the first four cards of the deck with sound. You can also watch a video of how the activity works below.

The first deck of Boom Cards, “Positive Self-Talk” will help reinforce your growth mindset lessons as your students practice typing/keyboarding skills.

  

The second deck, “Say This Instead,” helps kids come up with growth mindset phrases that replace the fixed mindset phrases “I don’t get it,” and “I don’t know.” Again, they will type the growth mindset sentences from a model.  If you want your kids to practice both decks, get the bundle here.

Hopefully, this blog post has given you ideas on how to use videos and technology to extend and enrich your Growth Mindset lessons. Please keep reading below or read my other posts about Boom Learning to see how it works.

 

Boom Cards can be played on an interactive whiteboard, tablet, smartphone, laptop, etc. using the internet or free “Boom Cards” app. Kids get immediate feedback and teacher can get automatic grading, collect data on speed, accuracy via reports. Teachers won’t have to prep, print or laminate! They are perfect for the 1:1 classroom, put at a center, or even use whole class projected on a screen or SmartBoard.