Leadership skills don’t just appear; they have to be taught and practiced! Turn one day a week into a Leadership Skills Day with these plug-and-play, low-prep activities.
This pack has 6 independent 1-hour lessons all focused on the central skill of creative thinking – perfect for the beginning of the year or throughout!
Each lesson comes with a paired Warm-Up and Main Activity that complement each other to strengthen the lesson’s focus goal, and require no or very simple supplies like a deck of cards.
All 6 lessons contain:
- Detailed Lesson Plan with goals, focus skills, anticipated challenges, list of materials needed, step-by-step directions, and debriefing questions
- Warm-Up – a 5-15 minute low-risk activity to
- Main Skill Building Activity – a 30-45 minute central activity focused on practicing a key leadership skill, ranging from fun and competitive to reflective and serious
- Exit Tickets with reflection questions (print & editable Google Doc)
- Handout and worksheet materials to support the warm-up and main activities
These lessons make perfect emergency sub plans to keep on hand!
Note: two of the lessons involve obtaining and using the children’s books, A Beautiful Oops! and A Squiggly Story. Both are popular and easy to find online or at your local library.
This resource is 22 PDF pages, plus Google files.
What grades is this intended for?
This should work for either middle or high school students. I have used it with 9th through 12th graders, but these activities don’t require any high school-specific skills. Please read the description and examine the preview file closely to determine if it is appropriate for your students.
What supports are included? Can I modify this?
Detailed teacher directions and editable Google file versions of student materials are included so you can modify activities to suit your group’s needs and setting.
What are the terms of use for this resource?
This resource, including all ancillary files, may be used as needed for regular, non-commercial single-classroom use between a teacher and their students.
This includes printing copies and sharing digital files with students through a secure platform, like Google Classroom or Canvas, email, or a classroom-only shared drive.
The using and sharing of any part of this resource in any manner outside the above-mentioned capacity is strictly prohibited. Prohibited uses include, but are not limited to,
- posting files on the open internet or in a Facebook group
- emailing files to or sharing print copies with others (without purchasing additional licenses)
- uploading or storing files in a shared cloud drive accessible by anyone other than students
- including any part, or any derivative work, within any commercial endeavor like curriculum development, professional training, or for-profit teaching like Outschool, or selling this resource as your own in either print or digital formats
Doing so violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), copyright law, and these terms.
By downloading this resource from Let’s Cultivate Greatness, the original user has been granted one license for a single teacher (or number of teachers matching the number of licenses purchased) and their students at any one time.
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Reviews
This was a great resource for creativity in my gifted classroom. I enjoyed the activities in this bundle, and my students were very engaged. I am considering buying all the bundles based on the success of this one! – Amanda
I used this for a “free choice Friday” leadership elective. My colleague and I took some of the activities and used them for icebreakers, discussion prompters, and more. This is a very helpful resource that can be used in any classroom or camp setting! — Hannah
