EXECUTIVE FUNCTION & BRAIN GAME – Neuroscience Whole Brain Emotional Regulation

Are you looking for an engaging way to help students understand executive functioning skills, focus, planning, and how the brain helps us think, organize, and make decisions? Executive Function Brain Game is our interactive digital PowerPoint game designed to help students explore the thinking brain and the important executive functioning skills that support learning, self-control, organization, and goal-setting. Through interactive questions, team collaboration, and guided discussion, students learn how their brain helps them plan ahead, stay focused, manage tasks, and make thoughtful decisions.

Executive functions are often described as the brain’s “management system.” These skills help students organize their thoughts, control impulses, remember instructions, shift attention, and complete tasks. When students understand how their brain works, they can develop strategies that strengthen focus, improve planning, and support better learning habits. This digital SEL and brain-based learning game is ideal for school counselors, classroom teachers, psychologists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, and special educators who want a fun and structured way to introduce executive functioning concepts during SEL lessons, study skills sessions, counseling groups, or whole-class instruction. Students build important cognitive and self-regulation skills such as attention, planning, organization, impulse control, working memory, and flexible thinking, while learning that these brain skills can grow stronger with practice and helpful strategies.

HOW IT WORKS:

• Play directly in PowerPoint — no special software required
• Choose 2–10 teams for flexible group sizes
• Teams earn points by answering executive function questions
• Correct answers are revealed with one click
• Encourages discussion, reflection, and peer learning
• Press RESET to replay again and again — unlimited use

GAME FEATURES:

This digital brain game includes 5 engaging sections, each with 5 questions and increasing point values (100–500), designed to build understanding step-by-step.

1.What Are Executive Functions? Introduces students to executive functioning skills and explains how these brain-based abilities help with focus, self-control, organization, and completing tasks.

2.The Thinking Brain Explores the role of the prefrontal cortex, often called the “thinking brain,” and how it helps us pause, think ahead, make decisions, and regulate behavior.

3.Planning and Organization Helps students understand the importance of planning ahead, organizing tasks, breaking work into steps, and managing time effectively.

4.True or False About Focus Challenges common misconceptions about attention and concentration while helping students learn strategies for improving focus and reducing distractions.

5.Strengthening Your Thinking Brain Encourages students to explore practical ways to strengthen executive functioning skills, such as goal setting, using checklists, practicing self-monitoring, and developing helpful routines.

WHY TEACHERS & COUNSELORS LOVE IT

• Teaches executive functioning skills in a brain-based, student-friendly format
• Supports SEL lessons, study skills, and classroom success strategies
• Encourages discussion about focus, organization, and self-control
• Helps students understand how their brain supports learning and decision-making
• Builds planning, attention, and problem-solving skills
• Perfect for elementary classrooms, counseling groups, and executive functioning support
• Low-prep — simply open and play