HS.23 Taking Risks (PowerPoint)
This is a National FFA Organization “LifeKnowledge” high school lesson (HS.23, “Taking Risks”) on personal development and risk-taking. Through a trust-fall activity, group brainstorming, a self-assessment survey, and writing exercises, students learn to identify opportunities for taking risks, examine the factors and steps involved in taking a risk, and analyze the rewards of risk-taking.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Identify opportunities for taking risks.
- List five factors which affect the willingness to take risks and list five steps to taking that risk.
- Analyze the rewards for taking risks.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- High School
- Materials
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- Markers
- Open Space, preferably outdoors
- Overhead Projector
- Transparencies HS.23.TM.A–C
- Poster Paper
- Student Evaluation—HS.23.Assess—One per student
- Student Notebooks
- "Risky Business"—HS.23.AS.A—One per student
- Writing Surface
- Writing Tools
- Unit
- Stage One of Development—ME
- Problem Area
- How Do I Begin to Grow?
- Precepts
- C3: Demonstrate Courage to Take Risks. K7: Practice healthy expressions of love. O4: Experiments and takes risks
- Resources
- National FFA Organization's Essential Learnings Materials, 2003.
- Key Terms
- Risk
Downloads & Links
Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NSS-EC.9-12.4Positive and Negative Incentives — Understand that acting as citizens, people respond to incentives in order to allocate their scarce resources in ways that provide the highest possible returns to them.