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Title: Time Management

Grade: 8
Career Development Model:
Self-Awareness • Career Planning & Management
Nebraska Career Readiness Standards:
• Communicates effectively & appropriately
• Makes sense of porblems & perserveres in solving them
• Demonstrates innovation & creativity
• Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competence
• Manages personal career development
• Attends to personal & financial wellbeing
Objective:
Students will analyze how they use time and how it impacts their ability to achieve
goals.
Materials and Supplies Needed:
N/A
Class Instructions:
1. Ask students what activity they think they spend the most time on every day; is it
sleeping, being in school, watching TV, etc.?

2. Pass out the “How I Spend My Time” handout. Instruct students to fill out the handout
with how many hours they think they spend doing each activity in an average day.
They will fill out one for Monday - Friday and one for the weekend. Students should
also rate on a scale of 1-5 how important they think each activity is.

3. Explain to students for the next week they should keep track of how much time they
spend on these activities. At the end of the week they should average up the hours
and fill in the remainder of the handout. Weekdays and weekends will remain
separate.

4. When students finish the handout, facilitate a class discussion about their findings. Be
sure to discuss the following:
a. Did they make accurate guesses of how they spend their time?
b. Was anything surprising?
c. How much time did they spend on the activities that they rated as important
compared to those they rated less important?
d. Are they happy with the way they spend their time? If not, how could they
change it?
e. When they get older, do they think the way that they spend their time will
change drastically? How?
f. How does time management effect your ability to accomplish goals?

Credits/Sources:

https://www.csuohio.edu/cehs/mmfw/making-my-future-work-0
HOW I SPEND MY TIME
Instructions: Fill out the following table with your estimate of how much time you spend in a typical day
on each activity. Your typical weekday and Saturday/Sunday should be separate estimates. The total for
weekday hours and the total for weekend hours should equal twenty-four hours. You should also rate
how important you think each activity is on a scale of 1-5.

1: Unimportant 2: Of little importance 3: Moderately Important 4: Important 5: Very Important

ACTIVITY WEEKDAY HOURS WEEKEND HOURS IMPORTANCE


School
Homework & studying
Sleeping
Watching TV
Chores at home
Eating
Pursuing a hobby
Being with friends
Working
Being with family
Reading for leisure
Other

Instructions: Keep track of how many hours you spend on each activity every day for a week. Fill in the
following table and sum up your totals for each activity for Monday – Friday and Saturday/Sunday.

ACTIVITY MON TUES WED THURS FRI TOTAL SAT SUN TOTAL
School
Homework & studying
Sleeping
Watching TV
Chores at home
Eating
Pursuing a hobby
Being with friends
Working
Being with family
Reading for leisure
Other
Instructions: Compute the average time you spend on each activity Monday – Friday and
Saturday/Sunday. To calculate the average for Monday – Friday, take the total for each individual
activity and divide that total by 5. To calculate the average for Saturday and Sunday, take the total for
each individual activity and divide that total by 2.

AVERAGE WEEKDAY AVERAGE WEEKEND


ACTIVITY HOURS HOURS IMPORTANCE
School

Homework & studying

Sleeping

Watching TV

Chores at home

Eating

Pursuing a hobby

Being with friends

Working

Being with family

Reading for leisure

Other

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