Growth Mindset Exploration
This worksheet helps 6th-grade students understand and practice the principles of a growth mindset, focusing on effort, challenges, and learning.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Think about how a growth mindset can help you learn and grow.
What is Growth Mindset?
A growth mindset is the belief that your abilities and intelligence can grow and develop over time with effort and dedication. It's about seeing challenges as opportunities to learn.
1. Which of the following statements best describes a growth mindset?
My intelligence is fixed and cannot change.
I can improve my skills and intelligence through hard work.
It's better to avoid challenges to prevent failure.
Talent alone determines success.
2. Having a growth mindset means you never make mistakes.
True
False
3. When facing a difficult task, a person with a growth mindset would say, "I will and learn from my ."
4. Describe a time when you faced a challenge and how you used effort to overcome it. What did you learn?
Match each statement with the mindset it represents.
5. "I'm not good at math, so I'll never understand this."
a. Growth Mindset
6. "This is hard, but I can improve if I keep trying."
b. Fixed Mindset
Use the words below to complete the sentences.
7. A growth mindset encourages us to embrace as opportunities for .
8. We can grow our brains by putting in consistent and viewing as part of the process.