Grades 1–4
Stuck? Try a Strategy
Read six stuck moments and circle the learning strategy that helps most, like rereading or breaking a job into parts.
SEL worksheet · Growth mindset
My Amazing Brain: True or False
Circle true or false for ten facts about how your brain grows when you learn, then fix two of the false ones.
- Grade level
- Grades 2–5
- Time
- About 15 minutes
- Topic
- Growth mindset
- Answer key
- Yes, page 2 of the PDF
- Kids practice
- Growth mindset, Perseverance, Positive self-talk, Learning from mistakes
What kids do
Printed on the sheet:
- Your brain is made of billions of nerve cells called neurons. Each time you practice, they make stronger connections, like a path that gets clearer the more you walk on it.
- Circle True or False for each sentence.
- Your brain can grow new connections when you learn something new.
- Only some people can make their brains stronger.
- Practicing a skill again and again makes the brain path for it stronger.
- Mistakes mean your brain is not working.
- Sleep helps your brain save what you learned that day.
- Grown-ups can never learn anything new.
Teacher tip
Show a picture of neurons connecting to explain why practice grows the brain.
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.
- Use it during morning meeting or right after recess, when the topic is fresh.
Watch for
Praise for being “smart”. Try praising the effort or the strategy instead.
Talk about it
- What do you say to yourself when something is hard?
- 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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Mistake Acronyms
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Grades 1–4
Talk Back to a Fixed Thought
Four comic panels where a character says a fixed mindset thought. Write a growth mindset talk-back in each empty bubble.
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