SMART GOALS Student Planning Digital Game – Goal Setting Activities Lesson HIGH

Are you looking for an engaging, age-appropriate way to teach teens how to set meaningful goals, build motivation, and develop real-world life skills? Our Building SMART Goals Challenge for Grades 9–12 is our interactive goal-setting digital PowerPoint game designed to help high school students understand and apply the SMART goal framework—Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound—in a practical and engaging way.

Through interactive questions, discussion prompts, team collaboration, and critical thinking activities, students explore how effective goal setting supports academic success, emotional regulation, executive functioning, career readiness, personal growth, and future planning. Our engaging social-emotional learning (SEL) game encourages students to reflect on their choices, habits, priorities, and long-term goals while developing important life and self-management skills.

GAME FEATURES: Our SMART Goals digital game includes 5 engaging categories, each with 5 questions and increasing point values (100–500), designed to build confidence and deeper understanding of goal setting and future planning:

1.Specific — Helps students create clear, focused, and realistic goals

2.Measurable — Teaches students how to track growth, progress, and success

3.Achievable — Encourages realistic planning and problem-solving skills

4.Relevant — Connects goals to personal values, priorities, and future aspirations

5.Time-Bound — Reinforces deadlines, accountability, and action planning

HOW IT WORKS:

• Play directly in PowerPoint™ — no special software required
• Choose 2–10 teams for flexible group sizes
• Teams earn points by answering SMART goal questions
• Answers are revealed instantly with one click
• Encourages discussion, reflection, and critical thinking
• Press RESET to replay again and again — unlimited use

WHY TEACHERS & COUNSELORS LOVE IT:

• Supports social-emotional learning (SEL) and executive functioning skills
• Encourages self-reflection, motivation, and future-focused thinking
• Helps students build organization, planning, and accountability skills
• Perfect for school counseling lessons, advisory, health, life skills, and SEL groups
• Encourages meaningful classroom discussion and real-world application
• Engaging and age-appropriate for middle school and high school learners

IMPORTANT TECH NOTE

This resource requires the desktop version of Microsoft PowerPoint (Windows or Mac). It is not compatible with Google Slides, PowerPoint Online, or Chromebooks without PowerPoint installed.