Brain Breaks in 8th grade

Discover the joy of gratitude with our Gratitude Word Search - a delightful way to explore and express thankfulness!

Create your trading cards! Pack them with key info and cool visuals; they're perfect for quick brain breaks or post-assessment fun.

Get students exploring a new style of writing with a Comic Strip activity!

This blank comic strip template is great for getting creative with classroom assignments that require narrative structure, such as comic drawing and storyboard plotting.

Complete with three blank boxes for drawing, and speech and thought bubbles for dialogue; you'll be giving your students a fresh way to express their learning and understanding. Hello voice and choice!

Get students exploring a new style of writing with a Comic Strip activity!

This blank comic strip template is great for getting creative with classroom assignments that require narrative structure, such as comic drawing and storyboard plotting.

Complete with five blank boxes for drawing, and speech and thought bubbles for dialogue; you'll be giving your students a fresh way to express their learning and understanding. Hello voice and choice!

Create a positive and inspiring classroom environment with our Vision Board template. Encourage students to set goals, visualize success and stay motivated.

Create a positive and inspiring classroom environment with our Vision Board template. Encourage students to set goals, visualize success and stay motivated.

This vision board template provides learners with a calm, reflective space to consider how they want the year ahead to feel and what matters most to them.

Learners use a combination of text, drawing, comments, media, and explain tools to explore their sense of self, preferred pace, positive priorities, and overall intentions. The open-ended structure allows learners to move through the board in any order, supporting choice, agency, and personal expression.

This resource is well suited for wellbeing check-ins, tutor time, PSHE, or back-to-school reflection activities across year groups.

Create your own comic strip with our customizable template! Add your own characters, dialogue, and backgrounds for endless storytelling possibilities.

Create a positive and inspiring classroom environment with our Vision Board template. Encourage students to set goals, visualize success and stay motivated.

Create your own comic strip with our customizable template! Add your own characters, dialogue, and backgrounds for endless storytelling possibilities.

Create your own comic strip with our customizable template! Add your own characters, dialogue, and backgrounds for endless storytelling possibilities.

Whether it's for your history class or a simple brain break, your students will love this Hispanic Heritage Month Wordsearch. Looking for something to challenge your students vocabulary? Then this is the perfect choice!

Roll & Chat is a fun way to get talking with your students! Each time the die is rolled, you take turns rolling it and talking about the topic next to that number. It's an easy way to trigger great conversations with your students that you'll both enjoy.

Create your own comic strip with our customizable template! Add your own characters, dialogue, and backgrounds for endless storytelling possibilities.

Boost your students brain development with a simple game of chess!

Chess exercises both sides of the brain and requires a lot of “if this, then-that” scenarios, so students will have to imagine all the potential moves, alternatives and outcomes as they play.

Plus, chess is known to significantly improve visual memory and concentration, as well as reading and problem-solving skills.

Assign this template to students in pairs (try match one student who knows how to play with another who's yet to learn to test your students' ability to lead and follow).

An easy one to pick up – teach your students Chinese Checkers with this colorful template!

Give your class a new way to entertain themselves with this board game that promotes analytical thinking, problem solving, increased memory, and good sportsmanship.

Assign this template in groups of six and let the magic happen.