Making Smart Choices: A Decision-Making Worksheet
This worksheet helps Grade 6 students understand the decision-making process, identify factors influencing decisions, and practice making responsible choices.
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Making Smart Choices: A Decision-Making Worksheet
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Think about how your choices impact yourself and others.
1. Decision making is the process of making among different options or courses of action.
2. Before making a decision, it's important to identify your and what you hope to achieve.
3. The possible positive and negative results of a decision are called .
4. A smart decision often involves considering different perspectives and gathering .
1. Which of the following is an internal factor that might influence your decision to study for a test?
Your friends are going to a movie.
Your desire to get a good grade.
Your teacher assigned extra homework.
The weather is nice outside.
2. Peer pressure is an example of what type of factor influencing decisions?
Internal factor
External factor
Personal factor
Emotional factor
1. Imagine you found a wallet on the school playground. What steps would you take to make a responsible decision about what to do with it?
1. It's always best to make decisions quickly without thinking too much.
True
False
2. Considering the feelings of others is an important part of ethical decision making.
True
False
Number the steps in the decision-making process in the correct order (1-5).
Identify the problem or decision to be made.
Evaluate the options and their consequences.
Brainstorm possible solutions or options.
Choose the best option and take action.
Review your decision and its outcome.