Advocacy: Start Your Own Blog
This is a National FFA lesson plan that guides students through starting their own blog as a tool for self-expression and agricultural advocacy. Students read an article on how to start a blog and complete a worksheet planning their blog’s topic, title, posting schedule, success measures, and growth strategies. The lesson works as an individual ag communications activity, FFA officer development tool, or recurring writing exercise.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Have the know-how to start their own blog
- Understand how a blog can be powerful advocacy tool
- Develop skills to express themselves and share their story
- Time required
- 30 minutes
- Materials
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- A copy of the "Start Your Own Blog" worksheet for each student
- Internet access to read the provided article "A Simple, Helpful Guide to Start Your Own Blog"
- Resources
- FFA.org; "How to Start a Blog" (http://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Blog)
- This Quick Lesson Plan Would Work Well As
- 1. Individual activity for an ag communications unit. 2. A tool for chapter FFA officer development. 3. A regular exercise to improve writing competency.
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills
- Communication; Critical Thinking and Problem Solving; Financial, Economic, Business, and Entrepreneurial Literacy; Global Awareness; Information, Communications, and Technology Literacy; Think Creatively; Flexibility and Adaptability; Initiative and Self-direction; Leadership and Responsibility
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Aligned Standards
AFNR Career Ready Practices
- CRP.02Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. Career-ready individuals readily access and use the knowledge and skills acquired through experience and education to be more productive.
- CRP.04Communicate clearly, effectively, and with reason. Career-ready individuals communicate thoughts, ideas and action plans with clarity, whether using written, verbal and/or visual methods.
- CRP.06Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
- CRP.08Utilize critical thinking to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Career-ready individuals readily recognize problems in the workplace, understand the nature of the problem, and devise effective plans to solve the problem.
- CRP.11Use technology to enhance productivity. Career-ready individuals find and maximize the productive value of existing and new technology to accomplish workplace tasks and solve workplace problems.
AFNR Cluster Skills
- CS.02Evaluate the nature and scope of the Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources Career Cluster and the role of agriculture, food and natural resources (AFNR) in society and the economy.
Common Core – Math Practices
Common Core – Writing
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.1Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.2Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
FFA Precept
- FFA.CS-NDecision Making: Analyze a situation and execute an appropriate course of action.
- FFA.PG-JMental Growth: Embrace cognitive and intellectual development relative to reasoning, thinking and coping.
- FFA.PL-AAction: Assume responsibility and take the necessary steps to achieve the desired results, no matter what the goal or task at hand.
- FFA.PL-EAwareness: Understand personal vision, mission and goals.