Middle School Executive Functioning Lesson: Planning & Prioritizing, Grades 6-8

A project is due in two weeks. What do you do first? It is easy to wait until it is almost due, and then everything feels urgent. This lesson gives them two tools to fix that: Break It Down (list every step, put the steps in order, give each step its own day) and the Due Soon / Matters Most Grid (ask two questions of every task, then sort it into Do it first, Do it quickly, Plan a time or Later).

What's inside

• 15 slides, with speaker notes on all 15
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page
• Strategy Cards, 1 page: 2 cards plus 4 blank "My Own Strategy" cards
• Word wall cards, 2 pages: planning, prioritize and deadline
• Exit ticket, 1 page, two to a page

Answer key included

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