Define the word "skills." The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a "skill" as people's ability to use their own knowledge effectively and readily or as a learned power of accomplishing a task competently.
Define the word "strategy," defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a careful plan or method, or the art of devising or employing plans toward a goal.
Ask your students to make a list of their abilities. Discuss the fact that abilities are activities at which people excel or can complete with ease. Abilities can range from riding a bike to reprogramming a computer.
Make the point that people need skills to develop strategies. Inform your students that a strategy is the manifestation of a skill set, designed to reach a goal. For example, computer programming skills enable people to develop a plan to fix a computer.
Ask your students to provide examples of how they can use their identified skills to create working strategies. Check to ensure they understand the difference between the two by checking that the skill sets they have identified match the strategies they have developed.