Achieve Your Wildest Dreams
A quick “Soft” Skills Integration lesson plan from the National FFA Organization in which students create a “dream board” — a collage of photos and words representing their life goals — digitally or on paper, then explain and compare their boards through class discussion. The activity teaches creativity and self-motivation, and includes an exit slip for reflection.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Recognize the importance of effective creativity and self-motivation.
- Demonstrate self-motivation.
- Demonstrate creativity.
- Time required
- 30 minutes
- Materials
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- Search engine of your choice
- Poster board or construction paper
- Markers or crayons
- Glue
- Scissors
- Magazines that the photos can be cut out
- Resources
- FFA.org
- This Quick Lesson Plan Would Work Well With
- Team-building activities; Communication activities
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills
- Collaboration; Communication; Social and Cross-Cultural Skills; Work Creatively with Others
- Created
- 02/2017 by the National FFA Organization
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Aligned Standards
AFNR Career Ready Practices
Common Core – Language
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
FFA Precept
- FFA-CS-M.CommunicationEffectively interact with others in personal and professional settings.
FFA Precepts
- FFA.CS-N.Decision MakingAnalyze a situation and execute an appropriate course of action.
Next Generation Science
- HS-ETS1-3Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts.