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1.1 Self- Exploration

Social Studies · Grade 7 · 6 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Meaning of self-exploration and personal awareness
  • Personal abilities and talents
  • Personal interests
  • How abilities and interests influence career choices
  • Personal values for a steady personality
  • Managing emotions: happiness, love, fear and anger

What you will be able to do

  • explore personal abilities and interests for holistic development
  • develop personal values for a steady personality
  • manage emotions in day-to-day life
  • appreciate personal awareness in day-to-day life

Key questions

“How can personal abilities and interests influence career choices?”

Lessons

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  1. What is self-exploration?
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    The meaning of self-exploration and personal awareness, and why Grade 7 is the right time to begin a journal.
  2. Personal abilities and talents
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    How to notice, name and grow different kinds of ability for holistic development.
  3. Personal interests
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    What interests are, how they differ from abilities, and how an interest grows into a skill that can serve others.
  4. Abilities, interests and career choices
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    How personal abilities and interests point to a cluster of careers, without locking a Grade 7 learner into one job.
  5. Personal values for a steady personality
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    How personal values and principles hold a learner steady when peer, mark and money pressures blow.
  6. Managing emotions in daily life
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Happiness, love, fear and anger as information, and simple ways to manage each without harming self or others.