Middle School Executive Functioning Lesson: Focus & Distractions, Grades 6-8

What pulls your attention away? Students start with 30 seconds of quiet noticing and find that some distractions are in the room and some are in their own heads. This lesson sorts them into inside and outside distractions, because each kind needs a different fix: change the space for outside ones, and give inside ones somewhere to go.

What's inside

• 17 slides, with speaker notes on all 17
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page
• Strategy Cards, 1 page: 3 cards plus 3 blank "My Own Strategy" cards
• Word wall cards, 1 page: focus and distraction
• Exit ticket, 1 page, two to a page

Answer key included

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