This research-based curriculum features 15 lessons that use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behavior and learning for all students. Each lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop a positive mind-set in both school and life. The lessons fit easily into any schedule and require minimal preparation. Classroom management tips and content-area activities help you extend the benefits of MindUP throughout your day, week, and year!

Includes a full-color, innovative teaching poster with fascinating facts about the brain!

• Transforms classrooms into focused learning environments
• Helps teachers motivate at-risk learners so each child can thrive—academically, socially, and emotionally
• Kids love learning about how their brains work—and how they can help their brains grow!
• Includes high-interest activities to connect MindUP learning to all content areas
• Fosters a cohesive, caring classroom climate that enhances learning
• Correlates with the social and emotional learning goals created by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

Brain-Focused Strategies for Learning

By The Hawn Foundation

Research-based and tested in dozens of classrooms
This research-based curriculum features 15 lessons that use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behavior and learning for all students. Each lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop a positive mind-set in both school and life. The lessons fit easily into any schedule and require minimal preparation. Classroom management tips and content-area activities help you extend the benefits of MindUP throughout your day, week, and year. Includes a BIG, colorful teaching poster with fascinating facts about the brain!

160 pages + poster 8 3/8 x 10 7/8
Grades 6-8

• 160 pages + poster
• Grade 6 thru 8
• 8-3/8 width
• 10-7/8 length

This research-based curriculum features 15 lessons that use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behavior and learning for all students. Each lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop a positive mind-set in both school and life. The lessons fit easily into any schedule and require minimal preparation. Classroom management tips and content-area activities help you extend the benefits of MindUP throughout your day, week, and year!

Includes a full-color, innovative teaching poster with fascinating facts about the brain!

• Transforms classrooms into focused learning environments
• Helps teachers motivate at-risk learners so each child can thrive—academically, socially, and emotionally
• Kids love learning about how their brains work—and how they can help their brains grow!
• Includes high-interest activities to connect MindUP learning to all content areas
• Fosters a cohesive, caring classroom climate that enhances learning
• Correlates with the social and emotional learning goals created by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

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Help fifth grade students improve critical-thinking and reasoning skills with fun and effective daily practice activities.

180 Days of Problem Solving:
• Focuses on one skill each week so students can learn the problem-solving process, use visual models, and solve multi-step, non-routine word problems
• Builds student's confidence in problem solving skills with quick daily independent learning activities
• Makes at-home learning, whole class instruction, or small group support, quick and easy
• Includes standards-based activities, easy to follow instructions, and an answer key to quickly assess student understanding

Parents appreciate the teacher-approved activity books that keep their child engaged and learning. Great for homeschooling, to reinforce learning at school, or prevent learning loss over summer.

Teachers rely on the daily practice workbooks to save them valuable time. The ready to implement activities are perfect for daily morning review or homework. The activities can also be used for intervention skill building to address learning gaps.

• Students will use visual representations, and analyze various approaches to solving routine and non-routine problems
• Weekly lesson plan equips teachers with a thematic unit that focuses on a standards-aligned skill
• Throughout the unit week, easy-to-use lessons outline activities to boost critical thinking skills with multi-step, higher-level problems
• Pages: 224

Take your students on a year-round problem-solving adventure with thematic units that hone in on the key skills needed to meet today's standards. With the changes in mathematics standards, teachers need a tool to help them implement lessons that provide a deeper understanding of math concepts. 180 Days of Problem Solving gives teachers daily opportunities to go beyond routine word problems to strengthen reasoning skills with practice that shows how these skills apply in real-life situations. Aligned with national standards, this comprehensive workbook prepares students for college and career.

• Students will use visual representations, and analyze various approaches to solving routine and non-routine problems
• Weekly lesson plans equip teachers with a thematic unit that focuses on a standards-aligned skill
• Throughout the unit week, easy-to-use lessons outline activities to boost critical thinking skills with multi-step, higher-level problems
• Pages: 216

Help fourth grade students improve critical-thinking and reasoning skills with fun and effective daily practice activities.

180 Days of Problem Solving:
• Focuses on one skill each week so students can learn the problem-solving process, use visual models, and solve multi-step, non-routine word problems
• Builds student's confidence in problem solving skills with quick daily independent learning activities
• Makes at-home learning, whole class instruction, or small group support, quick and easy
• Includes standards-based activities, easy to follow instructions, and an answer key to quickly assess student understanding

Parents appreciate the teacher-approved activity books that keep their child engaged and learning. Great for homeschooling, to reinforce learning at school, or prevent learning loss over summer.

Teachers rely on the daily practice workbooks to save them valuable time. The ready to implement activities are perfect for daily morning review or homework. The activities can also be used for intervention skill building to address learning gaps.

• Students will use visual representations, and analyze various approaches to solving routine and non-routine problems
• Weekly lesson plan equips teachers with a thematic unit that focuses on a standards-aligned skill
• Throughout the unit week, easy-to-use lessons outline activities to boost critical thinking skills with multi-step, higher-level problems

Help third grade students improve critical-thinking and reasoning skills with fun and effective daily practice activities.

180 Days of Problem Solving:
• Focuses on one skill each week so students can learn the problem-solving process, use visual models, and solve multi-step, non-routine word problems
• Builds student's confidence in problem solving skills with quick daily independent learning activities
• Makes at-home learning, whole class instruction, or small group support, quick and easy
• Includes standards-based activities, easy to follow instructions, and an answer key to quickly assess student understanding

Parents appreciate the teacher-approved activity books that keep their child engaged and learning. Great for homeschooling, to reinforce learning at school, or prevent learning loss over summer.

Teachers rely on the daily practice workbooks to save them valuable time. The ready to implement activities are perfect for daily morning review or homework. The activities can also be used for intervention skill building to address learning gaps.

• Students will use visual representations, and analyze various approaches to solving routine and non-routine problems
• Weekly lesson plan equips teachers with a thematic unit that focuses on a standards-aligned skill
• Throughout the unit week, easy-to-use lessons outline activities to boost critical thinking skills with multi-step, higher-level problems

Take your students on a year-round problem-solving adventure with thematic units that hone in on the key skills needed to meet today's standards. With the changes in mathematics standards, teachers need a tool to help them implement lessons that provide a deeper understanding of math concepts. 180 Days of Problem Solving gives teachers daily opportunities to go beyond routine word problems to strengthen reasoning skills with practice that shows how these skills apply in real-life situations. Aligned with national standards, this comprehensive workbook prepares students for college and career.

• Students will use visual representations, and analyze various approaches to solving routine and non-routine problems
• Weekly lesson plans equip teachers with a thematic unit that focuses on a standards-aligned skill
• Throughout the unit week, easy-to-use lessons outline activities to boost critical thinking skills with multi-step, higher-level problems
• Pages: 216

Help second grade students improve critical-thinking and reasoning skills with fun and effective daily practice activities.

180 Days of Problem Solving:
• Focuses on one skill each week so students can learn the problem-solving process, use visual models, and solve multi-step, non-routine word problems
• Builds student's confidence in problem solving skills with quick daily independent learning activities
• Makes at-home learning, whole class instruction, or small group support, quick and easy
• Includes standards-based activities, easy to follow instructions, and an answer key to quickly assess student understanding

Parents appreciate the teacher-approved activity books that keep their child engaged and learning. Great for homeschooling, to reinforce learning at school, or prevent learning loss over summer.

Teachers rely on the daily practice workbooks to save them valuable time. The ready to implement activities are perfect for daily morning review or homework. The activities can also be used for intervention skill building to address learning gaps.

• Students will use visual representations, and analyze various approaches to solving routine and non-routine problems
• Weekly lesson plans equip teachers with a thematic unit that focuses on a standards-aligned skill
• Throughout the unit week, easy-to-use lessons outline activities to boost critical thinking skills with multi-step, higher-level problems
• Pages: 224