Executive Functioning & Life Skills Worksheets for Grades 9–12

Executive Functioning & Life Skills Worksheets for Grades 9–12

Help high school students strengthen practical executive functioning, planning, organization, and decision-making skills through realistic, real-world scenarios. This resource gives students meaningful practice managing responsibilities, deadlines, schedules, budgets, and everyday choices while developing greater independence.

Skills Covered

• Prioritizing tasks and responsibilities

• Identifying constraints and requirements

• Managing time and planning backward from deadlines

• Comparing costs and working within a budget

• Sequencing tasks and recognizing dependencies

• Evaluating choices and tradeoffs

• Creating backup plans

• Revising plans when circumstances change

• Supporting decisions with evidence and reasoning

What’s Included

• Executive functioning reference charts

• Real-world planning and decision-making worksheets

• Scenarios involving transportation, appointments, household responsibilities, work, budgeting, schedules, and purchases

• Teacher guidance

• Answer keys with sample responses

Recommended For

• Grades 9–12

• Executive functioning instruction

• Life skills and transition programs

• Special education

• Advisory and homeroom

• Academic support and intervention

• Small-group instruction

• Independent practice

• College and career readiness

These activities can be taught as a complete executive functioning and life skills unit or used individually to target specific student needs. Students practice applying planning, organization, time-management, budgeting, problem-solving, and decision-making strategies to situations they may encounter in everyday life.

File Type: PDF

This resource is provided as a PDF for convenient viewing, printing, and classroom use.