MS.12 Demonstrating Self-Organization Skills
This is a National FFA Organization LifeKnowledge middle school lesson (MS.12) on demonstrating self-organization skills. Through paired stories of an organized and a disorganized student, learners identify the benefits of being organized, learn specific self-organization skills (sleep, planners, to-do lists, clean lockers, etc.), and apply those skills by tracking their own organization over a week. It includes an interest approach, teaching content, activity sheets, transparency, and a written assessment.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- List benefits of developing self-organization skills.
- Identify good self-organization skills.
- Apply self-organization skills.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- Middle School
- Materials
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- Overhead projector
- Assortment of markers
- MS.12.AS.A—one per student
- MS.12.AS.B—one per student
- MS.12.TM.A
- MS.12.Assess—one per student
- Unit
- Stage One of Development-ME
- Problem Area
- What Foundational Skills Do I Need for Leadership?
- Precepts
- A1 Work independently and in groups to get things done.
- Key Terms
- Skill, Organization, Priority
- Resources
- Covey, Stephen R., A. Roger and Rebecca R. Merrill. First Things First: To Live, To Love, To Learn, To Live a Legacy. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994. National FFA Organization's Essential Learnings, 2003. Webster's Universal College Dictionary. New York, NY: Random House Inc., 1997.
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Lesson plan
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NL-ENG.K12.6Applying Knowledge – Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions, media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create critique, and discuss print and nonprint texts.