Adaptability

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Age range

Icon person 5 - 11

Time to complete

10 - 60 minutes

Adaptability

Adaptability 7 to 11 years

Choose to download one or more individual resources

Adaptability 7 to 11: Lesson plan

PDF 1.7MB

Adaptability 7 to 11: Presentation slides

PDF 3.8MB

Adaptability 7 to 11: Pupil worksheet

PDF 67.6KB

Primary school: Skills tracker

PDF 838.1KB

Adaptability icon

JPG 26.9KB

The skill of adaptability is fundamental to pupils’ development, in education and beyond.  It’s key to start building from an early age as global societal and technological trends will continue to shape the future workplace as pupils move through education.  These changes are brought about by AI, automation and as the world looks to reduce the impacts of climate change. Core transferable skills such as adaptability are becoming increasingly valuable to employers and can transfer across different roles and industries. 

Teach 7–11-year-old pupils that adaptability is the ability to adjust to new or changing conditions with confidence and composure. In a world where technology and work environments are evolving rapidly, learning to be adaptable at an early age helps pupils stay resilient, open-minded and ready to embrace change. 

The activities in this lesson support pupils to recognise where they already demonstrate adaptability and how they can strengthen it further.

Teaching Resources:

  • Adaptability: Lesson plan and presentation slides – for use with a group of pupils in the classroom
  • Adaptability: Pupil worksheet  – a worksheet that ask pupils to reflect on the adaptability skills they’ve learned in this lesson
  • Primary school: Skills tracker – an optional resource to support pupils keep track of the skills they have developed and plan how they can practise them
  • Adaptability icon: available to download and incorporate in your wider teaching materials to help students recognise other contexts where they are learning and utilising adaptability skills. 

Lesson learning outcomes:

By the end of the lesson pupils will be able to:

  • Explain the skill of adaptability
  • Identify how adaptability can help them throughout education and into the workplace
  • Discuss how they have shown this skill in their daily lives.

Understanding the core transferable skills

Show your students our short animation to help bring to life what the core transferable skills are, why they matter and how they’re fundamental to their development, in education and beyond.

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Core transferable skills lessons

After pupils have built their adaptability skills why not try the other lessons in our tailored suite of resources for 7-11 year olds to help them develop the key skills every young person needs to raise their aspirations for future success. 

 

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Support pupils’ ongoing progression 

This lesson features in the employability skills scheme of learning for 7–11-year-olds. They provide a ready-made sequence of curriculum linked resources to help you build progression in your learners' knowledge over time. Visit the Scheme of learning homepage to support with your planning

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