Schools Tree Day - Growing Grit

In this lesson, students will explore the character strength of grit and link time outdoors and in nature as a strategy for coping with setbacks and persevering to achieve their goals in a gritty way. They will read a definition of grit from the Character Lab website, then complete a ‘Think-Pair-Share’ visible thinking routine to better understand what grit looks like in action. Students will deepen their understanding of grit by drafting, practising and conducting an interview with a person that they identify as gritty. Students will then share the stories that they heard in their interview. They will illustrate their understanding about the nature of setbacks and how gritty people persevere through them by physically moving along a timeline to indicate that not all goals are achieved in a linear manner. Students will reflect on how they can apply what they know about grit to their own lives and identify strategies that they can incorporate to be able to pursue their goals with grit.