Students sort ten everyday situations into what they can and can't control, then pick one worry and plan one step they can take.
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Students sort ten statements from a school day into two rings: what they can control goes inside, what they can't goes outside. Packing a bag the night before and the words they use when upset belong inside; a thunderstorm on a school-trip day and a late bus stay out. Page 2 turns the sort on a worry of their own. They write or draw it, list the parts they can control, pick one action and when they will do it, and mark how they feel before and after.
Statement 10, a classmate's grumpy mood, can end up inside when students feel responsible for a friend. Use the tip strip on page 1: the mood is outside, but how they respond to it is inside.
Read the "I will" line on page 2 before students try their plan. It should name something in their own words, effort or choices, not something another person has to do.
Ways to adjust the sort and the worry plan for different students.
Each one is checked against the official document. Where the resource covers only part of a standard, the note says so.
Students sort things they can and cannot control, write down a worry, pick the part they can control, plan one action and check how they feel before and after; it practises one coping strategy and does not explain why emotional responses vary.
No key is printed. The sort has expected answers, statements 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 inside and the even numbers outside, and page 2 is personal.
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