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Mahopac 376
LESSON 5 Grades K-3 C)
Objective
There are skills to practice that will lead to a healthful lifestyle.
Learner Outcome Show an appreciation of one's own uniqueness and the uniqueness
of others.
Comprehensive Health
Education Topic(s)
Values Integration
I Human Growth and Development
II Emotional Health
Respect for Self: Feeling good about oneself and what makes one
unique.
Respect for Others: Respect and acceptance of the uniqueness of
others.
Motivating Activity
The class will create a bulletin board illustrating different people engaging
in a variety of activities.
Identification Students will identify those characteristics that make them unique:
• physical characteristics
• behavior
• talents
• feeling responses to situations
Students will identify that they share some of these characteristics
with others.
C)
Effective Communication Students will discuss the similarities and differences illustrated on
the bulletin board.
Students
will discuss what it feels like to be different.
Decision Making Students will decide how they are the same and how they are different
from other people.
will decide how they can help each other to accept them-
Students
selves.
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Positive Health Behaviors Students will practice behaviors that demonstrate respect for their
own uniqueness and that of others, such as:
• acceptance of physical characteristics
.. recognition of talents (~'\ ,~)
• acceptance off
eelings
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