HS.16 The Need for Leaders
This LifeKnowledge lesson (HS.16, “The Need for Leaders”) is a high school FFA leadership lesson that helps students understand what a leader is, why leaders are needed, and how they personally can lead others. Through scenarios, drawing activities, motion activities, and personalized lists, students define leadership and identify specific ways they can lead in their own contexts. It includes transparencies, an activity sheet, and a short-answer assessment with answer key.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Define leader.
- Cite examples of the need for leaders.
- Identify ways they can lead others.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- High School
- Materials
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- Overhead Projector
- Transparencies HS.16.TM.A–C
- HS.16.Assess—one per student
- Student Notebooks
- HS.16.AS.A—one sheet cut into strips
- Writing Surface
- Writing Tools
- Unit
- Stage One of Development—ME
- Problem Area
- What vision do I have for influence?
- Precepts
- C5 Persuade others to commit.
- Key Terms
- Leader
- Resources
- National FFA Organization's Essential Learnings Materials, 2003.
Downloads & Links
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NSS-C.9-12.2Foundations of the Political System — What values and principles are basic to American constitutional democracy.