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Khan Academy: Reflect: The Truth About Your Brain
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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Khan Academy: Learn: The Growth Mindset
This article showcases the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.
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Khan Academy: Reflect: The Growth Mindset
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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Khan Academy: Connect: Keep Going Keep Growing
This activity will help students understand why working through frustration will help them grow.
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Khan Academy: Learn: Keep Going. Keep Growing
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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Khan Academy: Reflect: Keep Going. Keep Growing
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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Khan Academy: Learn: My Kind of Cool
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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Khan Academy: Connect: Serendipity
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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Khan Academy: Reflect: Serendipity
Students will answer reflection questions based on previous videos about career journeys.
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Khan Academy: Reflect: The Path Forward
This activity asks students to reflect on what they have learned from the Growth Mindset activities.
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Khan Academy: Activity: Build My Growth Mindset!
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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Khan Academy: Activity: Create Your Plan to Deal With Frustration
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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Khan Academy: Activity: Mistakes in My Own Life
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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Character Lab: Grit
This article discusses the importance of having a grit and ways to foster it in young people.
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Character Lab: Two Stories: Grit
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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Nasa Space Place: The Mars Rovers
Learn why rovers are important and details about the Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and Perseverance.