Growing Your Brain! Showing GRIT Understanding the Power of Yet Having a Growth Mindset Eve Coates

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1 Growing Your Brain! Showing GRIT Understanding the Power of Yet Having a Growth Mindset 2014 Eve Coates

2 When You didn t you were know a anything baby, do when you think you you were born a baby! smart?

3 The only way you were able to get smarter was to do... Things Doing hard things shows you have GRIT!

4 When you first walked, it was But as you practiced, your body grew stronger until it was easy!

5 The When It more works you you learn the try same to learn with things, your your things,! the more your grows. grows! That s the Power of Yet! You might not know things right away and that is OK!

6 What It do would you think probably your fall brain asleep! would do if you only did easy things all the time? Your does NOT grow if you only do easy things.

7 What But if when she didn t your quit, teacher and thought her She STILL wouldn t know how to reading grew! read! was Now too reading hard is and easy quit? for her. It was hard at It s first too and hard! I didn t I know quit! it YET then it got easier Your does NOT grow if you quit too soon!

8 Doing things that are doesn t just grow your brain, it s also more FUN! Let s try an experiment to show you that things can be more FUN than easy things.

9 Click on the triangle. Great job! You found the triangle!

10 Click on the triangle. That s right! You found the triangle!

11 Which one things one was was grows more your FUN?? Doing Which one took longer to solve? AND it s more FUN! The 1 st one? Or the 2 nd one?

12 It s right here! What Your if someone wouldn t had shown have a you chance the triangle to grow! before you had a chance to find it yourself? Your does NOT grow if someone tells you the answer before you have time to think!

13 Sometimes we know an answer right away. That s easy! It s 2!

14 Sometimes you have to think a while because you don t know the answer YET. Hmm I ll have Oh! I know! to think about It s 10! this one.

15 Because If you don t it means know you an answer are doing right something away, that and can your be a good is thing! growing! Why? The Power of YET

16 Some people think mistakes are bad. But mistakes can be good! I Really? made a Why mistake. are I must mistakes not be good? smart.

17 If you You never need make to challenge ANY mistakes, your that means you are doing things that are TOO easy. I m bored. I want a challenge!

18 When you can find your mistake and explain how to fix it, that is when your grows the most! Let s practice growing our by fixing mistakes. See if you can find the mistakes these children made, then explain why they made that mistake and how to fix it.

19 Let s They fix Why probably the do mistake! you thought think What What they is it the was would made mistake? a subtraction be this the mistake? correct problem answer? instead of an addition problem!

20 To, Let s too, fix Why and the do two mistake! you all think What sound What they is the would made same, mistake? be this but the mistake? they correct are spelling? spelled differently. They must have picked the wrong spelling!

21 Let s They fix Why must the do have mistake! you counted think What What they is 1 the would cent made mistake? for be this each the mistake? correct dime, but amount? that s not how much dimes are worth!

22 That s Click too on easy. which Let s Our shape practice below didn t growing comes grow. our next Let s in try the! a pattern. one!

23 Click on which shape comes next in the pattern. Well done! Your grew! Let s try another!

24 That s too easy. Click Our on which word didn t is grow. spelled Let s right. try a one! sun kslkasdjzk

25 Click on which word is spelled right. Great job! Your nite grew! nigt Let s try another! night nit knite nighte

26 Click on the girl with the red dress. That s too easy. Our didn t grow. Let s try a one!

27 Click on the girl with the red dress, brown hair, pig tails, and purple shoes. Great job! Your grew!

28 What Let s does see if your remember do if you what only we do learned easy things about all your the time?. Click on the answer below. sleep Great! Let s try another! grow

29 When does your grow the most? Click on the answer below. Correct! Let s try another! When you never make mistakes. When you find and fix mistakes.

30 When does your NOT grow? Click on the answer below. You ve done a good job learning about your. That s right! Now see how much you can grow your today! When you make mistakes. When you quit too soon. When you try hard things.

31 Believing your brain can grow smarter by trying hard things means you have a Growth Mindset

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