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Assessment: Self-Awareness for Happiness

Invite students to reflect on what lifts their mood, what feels difficult and who inspires them with a one-page sheet of personal prompts.
Grades
Grades 6–8
Pages
1
File type
PDF
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Updated Sep 27, 2026

Subject
Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Mental Health
Topic
Self-awareness, Happiness reflection
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This one-page PDF invites personal reflection on happiness, difficult moments, inspiration and the person a student wants to become. Students complete short lists and open prompts, including three verbs for their future self.

Use it as an individual check-in or repeat it later to discuss changes in students’ responses. Sharing can be voluntary. The download contains one reflection sheet with open responses and no scoring scale.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Practice naming and describing personal emotions and moods

  • Identify specific people, activities, and moments that influence happiness

  • Set a personal aspiration by choosing three descriptive verbs for a future self

Teaching tips

  • Use it as a beginning-of-week or beginning-of-month check-in, since the open prompts work well repeated over time to track how a student's answers change.

  • Pair it with a brief class discussion afterward so students can voluntarily share one answer, building group awareness of what motivates different people.

  • Keep completed sheets in a student folder as a private reflection record rather than displaying them, since some prompts (unhappiest moments) may be personal.

Skills covered

  • Emotional vocabulary — students describe their current mood and select three verbs to characterize an aspirational self

  • Self-reflection — prompts ask students to identify personal happiness and unhappiness triggers with specific examples

  • Goal articulation — the "person you want to become" prompt has students commit to concrete, self-chosen descriptors

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Does the sheet have a score or answer key?

The prompts ask for personal responses and do not provide a scoring scale. Use the completed page for reflection, with students choosing what they wish to discuss.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Self-awareness

  • Emotional reflection

  • Social emotional learning

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