Goal Setting Worksheets and SMART Goal Activities for Students - SEL Worksheets

No-prep SEL worksheets for grades 3-5 that teach students how to set meaningful goals. These print-and-go worksheets help students choose motivating goals, break them into manageable steps, and describe them clearly enough to know when they have been reached.

With this resource, you'll be able to:

• Help students choose goals they are motivated to work toward.
• Guide discussion on breaking goals into smaller, manageable steps.
• Practice describing goals clearly enough to know when they have been met.
• Send worksheets home so families can support goal setting.

What's Included

Goal Setting Worksheets

Five worksheets walk students through choosing and setting goals step by step. Each one includes a discussion question and a short activity to apply what they have learned.

• 5 worksheets, 2 pages each
• Discussion question and student activity on each worksheet
• Printable PDFs in color and black and white
• Digital Google Slides version with fill-in text boxes that mirrors the printable worksheets

10 pages | PDF + Google Slides | Black & white included

What These Worksheets Cover

1. Introduce goals as things we want to happen and are willing to work toward.
2. Explore picking a personally meaningful goal.
3. Practice breaking goals into smaller, manageable steps.
4. Describe goals clearly enough to know when they have been met.
5. Reflect on what they learned about choosing and setting goals.

Ways You Can Use This

• Use the worksheets with a whole class, small group, or individual student to introduce meaningful and motivating goals.
• Use the discussion questions to talk about goals, manageable steps, and how students will know when a goal has been met.
• Complete the short activities together or use the Google Slides version for students to draft and reflect on a goal independently.
• Send the worksheets home to give families a simple way to support students as they choose and work toward goals.

Do I need Google Classroom? You don't need to use Google Classroom, but you do need a Google account to use Slides.

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