Gratitude & Community
This is one small thing you could feel grateful for today.
What is a friend/food/pet/home/etc.
This word means who you are, including your interests, culture, and values.
What is Identity
This is how your heart might feel when you are feeling scared or excited.
What is Beating Fast
These are the 4 common responses our body might have when we experience intense emotions/flip our lid.
What is Fight, Flight, Freeze and Faun
This is the simple hand model created by Dr. Dan Siegel that explains how your brain works during emotional moments like flipping your lid.
What is the Hand Model of the Brain
This is one daily habit you could use to grow your gratitude “muscle.”
What is writing down or saying aloud three things I'm grateful for each day
This word means feeling like you are accepted and you fit in with a group
What is Belonging
This is one calm-down strategy you can use when you notice big feelings in your body.
What is Deep Breathing/Mindfulness/Taking a Break/Talking to an Adult
This part of the brain (often called the “guard dog”) reacts to danger and helps with fight, flight, or freeze.
What is the Amygdala
This is one physical sign that you might have flipped your lid (name any one).
What is a racing heart, clenched fists, tense muscles, shaky hands, hot face, or a tight feeling in my chest or stomach
This word means making sure everyone feels welcome, no matter who they are.
What is Inclusion
These are the ideas and beliefs that help you decide what is right and wrong.
What are values
This is one healthy way and one unhealthy way people sometimes cope with strong emotions.
What is a healthy way is talking to someone, journaling, or exercising; an unhealthy way is hurting yourself, hurting others, or avoiding everything
This part of the brain (often called the “wise owl”) helps you plan, make good decisions, and control impulses.
This “superpower” lets you imagine how someone else might be feeling in a situation.
What is Empathy
This is what you can do during group work if someone’s idea is different from yours.
What is listen, ask questions, and try to understand before disagreeing
This is the term for how you see yourself in your mind, including your strengths and weaknesses.
What is self-image or self-concept
This is the difference between reacting and responding to a strong emotion.
What is reacting is doing the first thing that comes to mind, while responding is pausing to choose what you do or say
This is what we call it when our guard dog takes over and we lose control of our big emotions.
What is "Flipping Your Lid"
This is the 4 F's stress response where your body locks up and you can't move, speak, or act—like when a teacher calls on you unexpectedly and your mind goes completely blank, even though you know the answer inside.
What is Freeze Response
This is what gratitude is not.
What is pretending everything is perfect or ignoring your real feelings just to 'be positive'
This is the difference between “fitting in” and “belonging” in a community.
What is fitting in means changing yourself to be accepted, while belonging means being accepted as you are
This is one example of turning an unhelpful thought into a more helpful one when you feel overwhelmed.
What is changing ‘I’ll never get this’ to ‘This is hard, but I can improve if I keep practicing or ask for help’
In each of these situations, which part of the brain is doing most of the work: the amygdala, the hippocampus, or the prefrontal cortex?
a) Your heart races and you instantly want to yell after someone bumps into you in the hallway.
b) You remember exactly what you studied for last week’s science quiz.
c) You pause, take a breath, and decide to talk it out instead of starting a fight.
What is a) Amygdala (quick emotional reaction), b) Hippocampus (memory), c) Prefrontal cortex (thinking and decision‑making).
This is a powerful word that promotes a growth mindset. You can put at the end of a statement like "I can't do math" to help your brain stay hopeful and agentic instead of giving up.
What is Yet