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Mission: Mind Mastery

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Lesson Plan

Session 1 Lesson Plan

Students will learn to plan and organize tasks by identifying, prioritizing, and scheduling upcoming activities using a daily planner template.

Strong planning and organizational skills help students manage workloads, reduce stress, and build habits essential for academic success in middle and high school.

Audience

6th Grade

Time

30 minutes

Approach

Interactive activities where students plan, prioritize, and organize tasks.

Materials

Session 1 Slide Deck, Planning & Organization Worksheet, Daily Planner Template, Index Cards, Sticky Notes, and Timer

Prep

Prepare Materials

10 minutes

Step 1

Warm-Up

5 minutes

  • Display a messy desk image on Session 1 Slide Deck
  • Ask: “How would you find your homework if your desk looks like this?”
  • Facilitate brief discussion on the importance of organization

Step 2

Introduction to Planning & Organization

5 minutes

  • Present definitions of planning and organization using slides 2–4 on Session 1 Slide Deck
  • Prompt students to share one strategy they currently use to stay organized

Step 3

Planner Race Activity

10 minutes

  • Distribute Daily Planner Template
  • Explain students have 5 minutes to fill out the next day’s schedule with tasks and times
  • Start timer; when time is up, have students swap planners with a partner to check completeness
  • Debrief: Discuss what was easy or challenging about planning

Step 4

Worksheet & Discussion

7 minutes

  • Hand out Planning & Organization Worksheet
  • Students list five upcoming tasks and prioritize them (urgent vs. important)
  • Facilitate a class discussion: Why did you prioritize tasks as you did?

Step 5

Closing Game - Organization Bingo

3 minutes

  • Prepare index cards with various school tasks (e.g., finish worksheet, pack backpack)
  • Call out a task; students check their planner and place a sticky note on their planner if they included it
  • First student to collect three sticky notes shouts “Bingo!” and explains how their planner helped
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Slide Deck

Session 1: Planning & Organization

Welcome to Mission: Mind Mastery! In this session, we’ll learn how to plan and organize tasks so you feel in control of your schoolwork.

Welcome everyone! Introduce Session 1: Planning & Organization. Explain this series helps build executive functioning skills.

Objective & Why

• Objective: Learn to plan and organize tasks by identifying, prioritizing, and scheduling activities using a daily planner
• Why it matters: Good planning and organization help you manage workloads, reduce stress, and build habits for school success.

Read the objective and “why.” Emphasize that these skills save time and reduce stress.

Warm-Up: Messy Desk

Messy Desk Image
• How would you find your homework if your desk looked like this?
• Why is staying organized important?

Show the messy desk image. Ask: “How would you find your homework if your desk looks like this?” Guide brief discussion on why mess makes tasks harder.

What Are Planning & Organization?

• Planning: Deciding what you need to do and when
• Organization: Keeping materials and tasks arranged so you can find and complete them easily

Share one strategy you already use.

Define planning vs. organization. Ask students to share one strategy they already use.

Daily Planner Example

Here’s how a daily planner might look:

Time | Task
8:00 am | Math homework
8:30 am | Science review
9:00 am | Pack backpack

Notice how tasks are listed by time.

Explain the daily planner template. Show an example of a filled-in planner on the slide.

Activity: Planner Race

  1. Distribute your Daily Planner Template.
  2. You have 5 minutes to fill in tomorrow’s schedule.
  3. When time’s up, swap with a partner to check completeness.
  4. Debrief: What was easy? What was challenging?

Introduce the Planner Race activity. Emphasize filling in tasks quickly and clearly.

Worksheet & Discussion

  1. Complete the Planning & Organization Worksheet.
    • List five upcoming tasks
    • Mark each as Urgent or Important
  2. Discuss: Why did you prioritize the way you did?

Hand out the Planning & Organization Worksheet. Prompt students to list and prioritize tasks.

Closing Game: Organization Bingo

• Index cards list common school tasks.
• Listen for each task; place a sticky note on your planner if you included it.
• First to get three sticky notes yells “Bingo!” and explains how planning helped.

Explain Organization Bingo. Encourage quick thinking about tasks they’ve included.

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Worksheet

Planning & Organization Worksheet

Materials: Daily Planner Template

1. List five upcoming tasks

  1. ________________________________


  2. ________________________________


  3. ________________________________


  4. ________________________________


  5. ________________________________


2. Prioritize each task

For each task above, write U if it’s Urgent, I if it’s Important, or U/I if it’s both.

  1. ___


  2. ___


  3. ___


  4. ___


  5. ___


3. Reflection

Why is it helpful to differentiate between urgent and important tasks?










4. Scheduling Practice

Choose one task from your list and schedule it in your planner using the Daily Planner Template.

Time: ____________________



Task: ____________________


How will scheduling this task help you stay organized and reduce stress?





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Activity

Great! We’ll skip creating a separate Planner Race Game activity since it’s fully detailed in the Session 1 Lesson Plan under the Planner Race Activity step.

Let me know if you’d like to adjust anything else for Session 1 or move on to planning Session 2!

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