Time Management: A MS Health Lesson

Created May 26, 2024 by Kelly Galbraith, Sean McClintick

Title of Lesson: Time Management

Course Name: Health

Grade Level: 6

Author’s Name: Sean McClintick

School District: Palmyra Area School District

PA Academic Standards for Health and Physical Education
10.2. Healthful Living 10.2.6.D. Describe and apply the steps of a decision-making process to health and safety issues.
PA Academic Standards for Career Education and Work
13.2. Career Acquisition (Getting a Job) 13.2.8.E. Explain, in the career acquisition process, the importance of the essential workplace skills/knowledge, such as, but not limited to: Commitment Communication Dependability Health/safety Laws and regulations (that is Americans with Disabilities Act, Child Labor Law, Fair Labor Standards Act, OSHA, Material Safety Data Sheets) Personal initiative Self-advocacy Scheduling/time management Team building Technical literacy Technology
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to analyze the relationship between the decision-making process and their ability to manage to use of a limited amount of time.
Instructional Procedure
5 Minutes	Big Rocks Show the video, “Rocks, Pebbles, and Sand Story.” Ask students to turn and talk with a partner: What are your big rocks?
30 Minutes	Opening Activity Introduce the opening activity and the rules for scoring the activity. The students will then be broken in to groups of 4-5 students. The students will then receive the list of possible activities. They have 10 minutes to complete as many activities on the list as they can. As they complete the activity they will cross it off of their papers. At the conclusion of the 10 minutes, the instructor will calculate scores on the board for the students to see what tasks were completed by each of the groups. The instructor will then lead the class on a discussion of the decision-making process and what led the groups to do the tasks that they selected. The instructor will ask what things they had to take into consideration before they committed a team member to an activity. The instructor will ask if there were any activities that they wish they would have attempted to complete in the 10 minutes that they didn’t. The instructor will also ask if there were any activities that they attempted or completed that they wish they hadn’t. The instructor will then review how a decision-making process can be applied to time management, so that the students can learn to sort the high priority things in their life so that they do not allow low priority things to inhibit them from achieving the things that they really want to do. The class will then compare the video that they watched at the beginning of class to the exercise they just completed.
Formative Assessment
Students will be given a reflection sheet prior to the end of class with 3 sections on it. In those three sections they will write down 3 examples of the big priorities (rocks) in their lives, the slightly important things (pebbles) in their lives, and the things (sand) that they would consider to be enjoyable but trivial.
Materials Needed
Opening Activity Reflection Sheet
References
Time Management Activities and Exercises - WorkSMART. (2017, July 11).