MS.5 Using Your Community as a Laboratory for Leadership
This LifeKnowledge Middle School FFA lesson (MS.5) teaches students a five-step process for conducting “leadership investigations”—using their school and community as a laboratory to research questions about leadership much like the scientific method. Students learn to form a research question, create a hypothesis, identify an area for observation, conduct research, and evaluate findings, then apply the process by designing and conducting their own leadership investigation. The lesson includes an interest approach, teaching strategies, a transparency master, a written test, and a grading rubric.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Describe a process to use when conducting leadership investigations.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- Middle School
- Materials
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- Overhead Projector
- Projection Surface
- Scrap paper–one piece per student
- MS.5.TM.A
- MS.5.Test—one per student
- MS.5.Assess—one per student
- Unit
- Introduction to Leadership, Personal Growth, and Career Success.
- Problem Area
- Introduction
- Precepts
- A8: Evaluate and reflect on actions taken and make appropriate modifications; E1: Address issues important to the community
- Resources
- Maxwell, John, "Developing the Leader Within You," Nashville, Tenn., Thomas Nelson Publishers. 1993.
- Key Term
- Leadership investigations
Downloads & Links
Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NL-ENG.K12.11Participating in Society – Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative and critical members of a variety of literacy communities.