What does help-seeking mean?

Reaching out to someone for support or advice

Waiting for a problem to grow before you speak

Giving advice to a friend who is having trouble

Solving each problem alone before telling anyone

Focusing on one thing and filtering out others

Doing several different tasks at exactly the same moment

Feeling excited about something that is new or loud

Remembering everything that you see during a whole day

A feeling with changes in body, thoughts and urges

A skill that you can learn only by going to school

A thought that people can prove or disprove with a test

A habit picked up by copying what your friends do

Turning information into a storable form

Reading the same page again and again

Keeping a memory safe for a long time

Pulling a stored memory back out when you need it

Understanding and sharing another's feelings

Agreeing with everything that another person says

Feeling happy when another person feels sad

Giving advice to anyone who seems to be upset

What is the circadian rhythm?

The body's roughly 24-hour inner clock

A rule about how long school classes last

A hormone that rises in the evening

A stage of deep sleep in each cycle

What does the prefrontal cortex do?

Planning, decisions and self-control

Storing the sounds of familiar songs

Sending signals to the heart and lungs

Controlling how fast the hair grows

Which person is most likely a trusted adult?

A teacher who listens and cares about you

A stranger who sends you a private message

An older student who asks you to keep dares secret

What is selective attention?

Choosing one thing to focus on and filtering out the rest

Switching between two tasks as quickly as you possibly can

Noticing every sound in the room at the same time as you work

What is emotional granularity?

Using specific words for feelings

Feeling several emotions at the same time

Rating every feeling as either good or bad

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1. What does help-seeking mean?
1. A. Waiting for a problem to grow before you speak
2. B. Giving advice to a friend who is having trouble
3. C. Reaching out to someone for support or advice ← Answer
4. D. Solving each problem alone before telling anyone
2. What is attention?
1. A. Doing several different tasks at exactly the same moment
2. B. Feeling excited about something that is new or loud
3. C. Focusing on one thing and filtering out others ← Answer
4. D. Remembering everything that you see during a whole day
3. What is an emotion?
1. A. A skill that you can learn only by going to school
2. B. A feeling with changes in body, thoughts and urges ← Answer
3. C. A thought that people can prove or disprove with a test
4. D. A habit picked up by copying what your friends do
4. What is encoding?
1. A. Reading the same page again and again
2. B. Turning information into a storable form ← Answer
3. C. Keeping a memory safe for a long time
4. D. Pulling a stored memory back out when you need it
5. What is empathy?
1. A. Agreeing with everything that another person says
2. B. Understanding and sharing another's feelings ← Answer
3. C. Feeling happy when another person feels sad
4. D. Giving advice to anyone who seems to be upset
6. What is the circadian rhythm?
1. A. A rule about how long school classes last
2. B. A hormone that rises in the evening
3. C. A stage of deep sleep in each cycle
4. D. The body's roughly 24-hour inner clock ← Answer
7. What does the prefrontal cortex do?
1. A. Storing the sounds of familiar songs
2. B. Sending signals to the heart and lungs
3. C. Planning, decisions and self-control ← Answer
4. D. Controlling how fast the hair grows
8. Which person is most likely a trusted adult?
1. A. A stranger who sends you a private message
2. B. An older student who asks you to keep dares secret
3. C. A teacher who listens and cares about you ← Answer
9. What is selective attention?
1. A. Switching between two tasks as quickly as you possibly can
2. B. Noticing every sound in the room at the same time as you work
3. C. Choosing one thing to focus on and filtering out the rest ← Answer
10. What is emotional granularity?
1. A. Using specific words for feelings ← Answer
2. B. Feeling several emotions at the same time
3. C. Rating every feeling as either good or bad
11. What is storage?
1. A. Testing yourself on a topic
2. B. Keeping a memory over time ← Answer
3. C. Studying hard the night before
12. What is cognitive empathy?
1. A. Feeling the same emotion as another person feels
2. B. Using your mind to understand what someone feels ← Answer
3. C. Telling someone exactly how they should feel
13. What is melatonin?
1. A. A hormone that signals it is time to sleep ← Answer
2. B. A habit that helps a person wake up early
3. C. A food that gives the brain extra energy
14. Where is the prefrontal cortex?
1. A. At the base of the spine
2. B. Deep in the center of the brain
3. C. At the front of the brain ← Answer
15. What is a resource, when you are looking for help?
1. A. A promise that a friend asks you to keep
2. B. A problem that no one in school can solve
3. C. A rule that stops students from asking questions
4. D. A person, service or tool that gives support ← Answer
16. Which comparison fits attention best?
1. A. A switch that is always on
2. B. A bucket that never gets full
3. C. A spotlight with limited power ← Answer
4. D. A mirror that shows everything
17. What is a trigger?
1. A. A word that means the opposite of any feeling
2. B. A person who always helps you feel calm and safe
3. C. A tool that makes strong feelings go away very quickly
4. D. A situation or thought that sets off a strong emotion ← Answer
18. What is retrieval?
1. A. Rereading notes until they look familiar
2. B. Sleeping after a long study session
3. C. Putting new information into the brain
4. D. Pulling a stored memory back out ← Answer
19. What is affective empathy?
1. A. Feeling something in response to another's emotion ← Answer
2. B. Working out someone's thoughts the way you solve a puzzle
3. C. Memorizing what a person likes to eat for lunch
4. D. Avoiding people who happen to be in a bad mood
20. What is a sleep cycle?
1. A. A period when the body makes melatonin
2. B. One full night of sleep from start to finish
3. C. Repeating light, deep and dream sleep ← Answer
4. D. A weekly schedule of study and rest times
21. What does the limbic system handle?
1. A. Emotion, reward and memory ← Answer
2. B. Planning ahead and controlling impulses
3. C. Balance, hearing and eye movement
4. D. Breathing, heartbeat and digestion
22. What does a school counselor do?
1. A. Teaches a single subject to the same class all day
2. B. Grades the tests for every class in the school every term
3. C. Helps students with school, feelings and decisions ← Answer
4. D. Chooses which students are allowed to join teams
23. What is multitasking?
1. A. Taking a short rest in between two separate tasks
2. B. Trying to do two or more tasks at the same time ← Answer
3. C. Planning out a task carefully before you begin working on it
4. D. Finishing one long task all the way through without a break
24. What is an urge?
1. A. The rest you take after a long and hard day
2. B. The choice you make after thinking everything through
3. C. The pull to act when you feel an emotion ← Answer
4. D. The reason an emotion turns out to be right or wrong
25. What is retrieval practice?
1. A. Studying by copying notes neatly
2. B. Studying by highlighting the whole chapter
3. C. Studying by testing yourself from memory ← Answer
4. D. Studying by playing quiet music
26. What is perspective-taking?
1. A. Copying everything that another person does
2. B. Picturing how a situation looks to someone else ← Answer
3. C. Deciding who is right when two people argue
4. D. Telling other people how you see things
27. About how long is one sleep cycle?
1. A. About 9 minutes
2. B. About 90 minutes ← Answer
3. C. About 24 hours
4. D. About 9 hours
28. What is adolescence?
1. A. Stage between childhood and adulthood ← Answer
2. B. The stage after the age of thirty or so
3. C. The very first year of a person's life
4. D. The final stage of formal schooling
29. Help levels: Try first = work on it yourself; Ask soon = ask within a day or two after real effort; Ask now = safety or serious problems. A student is stuck on homework after real effort. Which level fits?
1. A. Never ask
2. B. Try first
3. C. Ask soon ← Answer
30. What is task switching?
1. A. Asking another person to complete one of the tasks for you
2. B. Finishing two different tasks at exactly the same moment
3. C. Moving your attention back and forth between tasks ← Answer
31. What does intensity mean for a feeling?
1. A. How many people share the very same feeling
2. B. How long it lasts before it comes to an end
3. C. How strong it is, from mild to very strong ← Answer
32. What is spaced practice?
1. A. Doing one very long session all at once
2. B. Studying with a friend at the same table
3. C. Spreading sessions over several days ← Answer
33. What is an assumption?
1. A. Something you believe is true without checking ← Answer
2. B. Something you have tested and proved to be true
3. C. Something an expert told you about last year
34. What happens during deep sleep?
1. A. The body stays alert and ready to move around
2. B. The body repairs and the brain stores memories ← Answer
3. C. The brain erases everything learned that day
35. What is a synapse?
1. A. A small muscle that controls the movement of the eyes
2. B. The protective outer layer that surrounds the whole brain
3. C. Where one brain cell signals another ← Answer
36. Help levels: Try first = work on it yourself; Ask soon = ask within a day or two after real effort; Ask now = safety or serious problems. Which problem belongs in the try first level?
1. A. A classmate who keeps hurting you at recess every day
2. B. Sadness that has lasted for two weeks or longer
3. C. A problem you can work on with effort and tools ← Answer
4. D. A friend who says they do not want to live
37. What is a switch cost?
1. A. The effort needed to get started on a very long task
2. B. The time you save by working on two things at once
3. C. The money spent on buying a new device for schoolwork
4. D. The time and accuracy lost each time you change tasks ← Answer
38. What is self-regulation?
1. A. Guiding your feelings and actions to fit your goals ← Answer
2. B. Letting your feelings decide everything you do
3. C. Making sure that you never have any strong feelings
4. D. Copying exactly how other people handle their feelings
39. What is cramming?
1. A. Studying a lot in one long pre-test session ← Answer
2. B. Studying a little each day for a whole week
3. C. Quizzing yourself with a stack of flashcards
4. D. Explaining a topic in your own words
40. What is sympathy?
1. A. Ignoring a friend who is upset until they calm down
2. B. Concern for someone without feeling what they feel ← Answer
3. C. Feeling exactly what another person feels in their body
4. D. Telling a friend to stop being sad right away
41. What is sleep debt?
1. A. A nap that is taken in the middle of the day
2. B. The amount of sleep you have missed ← Answer
3. C. The money a family pays for a better mattress
4. D. A bedtime that is set earlier than a teen wants
42. What is pruning?
1. A. The brain removing connections that are not used ← Answer
2. B. The brain growing noticeably larger every single night
3. C. The brain adding new bones to the inside of the skull
4. D. The brain losing a person's memory of familiar names
43. Help levels: Try first = work on it yourself; Ask soon = ask within a day or two after real effort; Ask now = safety or serious problems. Someone at school keeps hurting a student. Which level fits?
1. A. Try first
2. B. Wait and see
3. C. Ask soon
4. D. Ask now ← Answer
44. What is a distraction?
1. A. Anything that pulls attention from your chosen task ← Answer
2. B. A short break that you planned before you started working
3. C. A task that is far too hard for you to ever finish
4. D. A quiet place where you can think clearly on your own
45. What is a pause?
1. A. A choice to ignore a feeling so that it goes away
2. B. A long break from all of your friends and family
3. C. A burst of energy that comes after feeling angry
4. D. A short stop between a feeling and a response ← Answer
46. What does the forgetting curve show?
1. A. Forgetting means the brain is not working well
2. B. Forgetting begins only after about a year
3. C. Memories get stronger with no review at all
4. D. New information fades fastest soon after learning ← Answer
47. What is active listening?
1. A. Waiting for your turn to talk about yourself
2. B. Solving the problem before the person has finished
3. C. Full attention, reflecting back and asking questions ← Answer
4. D. Nodding along while you look at your phone
48. What is sleep hygiene?
1. A. Habits and settings that help you fall and stay asleep ← Answer
2. B. A medicine that makes people feel sleepy
3. C. Washing your face and brushing teeth before bed
4. D. A rule that says everyone must sleep exactly eight hours
49. What is dopamine?
1. A. A brain chemical involved in motivation and reward ← Answer
2. B. A part of the brain that stores long-term memories
3. C. A type of cell that is found only in teenagers
4. D. A habit that helps students stay focused in class
50. In the US, what number can a person call or text in a crisis?
1. A. 311
2. B. 511
3. C. 988 ← Answer

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6th grade social-emotional at UpOnly Learning is 7 topics, taught in this order: how memory works and how to study, attention and the myth of multitasking, your changing brain, naming and managing emotions, sleep and the brain, empathy and perspective-taking, and when and how to ask for help. The 50 questions above are drawn from those topics, with the answer marked beside each one, so you can see what has stuck and what needs another lesson. The workbook teaches each topic with a 40-minute lesson; the free PDF sample has one full topic.

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How memory works and how to study: Explain encoding, storage and retrieval and plan study with retrieval practice and spacing
Attention and the myth of multitasking: Explain switch costs and design a plan to protect focus
Your changing brain: Describe how the brain develops in the early teen years and which habits support it
Naming and managing emotions: Use precise feeling words and pause before responding to strong emotions
Sleep and the brain: Explain what sleep does for the brain and build an evening routine for 8 to 10 hours
Empathy and perspective-taking: Tell apart kinds of empathy and practice active listening
When and how to ask for help: Choose trusted adults and resources and practice asking for help clearly

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Eli does not understand fractions and has been stuck for two days but feels embarrassed. Write what he could say to his teacher.

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