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Me!
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My name is
this is me!
FEELING GOOD
This is Carol. She's just learnt to climb to the top of
this climbing wall! How do you think she feels?
Surround her with describing words!
s adjectives.
these word
We call
FEELING NOT SO GREAT!
This is Ben. He thinks he's stupid because he doesn't
understand what he's been studying.
How might he feel? Surround him with adjectives...
MY BRAIN
The brain is the most important organ in the human
body.
It is the control centre for your body
and it is really complex.
It controls all of our actions and reactions, allows
us to think and feel and enables us to have
memories and emotions.
Your brain receives messages constantly from your
senses (seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching and
moving).
These messages travel from your nerve cells all over
the body along nerve fibres to the brain.
Your brain sorts through all this information
and manages to think, remember, create, compare, solve
problems and plan your actions all at the same time!
It's still working while you're asleep!
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PARTS OF THE BRAIN
The cerebral cortex is the outer layer of the cerebrum
which is the largest part of the brain. It can be divided
into
four sections, which are known as lobes.
THE CEREBRAL CORTEX
Frontal lobe Parietal lobe
Occipital
lobe
Temporal Cerebellum
lobe
Brain stem
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HOW YOUR BRAIN WORKS
Different parts of the brain are responsible for
different functions.
The parietal lobe processes sensory information like
touch and taste. It also helps us to process language
and mathematics
The frontal lobe helps you to make decisions
and problem solve.
The temporal lobe is involved in memory, emotions
and speech.
The occipital lobe helps you
understand
what your are seeing.
The cerebellum receives information and tells
your body how to move.
The brain stem controls the messages between
the brain and the rest of the body. It also your
controls basic body functions like breathing,
swallowing and heart rate.
BRAIN FUNCTIONS
Use the information on the previous pages to label
this brain and write the actions and functions in the
correct part of the brain.
dancing feeling pain feeling happy tasting choosing shoes
solving a problem remembering breathing blood pressure
heart rate counting surfing talking
WHAT IS A GROWTH MINDSET?
Record everything you know about a growth mindset?
What does
growth mean? What is a 'mindset'?
What do you think a
'growth mindset' is?
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A GROWTH MINDSET
When you have a growth mindset you understand that
your brain can get smarter...it just takes strategy,
practice and effort.
It starts with how you talk to yourself.
INSTEAD OF TRY THIS...
SAYING...
I can't do this. I give up! What can I do to solve this?
I'm going to figure out how he
I'm just not smart like him.
does that.
I'm so good at this.
I understand what I'm doing.
NOW YOU TRY...
This is so easy!
I'm never going to understand.
I'm afraid I'll get it wrong.
THINK POSITIVELY
Help these people to think helpful thoughts...
I've always been
terrible at this!
I did it all
wrong...I just
can't do it.
It's not fair...he's
so much cleverer
than me.
I'm never going to
understand this...
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STYLES OF LEARNING
Some people think that there are four types of learners.
Most people are a mix of two or three of these styles.
Record some examples for each style of learning...
Visual learners like to see information like
VISUAL
graphs and pictures.
watching a YouTube video
Auditory learners learn while listening.
AUDITORY
Reading and writing learners learn best if
READING +
they can read the information.
WRITING
KINESTHETIC
Kinesthetic learners like to get involved.
They learn best by doing.
building a cube with magnets
HOW I LEARN BEST
Record below how you like to learn. Start with the learning styles
and then break it down into learning activities.
MEET YET THE YETI...
Yet the Yeti loves making mistakes because he knows
that problem solving helps to make his brain stronger.
He knows that he just can't do it YET!
Tell Yet some things that you can't do YET...
I can't.........................................yet.
...............................................................
...............................................................
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MAKING AN EFFORT
When something is challenging we need to make an effort if we want
to succeed. Think about a time when you put in a lot of effort...can
you
think of any times when you've made less of an effort.
Exceptional effort!
ce , is the key
Zero effort or intelligen
not streng th
ton Ch urchill
effort, s
tinu ou s tenti al.” - Win
“Con cking our po
to un lo
Now, on a seperate sheet of paper, design a poster to show
what making an effort means.
HELP TO SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS
Once we understand what the problem is we can begin to solve it...
I keep falling of my bike. I don't understand some of I can't draw this picture of a
the words in my new book. dinosaur.
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THINGS I WANT TO LEARN
So, now you know that your brain is powerful
enough to learn whatever you want it to learn!
Write down some things that you'd like to learn
in the future...
WHAT'S MY GOAL
Choose a goal and work out how you'll achieve it.
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