An essential download for any teacher or leader hoping to help create self-regulating learners who can make informed choices about how they live in order to boost learning-power.
This essential resource pack consists of six engaging 40-60 minute learning sessions designed to teach students how their lifestyle choices impact brain health and learning power. Covering topics such as hydration, sleep, nutrition, exercise, mental health, and emotional well-being, each session connects these factors to metacognition and self-regulated learning. Through presentations, activities, and worksheets, students are encouraged to monitor, evaluate, and regulate their lifestyle habits to optimise brain development and enhance learning capacity. Ideal for PSHE lessons, this pack empowers students to make informed, healthy choices that support their academic and personal growth.
How can we expect our students to reap the benefits of a ‘growth mindset’ unless we teach them how ensure their brain is developing and growing to its full potential? How can we expect our students to reach their full learning-capacity unless they know how best to take care of their brain and its development?
We made a massive array of resources to foster self-regulated learning and metacognition but we kept coming back to a stark reality: many students live lifestyles that hinder brain-development and, unless we can help them to make choices that nurture brain-development instead, then their ability to succeed will be limited.
This collection of six learning sessions (each lasting 40-60 minutes) includes an exciting array of presentations, activities and worksheets on the following topics:
- What Your Brain Needs to Develop
- Water & Metacognition
- Sleep & Metacognition
- Nutrition for Brain Development & Boosting
- Exercise, Fitness & Metacognition
- Emotions, Mental Health & Metacognition
Each session focuses on how different lifestyle choices and factors impact their learning power both in the short-term and the long-term. Students are encouraged to connect learning to their own lives: monitoring, evaluating and regulating their own lifestyle choices with a view to enhancing brain-health and learning-power.
Download this unique resource-pack to enhance your school’s PSHE provision and create a solid foundation for the enhancement of learning power. All learning is underpinned by the health of the brain and nervous system: it is therefore essential that we teach young people how best to take care of it and give them an opportunity to monitor, evaluate and regulate the lifestyle and health choices that impact their learning-power.
Perhaps the most powerful self-regulated learning strategy of all is the maintenance of good physical, mental and neurological health. Download this resource today and help your students take better care of their brains!
This resource is a powerful addition to your school's approach to nurturing effective learners because it:
- Teaches students the connection between lifestyle choices and brain health, fostering better learning outcomes.
- Encourages self-regulated learning by promoting the monitoring, evaluation, and regulation of health and lifestyle habits.
- Covers essential topics such as nutrition, sleep, hydration, exercise, and mental health, ensuring a holistic approach to learning power.
- Provides engaging, ready-to-use resources to support PSHE education and long-term student well-being.
- Empowers students to take responsibility for their physical, mental, and neurological health, reinforcing the foundation for lifelong learning success.
Boosting Brain Power! (Health & Lifestyle)
Focus: Increasing Learning Power, Metacognition, Self-Regulated Learning, Brain Health & Development, Growth Mindset, Healthy Living
Main Aim: To teach students how to enhance brain-power (and learning power) through improved lifestyle choices & healthy living
Designed for students aged 11-16License Terms:
Whole-School LicenseSystem Requirements:
Microsoft Office
WinZip (we recommend: 7-Zip or WinRar)
Windows 7+, 1.5GHZ, 1GB RAM
File Formats: .doc (Microsoft Word), PowerPoint Presentations & .zipPrinting Information:
Contains both A4 & A3 [US Size: Tabloid / Ledger (ANSI B)] printablesCopyrighted by The Global Metacognition Institute (2019)
Strictly not for re-distribution outside of your own school.