Laws – How Organizations Express Beliefs, Values and Direction
This LifeKnowledge lesson (HS.110) teaches students how organizations express their beliefs, values, and direction. Using the National FFA Organization as the example, students define what a value is and how values are communicated, identify value-laden language in the FFA creed, motto, and mission statement, and analyze how FFA lives out the three components of its mission statement (premier leadership, personal growth, and career success).
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Define value and determine how it is communicated.
- Identify language that communicates FFA values by understanding the creed, motto, and mission statement of FFA.
- Define three components of FFA mission statement and analyze how FFA is living its mission.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- High School
- Materials
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- Overhead Projector
- Writing Surface
- Tape
- Colored Pens or Pencils
- HS.110.Assess—one per student
- HS.110.Test—one per student
- HS.110.TM.A
- HS.110.TM.B
- HS.110.TM.C
- HS.110.AS.A—one per student
- HS.110.AS.B—one per student
- Official FFA Manuals—one per student
- Markers
- Unit
- FFA: An Integral Component of Agricultural Education
- Problem Area
- What Are the Components of a Successful Organization?
- Precepts
- D2: Accurately assess my values
- Resources
- "Official FFA Manual," National FFA Organization, 2002.
- Key Terms
- Career Success; Creed; Mission Statement; Motto; Personal Growth; Premier Leadership; Value; Organizational Values
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Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NL-ENG.K-12.8Students use a variety of technological and information resources to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.