21st Century 6th Grade Learners

This lesson requires that students find a song (g-rated) that has a leadership message in it. Students have to create a presentation about the song and the lyrics, and tie it to leadership. This lesson has students think outside the box and is really fun because students can use any school appropriate music they want to!
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This lesson introduces students to the differences between media and digital media. Students work through what media and digital is and how they each effect students daily lives.
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This lesson is an online lesson that tests students web surfing skills. It is interactive, so students stay engaged. Plus, there is a quiz at the end to test students knowledge of web issues.
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This lesson includes several activities for students to complete that teach students about different types of communication: verbal and non-verbal, and what makes communication effective.
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This lesson teaches students about non-verbal communication and how body language and non-verbal cues are interpreted.
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This goal of this lesson is for students to discuss and come up with coping strategies for different emotions. This can be useful in the classroom, as it has students categorize their coping strategies as positive, negative, neutral, and “time-out.”
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With this lesson, students analyze a poem and learn how emotions can be expressed through words and metaphors.
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This link offers several activities that are all based off of a video that students will watch about a kid who opened a lemonade stand. The activities introduce students to business/financial vocabulary, the ethical decisions you have to make when running a business, and how to determine the best neighborhood for your business.
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Throughout this lesson, students participate in an activity about risks, and relate their own risks to those that famous entrepreneurs have taken. Students then discuss what it means to be an entrepreneur and can even take a self assessment ot determine how entrepreneurial they are!
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This lesson includes two different activities. On day 1, students learn what Fairtrade is, and create a presentation that informs their peers about Fairtrade and how it can help or hinder producers. On day 2, students learn about the benefits that Fairtrade has for certain countries/producers and how interdependent the world is when it comes to food!
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This lesson familiarize students with how different places and cultures around the world are portrayed in different ways by different types of media.
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In this lesson, students will use Quandary, an online game, to make choices. They have to problem solve their way through a futuristic life by making “real life” choices with “real life” consequences.
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Click on the link, then download the lesson made by MathGiraffe! I like this lesson particularly because it has to do with numbers. Students are put into groups and are given a set of cards, and have to figure out how the cards go together. Eventually, students realize that they will need to listen to what other groups are saying and work with another group to solve the puzzle.
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Though this is not a lesson plan, it is a link to 10 different games that you can play with your middle school students to promote working together as a team, problem solving, and critical thinking!
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