Mindfulness activities for high school students

Mindfulness can help students focus and self-regulate. See how you can integrate mindfulness in the classroom with six simple activities. Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, your go-to source for educational technology and teaching innovation.

Practicing conscious breathing helps when you feel anxious and overwhelmed. A mindful breathing stick can help guide young kids develop breathing techniques.

This zentangle growth mindset project is one of my favorite activities for the beginning of the school year!

Getting to know you activities for middle school and high school students. These get to know you games are fun ice breakers for back to school and a new semester.

I love Morning Meetings with my sixth graders. Our typical Morning Meetings follow the structure from Responsive Classroom, but there are some days that we spend a lot longer on activities than others. Sprinkled throughout the year, I love to teach my students mind games. These mind games are ones that can only be done…

This free mindfulness activity for kids is perfect for your winter school counseling or SEL lessons. Kids will think about what mindfulness is, and identify mindful mantras they can use to feel more calm and focused. The completed crafts make great hallway or bulletin board displays!

Listen up! Pay attention! I wish I had a nickel for every time I said that in class. "Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply." - Stephen Covey When I started researching and exploring mindful practices, I realized that there are mindful activities that can help improve my student's listening skills. Yay! Since mindfulness is a state of active, open attention on the present, mindful listening skills help develop listening for…

This End of Year Escape Room Activity is the perfect project for middle and high school students. They will escape through a series of prompts regarding career readiness, growth mindset, goal setting and mindfulness! They'll reflect of the year and work with their classmates to escape this epic end of year activity for middle and high school students.

Here is a list of 20 low-cost mindfulness activities you can do every day to improve your mental health. While some mindfulness activities are expensive and out of reach, for example, going for therapy, many activities are low cost or completely free and you can practice them regardless of the income bracket you're in. Save the list and use it as inspo next time you want to do something for a calmer day.

In this blog, I'm sharing how I learned mindfulness as a teen because learning mindfulness is what taught me to be a confident and happy teen