Plan and reflect
Plan My Drawing
Before you draw: choose your idea, shapes and colors. After you draw: look back and set a goal.
Thinking sheet · Plan and reflect
Climb Out of the Learning Pit
Show where you got stuck, what helped you climb and how it felt at the top.
- Grades
- 2–6
- Time
- about 20 minutes
- Topic
- Plan and reflect
- Kids practice
- perseverance, growth mindset, problem solving
What kids do
“Learning sometimes feels like falling into a pit. How did you climb out?”
- Draw the pit, and you in it
- What helped me climb
- I got stuck when…
- At the top I felt…
How to run it
- Introduce the learning pit idea: confusion comes before understanding.
- Each rung is a strategy, like asking or trying again.
- Celebrate time spent in the pit.
Talk about it
- What does the pit feel like?
- Which rung helped most?
- Is the pit a bad place?
Take it further
Make a class ladder poster of climbing strategies.
Pairs well with
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