Grades 2–5
Fixed or Growth Mindset?
Read ten thoughts and sort each into fixed mindset or growth mindset.
SEL worksheet · Growth mindset
Growth Mindset Challenge Board
Sixteen growth mindset challenges, from trying a new food to asking for feedback. Check them off and try for four in a row.
- Grade level
- Grades 1–5
- Time
- About 10 minutes
- Topic
- Growth mindset
- Answer key
- Not needed: answers vary
- Kids practice
- Growth mindset, Perseverance, Positive self-talk, Learning from mistakes
What kids do
Printed on the sheet:
- Check off each challenge when you do it. Can you get four in a row?
- Learn a new word
- Help a friend learn
- Say “I can’t do it yet”
- Keep going when
- Ask for feedback
Words on this sheet
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Teacher tip
Post a class board and add a sticker for each challenge kids complete.
How to use it
- Celebrate a “mistake of the day” where the class learns from an error.
- Connect it to a real hard task, like a tricky math page.
- Let kids choose to share or keep their answers private. Both are fine.
Watch for
Praise for being “smart”. Try praising the effort or the strategy instead.
Talk about it
- What is something you couldn’t do last year that you can do now?
- How might someone else see it differently?
Take it further
Keep a learning journal where kids note one thing that was hard and how they kept going.
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More growth mindset worksheets
Grades 1–4
Change Your Words
Rewrite six stuck thoughts like “I can’t do this” into growth mindset words like “I can’t do this yet.”
Grades K–2
Look How I Have Grown
Draw something you could not do as a baby, something you can do now and something you will learn next.
Grades 1–3
Growth Mindset Power Words
Fill in the six power words, yet, practice, mistakes, try, help and brain, then pick your favorite.
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