Warm Up Games, Brain Teasers, and Brain Breaks – Perfect for Zoom
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Ready to get your students’ brains “bursting” with new skills? Brain Bursts are fun and creative activities designed to improve learning and memory.
Set 2 of this popular resource includes 9 types of Brain Bursts with over 100 different activities. Each one is designed to help improve memory encoding, information processing, and listening comprehension. Since each activity is designed to take a short amount of time, they work great as warm-ups, lesson extenders, or enrichment activities.
The best part? Your students will have so much fun taking on each of these challenges that they will not even realize they are learning!
Great news! This resource requires NO PREP and NO COPIES! That means that it is very versatile! Use Brain Bursts in a variety of ways:
- Warm-Ups
- Lesson Extenders
- Listening Comprehension Centers
- Before or After Tests/Quizzes
- Remote Learning – completed with a video conferencing platform
- Test Prep (especially listening comprehension)
- Enrichment Activities
Purpose of Brain Bursts
Brain Bursts are designed to activate students’ brains while building critical skills. These activities address:
- Listening comprehension
- Reasoning
- Creative Thinking
- Inferring
- Classifying
- Spatial skills
- Following verbal directions
- Flexible thinking
- Originality
- Recall
- Classification
- Reasoning
- Brainstorming
- Creative writing
- Sentence structure
- Categorizing
- Vocabulary
Brain Bursts Included:
- WHAT’S THE LINK?: Students listen to a list of seemingly random words, and they must find a way to link them together.
- NAME THAT ANIMAL: Students listen to clues and guess the animal that is described.
- LISTEN & DRAW: Students listen and respond to mini-passages while creating a coordinating illustration.
- HOW MANY?: Students must race the clock to list as many items that belong in a single category as they can.
- ONCE UPON A TIME: Students listen to the way a story ends, and they must write how the story could have begun.
- MIXED-UP SENTENCES: Students listen to sentences with words out of order. Then, they work to put the sentences in the correct order.
- DOODLE CHALLENGES: Students take on doodle tasks that challenge them to be creative in new ways.
- COMMON THREADS: Students must think creatively as they write down 3 common threads between an unlikely pair of objects.
- FUNKY FACTS: Students need to listen carefully as they follow directions to alter a funky fact into a legitimate fact.
This resource includes:
- Detailed teacher guide
- Brain Bursts Overview with skills and time
- Detailed Lesson for each Brain Burst – Includes overview, directions, and extension ideas
- 9 Different Types Brain Burst Activities
- 100+ Different Brain Burst Activities
- All Answer Keys
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