Mindfulness and Yoga Prompt Cards

About

Open Up and WQED Education co-created these educational resource cards for educators to use in their classrooms to help students get centered throughout the day. Daily whole-group use of these tools during transition times will help members of the community build self-awareness, feel more willing to use these tools in times of need, and be more aware of one another’s needs

Explain the mind body connection in a simple way by showing the video where a hand model of the brain is used as a visual cue, appropriate for people of all ages.

Credits: Video created by Open Up Pgh, Tessa Karel. Cards co-created by Tessa Karel and Rachel Sew

Standards

• Begin peer interaction while managing emotional arousal
• Stay connected with adults
• Understand basic emotional expressions, situations, and experiences—and ways to manage them (often with adult assistance), along with early efforts to solve interpersonal problems
• Begin to follow social rules, like taking turns
• Control aggressive impulses
• Demonstrate emotional regulation within the peer group, showing emotions in appropriate contexts
• Resolve more complex social difficulties with a flexible variety of solutions