What I Can and Cannot Control Worksheet

Twenty short phrase cards, including my behaviour, what other people do, the weather, being kind, working hard, listening, saying sorry, skin colour, death, and taking care of yourself, are meant to be cut apart and glued under the correct headings, teaching students to distinguish what is within their personal control from what is not. The file is provided as four separate PDF variants: a plain version and a name/date-header version, each duplicated once in American spelling (behaviour, colour) and once in British/Canadian spelling (behaviour, colour), so a teacher can pick the version matching their students' region and whether they want a formal name/date heading on the page. This is a hands-on cut-and-sort activity rather than a worksheet with written responses, intended to prompt a discussion about which of life's circumstances a student can and cannot influence. Once students have sorted what they can't control, a coping skills bingo game gives them concrete self-regulation strategies to practice for the moments they can't change.