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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Reflect: The Truth About Your Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning and practicing help strengthen and change our brains. Watch a short video and complete reflection questions on how your brain continues to grow.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Learn: The Growth Mindset

For Students 9th - 10th
This article showcases the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Reflect: The Growth Mindset

For Students 9th - 10th
In this reflection, do your best to think about the challenges and obstacles you face in your own life. Use these reflection questions to piece together a plan for overcoming them using strategies shared in previous activities.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Connect: Keep Going Keep Growing

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity will help students understand why working through frustration will help them grow.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Learn: Keep Going. Keep Growing

For Students 9th - 10th
This article lays out a few steps to help you become better at dealing with frustration. Practicing them will make it easier to persist and, over time, help you get less frustrated during your learning journey.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Reflect: Keep Going. Keep Growing

For Students 9th - 10th
Not all strategies for overcoming frustration work for everyone. You have to find out which strategies work best for you! Use the reflection questions below to develop your own plan to keep going, keep growing when you get frustrated.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Learn: My Kind of Cool

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen to successful people who have struggled with belonging academically and with their school peers and how they conquered those challenges.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Connect: Serendipity

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this activity, students will understand that life is full of opportunities-sometimes unplanned-that we should embrace as part of the learning process.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Reflect: Serendipity

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will answer reflection questions based on previous videos about career journeys.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Reflect: The Path Forward

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity asks students to reflect on what they have learned from the Growth Mindset activities.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Build My Growth Mindset!

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this reflection, you will create your own growth mindset pep talk that you can use to conquer your fixed mindset voice when you hear it. This activity is great for elementary school-age kids.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Create Your Plan to Deal With Frustration

For Students 3rd - 5th
Follow the lead of Thinky Pinky on how to cope with frustrations. Complete the four-step plan with examples from Thinky Pinky to help you keep going when you want to give up!
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Mistakes in My Own Life

For Students 3rd - 5th
This activity helps elementary school-age kids reflect on past mistakes and how they can learn and grow from those mistakes and future mistakes.
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Article
Character Lab

Character Lab: Grit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article discusses the importance of having a grit and ways to foster it in young people.
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Activity
Character Lab

Character Lab: Two Stories: Grit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this writing activity, you reflect on a time when you succeeded and the steps you took to succeed, and also a time when you failed and what you learned from that. Printables and examples are included.
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Handout
NASA

Nasa Space Place: The Mars Rovers

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn why rovers are important and details about the Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and Perseverance.