Learning Strategies
Middle School Grab Bag
The Brain
EF Skills
Study Skills Grab Bag
100

This is when you ask for the help you need from a teacher.

What is self-advocacy?

100

This is what GTD stands for.

What is Get Things Done?

100

This controls your involuntary body functions like breathing and digestion.

What is the brain stem?

100

This is one strategy for tracking your upcoming tests, projects, and assignments.

What is using a planner, google calendar, or notes app?

100

This is one of our class norms.

Answers will vary.

200

This is something we ask you to organize each day.

What is your planner, agenda, or Google Calendar?

200

A hexagon is a polygon. True or False?

True!

200

This controls your coordination and movement.

What is the cerebellum?

200

When you believe you can improve, change, and get better at something.

What is a growth mindset?

200

Mrs. Englert's favorite candy.

What are twizzlers?

300

These are three different ways you can study for a test or quiz.

What are. . .answers will vary. (We will decide if your answer is correct.)

300
This is the second Wednesday schedule.

What is 7, 6, 5, 8?

300
This controls your memory and recall.

What is the hippocampus?

300

These are the names for items that are a "must do" in your priorities activity jar that you make time for first in your day or week.

What are rock priorities?

300

Four of the eight types of ways you can be smart.

What are math, visual, word, music, people, self, body, and nature?

400

A strategy for reading and interacting with the text where you add notes, symbols, and colors to enhance your understanding of what you have read.

What is annotation or annotating?

400

234,567 divided by 10

What is 23,456.7?

400

This controls your emotions.

What is the amygdala?

400

This is where the Week at a Glance is located.

What is on Toddle, under the notification bell or announcements, and within an email from Mrs. Edwards?

400

This part of the brain controls listening, seeing, hearing, and speaking.

What is the cerebrum?

500

This is a strategy where you work in 10 minute chunks. You often used this at the end of Study Skills classes.

What is time blocking?

500

A bag contains 6 yellow marbles, 3 red marbles, and 8 blue marbles.

  • What is the ratio of red marbles to all the marbles in the bag? 


  • Red to all: The total number of marbles is 6 + 3 + 8 = 17. The ratio of red marbles to all marbles is 3:17.
500

This controls your decision-making and executive functioning skills. It does not fully develop until the age of 27 or so.

What is the prefrontal cortex?

500

When you reflect on a mistake and think about how you can do things differently, it sparks in your brain in a _______ _________.

What is a second flash?

500

This is the name of the starter activity we use to transition into class.

What is Hidden Pictures?

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