This two-week lesson teaches students about leadership through class discussions on traits of good leaders and how leaders serve others. Students will then work in groups to research and create a visual biography of an influential historical leader, answering questions about their name, birth information, attributes, character traits. The final products will be shared through the classroom digital folder for all to see examples of great leaders from history.

1. Great Leaders Serve
Grades 6-8
October 20, 2017
October 23, 2017
This is a two week lesson!

2. Tools
•Art supplies (if creating a paper poster)
•Markers
•Colored pencils
•Crayons
•Chart paper, construction paper, or copy paper
•Any other art tool
•Google Slide (if creating a digital poster)

3. Class Discussion
•What makes a leader?
•What makes a good leader?
•Name some leaders that have influenced
you.
•How can you become a leader?
•What character traits can you practice now
to make you an influential person?

4. •Read article
•Leaders Lead by Serving
•This may be done as a class, in partners,
in teams or as a teacher read aloud.
•Discuss how a leader should influence
service and giving back.

7. Activity
• In your groups, choose one leader from the list on the
next slide to complete a biography poster/slide where
you will do some basic research answering the
following questions:
• Name
• Date of birth
• Birth place
• Important attributes
• Character traits
• Class may begin now and complete it during the next
Monday Morning Leadership time.

8. Choose a leader to complete a bio-sketch
6th grade
• Mother Teresa
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Indira Gandhi
• Hillary Clinton
• Isabel Peron
• Martin Luther King,
Jr.
• Mario Molina
• Steven Hawken
• Nelson Mandela
7th grade
• Jeanette Rankin
• Hatshepsut
• Aung San Suu Kyi
• Shirley Chisholm
• Bill Gates
• Steve Jobs
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• Emma Watson
• Malala Wousafzai
8th grade
• Barack Obama
• Michelle Obama
• Rosa Park
• Maya Angelou
• Frida Kahlo
• Angela Merkel
• Paul David Hewson
(Bono)
• J. K. Rowling
• Jose Antonio Abreu

9. Final Product
• Using synergy, each team will research and create a visual
representation of the of the person selected.
• Students can choose different mediums to represent the person their
team has.
• Ideas:
• One PowerPoint slide/GoogleSlide
• Construction Paper
• Chart paper
• Computer paper
• Etc.
• Upload final product or photo to the MY WORLD folder of your
Digital Leadership Notebook. Click share so all team members have
the final product.

10. Depending on time,
teams may come to a
stop and continue the
following Monday.
Please send any
completed bio-sketches
to Ms. Hernandez in
Synergy!