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How to Use Brain Benders September Brain Bender (with multiple intelligences listed on the calendar) September Brain Bender (without multiple intelligences listed) Thank you

How to Use Brain Benders

Thank you for your purchase! I hope that you find Brain Benders to be an extremely useful way to challenge the students in your classroom. It is important to model how to use Brain Benders for your class. Print one out and put it on the blackboard or overhead. You could also download the file and put it on the Smartboard if you have one. Each day, pick one of the Brain Benders for the month and have the students practice giving thoughtful, detailed answers. For example, one of the questions on Septembers Brain Bender is When is it hard to do the right thing? This would make for an excellent classroom discussion and show students how to give thorough answers to the Brain Benders rather than short answers with little depth. Brain Benders can be used any way you wish. You can

Send home a copy of each monthly Brain Bender with students to use as an enrichment activity at home. (I originally designed Brain Benders while working as a Gifted and Talented Resource Teacher.

I gave these to the classroom teachers to use this way and they were extremely popular!)
Use Brain Benders as a journal activity in the classroom. Simply glue or staple a copy of the appropriate months Brain Bender into each students journal. Students can then select the activity they wish to do each morning. I would suggest that students color in each square as they complete that activity. By allowing students free choice in picking a Brain Bender activity, the teacher also gains insight into where a students multiple intelligence strengths lie.

 Turn Brain Benders into a center activity during Language Arts. Students can keep a notebook dedicated to Brain Benders and then work on them whenever it is time for the Brain Bender Center.

Brain Benders are also available in a September June Pack. Download once and be set for the entire school year! Please follow me on TPT so that you know when I update my store with Brain Benders, critical thinking activities, lessons, and more. Enjoy!

~ Anne Wieder

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September Brain Benders

Create a bumper sticker for a school bus. Write a poem about summer fun. Use your crayons to decorate key words in the poem. What adjective most expresses your feelings about school? Tell why. Create a poster of your personal goals for the school year. Are you more like a flip flop or a beach ball?

(Verbal/Linguistic)
Create a jingle that tells why your class is the best.

(Verbal/Linguistic)

(Verbal/Linguistic)

(Intrapersonal)

(Intrapersonal)

(Interpersonal)

Listen to the sounds you hear during a five minute period. How many different sounds can you list?

Design and draw a rocket ship to take you and your friends into outer space. What would you bring?

When is it hard to do the right thing?

(Musical/Rhythmic)

(Visual/Spatial)

(Intrapersonal)

Ask a new friend to play with you during recess.

(Interpersonal)

Act out jobs such as lifeguarding and gardening that people do during the summer. Have your friends guess what you are acting out.

Create a poster showing how you spent your summer vacation.

(Visual/Spatial)

Design the craziest way to get to school that you can think of. Does it use elephants? Beach balls?

(Mathematical/Logical)

What is your favorite song right now? What makes it special to you?

Describe your first day of school.

(Intrapersonal)

(Verbal/Linguistic)

(Bodily/Kinesthetic)
List 5 rooms in your house. Put them in order from most important to least important.

(Mathematical/Logical)

Think of as many questions as you can that have school bus as the answer. Be creative!

(Verbal/Linguistic)

Survey 10 students by asking for their top two goals. How do you feel about the results? Were you surprised?

When you get home, act out the most interesting part of your school day.

(Mathematical/Logical)

(Bodily/Kinesthetic)

Look at a pair of scissors. How could you decorate them to make them wild and crazy?

(Visual/Spatial)

September Brain Benders

Create a bumper sticker for a school bus. Write a poem about summer fun. Use your crayons to decorate key words in the poem. Listen to the sounds you hear during a five minute period. How many different sounds can you list? What adjective most expresses your feelings about school? Tell why. Create a poster of your personal goals for the school year. Are you more like a flip flop or a beach ball?

Create a jingle that tells why your class is the best. Act out jobs such as lifeguarding and gardening that people do during the summer. Have your friends guess what you are acting out. List 5 rooms in your house. Put them in order from most important to least important.

Design and draw a rocket ship to take you and your friends into outer space. What would you bring?

When is it hard to do the right thing?

Ask a new friend to play with you during recess.

Create a poster showing how you spent your summer vacation.

Design the craziest way to get to school that you can think of. Does it use elephants? Beach balls?

What is your favorite song right now? What makes it special to you?

Describe your first day of school.

Think of as many questions as you can that have school bus as the answer. Be creative!

Survey 10 students by asking for their top two goals. How do you feel about the results? Were you surprised?

When you get home, act out the most interesting part of your school day.

Look at a pair of scissors. How could you decorate them to make them wild and crazy?

Thank you for taking the time to download my September Brain Benders. I have recently added the September June Brain Benders Pack to my store. If you like what you see, please leave me some feedback. Thank you! ~ Anne Wieder

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