The first week of morning mental exercises focusing on foundational critical thinking skills across various domains.
A comprehensive practice lesson on 6th grade ratio and percentage concepts including unit rates, proportions, and real-world money applications.
A comprehensive introduction to Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) where students learn to calculate and interpret the average distance of data points from the mean. Through hands-on practice with real-world data, students discover how MAD measures consistency and variability in a dataset.
The core lesson of the Brain Glitch series, introducing cognitive distortions as 'system glitches' and using a cooperative board game to teach students how to identify and debug them.
A mini-lesson on comparing two populations using measures of center (mean, median) and variability (IQR) based on CCSS 7.SP.4. Includes guided notes, practice problems, and a reference sheet.
The final curriculum review and introduction to Core Beliefs. Students synthesize their learning to create a 'Master Patch'—a set of balanced core beliefs for long-term mental resilience.
Addresses 'Emotional Reasoning' and 'Labeling'. Students learn to identify when their emotions are overwriting logic and how to strip away harmful labels from their self-identity.
Targets 'Catastrophizing' and 'Fortune Telling'. Students learn to stop the 'what if' spiral by assessing actual probabilities and creating contingency plans.
Explores 'Mind Reading' and 'Personalization'. Students act as signal decoders to separate actual social cues from glitched assumptions about what others are thinking.
Focuses on 'All-or-Nothing' thinking and 'Mental Filtering'. Students learn to identify binary thinking patterns and practice finding the 'gray area' between extremes.
