Growth Mindset Activities / Teaching Grit Activities / Reflection / Application

Description

GRIT and Growth Mindset are the hot topics in the classroom at the moment and for very good reason. However, most products, blog posts, and resources only discuss what it is, what it looks like, and the importance of it. This activity as well as the other GRIT challenges allow you to explicitly teach it. These activities are designed to make the students struggle, fail, and to experience the depths of the learning pit. By doing so you are able to pin point those emotions, and thoughts, and capitalize on them.

I introduce this activity the first week of school. A tough activity is the perfect discussion starter as to why it is so important we facilitate a growth mindset and know what GRIT is.

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• The Nitty Gritty Triangle Activity 1
• The Nitty Gritty Tangle Activity 2
• The Nitty Gritty Puzzler Activity 3
• The Nitty Gritty Confuzzler Activity 4
• The Nitty Gritty Scribbler Activity 5

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• The Nitty Gritty Nuisance Activity 6:
• The Big Scribb Whole Class Activity:

This product includes Grit Challenge #1: The Nitty Gritty Challenge.

Students will complete the Magic Math Triangle, where all digits along the perimeter of the triangle must add up to the given magic sum. There are two triangles with 4 possible magic sums totaling 8 activities! There is a signature section where you can require the student to get a signature from you, a classmate, or their own before moving on.

My favorite part of this product is the reflection sheet. Students identify an emotion on the learning pit that best illustrates where they were before the activity ended. This activity requires a minimum of 20 minutes per triangle. By no means will a student finish all 4 triangle challenges, however if you are short on time this will allow enough time for students to get the jist.

ANSWER KEY is included! Take each challenge a step further and see if the students can find multiple solutions per magic number Triangle. Great for critical and higher level thinking.

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