Growth Mindset Exploration
This worksheet explores the concept of growth mindset and its importance for Grade 7 students in social studies.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Think about how your mindset affects your learning and growth.
1. Which of the following best describes a 'growth mindset'?
Believing your intelligence is fixed and cannot change.
Believing your abilities can be developed through hard work and dedication.
Avoiding challenges to prevent failure.
Giving up easily when faced with difficulty.
2. What is a common characteristic of someone with a fixed mindset?
Embracing challenges.
Seeking feedback to improve.
Feeling threatened by the success of others.
Persisting in the face of setbacks.
3. A growth mindset emphasizes that our intelligence and abilities can be developed through and effort.
4. When you have a growth mindset, you see challenges as opportunities for .
5. People with a growth mindset believe their talents are innate and cannot be improved.
True
False
6. Receiving constructive criticism is generally welcomed by individuals with a growth mindset.
True
False
7. Describe one situation in your life where having a growth mindset helped you overcome a difficulty.
8. How can you encourage a growth mindset in your friends or classmates?
Our brains are amazing organs that can grow and change! Look at the diagram of the human brain below.
9. In your own words, explain how the brain's ability to form new connections (neuroplasticity) relates to having a growth mindset.