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Texting Do’s and Don’ts

This is a short FFA lesson plan on professional texting etiquette. Through discussion and a video activity, students identify when texting is not the best form of communication and learn how to use texting appropriately in a professional setting, recording texting do’s and don’ts on an accompanying chart handout.

At a glance

Learning objectives
  • Identify a situation when texting is not the best form of communication.
  • Understand how to use texting in a professional setting.
Time required
15 minutes
Materials
  • A copy of the “Texting Do’s and Don’ts Chart” for each student.
Resources
FFA.org

Downloads & Links

Aligned Standards

AFNR Performance Element

  • CS.01Analyze how issues, trends, technologies and public policies impact systems in the agriculture, food & natural resources career cluster.

Common Career Technical Core

  • AG1Analyze how issues, trends, technologies and public policies impact systems in the Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources Career Cluster.

Common Core – Math Practices

  • CCSS.MP3Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

Common Core – Speaking and Listening

  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1.CPropel conversations by posing and responding to questions that relate the current discussion to broader themes or larger ideas; actively incorporate others into the discussion; and clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions.

NASDCTEc

  • AGC02.01Use oral and written communication skills in creating, expressing and interpreting information and ideas including technical terminology to communicate technical information within AFNR.

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