Brain Breaks in 9th grade
St Patrick's Day Rainbow Maze
Hop your way through this rainbow maze on this St. Patrick's Day. The lucky pot at the end is filled with gold coins and treasures galore!
Comic Strip | Blank
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!
Find Someone Who Bingo Card
This Bingo card is designed to help students learn about their classmates and make new friends. Students can play the game during recess or whenever they have free time in class. The 12 squares on the bingo card are each labeled with a different attribute. This is a great way for students to learn about each other and build social skills!
Comic Strip | Blank with 3 Rectangles
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!
Polaroids Vision Board
Create a positive and inspiring classroom environment with our Vision Board template. Encourage students to set goals, visualize success and stay motivated.
Decorate Your Own Winter Sweater
Students can decorate their own winter sweaters with our template. Have a blast creating your own unique winter sweater with this fun activity.
Checkers
Try this simple boredom buster with your students – Checkers!
With trial and error, students will have fun learning that actions on the board have consequences and that each action needs some clear forethought. Students need to focus and pay attention, developing their concentration skills – if they want to win, they need to learn to concentrate and focus.
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).
Chutes & Ladders
Help develop your younger students' counting skills while having fun with Chutes and Ladders!
Playing the game gives students a chance to practice counting as they move their pieces back and forth in a repetitive nature. Plus, you're supporting their general arithmetic skills as they count how many places forward or back the snake or ladder has taken them.
Chutes and Ladders is a brilliantly simple board game fit for any age group, helping students learn as they play.
Also known as: Snakes & Ladders.
Vision Board | Notes
Create a positive and inspiring classroom environment with our Vision Board template. Encourage students to set goals, visualize success and stay motivated.
Letter to Myself for Students
Get your students to write a letter to themselves at the start of the new school year. This is a really easy way to share some powerful messages with them, and it's a great way to boost their confidence and motivation for the rest of their year.
Comic Strip | Blue & Red
Get students exploring a new style of writing with a Comic Strip activity!
This red and blue comic strip template is great for getting creative with classroom assignments that require narrative structure, such as comic drawing and storyboard plotting.
Complete with six 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!
Interactive Vision Board
Create a positive and inspiring classroom environment with our Vision Board template. Encourage students to set goals, visualize success and stay motivated.
Greetings Postcard
Send a message from anywhere with our "Greetings from..." postcard template.
Chess
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).
Comic Strip | Blue & Yellow
Get students exploring a new style of writing with a Comic Strip activity!
This blue and yellow 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!
Chinese Checkers
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.