The Brain
What is our wise owl called?
Name three things you can mindfully hear right now.
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Name one way you practice mindfulness.
Examples:
- reading
- getting good sleep
Crossing the street without looking both ways.
Unmindful
What is our barking dog called?
Amygdala
Name three things you can notice about how your body is feeling right now?
Examples:
- tired
- hungry
- how your body feels on the chair
How can you be mindful at school?
Examples:
- mindfully listing to teacher
- being mindful of classmates feelings
Taking a walk when you start to feel you're getting angry or upset.
Mindful
What are the three parts of the brain we have been focusing on?
Amygdala, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex
Name 3 things you can hear right now.
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True or false: Mindfulness is only for MindUP time in the classroom.
False: Mindfulness is for all day everyday, no matter where we are or what we're doing!
Listening to someone when they're speaking.
Mindful
What does the amygdala do?
- regulate emotions
- brains security guard
- react to fear, danger, and threats
- fight, flight, freeze
Name a way you have been mindfully aware recently.
Example:
- mindfully listened to a friends favourite song
True or False: I will never be unmindful, being unmindful is bad.
False: We are all unmindful sometimes! We are still good people, we can kindly call our brains back to mindfulness.
inviting someone to join your game.
Mindful
What does the hippocampus do?
- stores memories and learning
- helps to manage our response to fear
What are the ways our brain takes in information about what is around us? Hint: What are our 5 senses?
- sight
- taste
- smell
- touch
- hearing
Which is NOT an example of mindfulness?
1. Taking a bath.
2. Feeding our bodies.
3. Judging someone else's food cause it looks different then ours.
4. Trying a new food even if it looks different.
3. Judging someone else's food cause it looks different then ours.
Staying up late watching a movie when you have school in the morning.
Unmindful