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Mahopac 404
LESSON 12 Grades 4-6
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Objective
There are skills to practice that wi1llead to a healthful lifestyle.
Learner Outcome Demonstrate respect for personal privacy.
Comprehensive Health
Education 'Iopicts)
II Emotional Health
V Family Life Education
IX Safety, First Aid, and Survival
Values Integration Reasoning: Recognizing potential threats to one's personal privacy
and safety and taking appropriate safeguarding actions.
Respect for Self: Asserting one's right to personal privacy and safety.
Motivating Activity The class discusses areas which impact personal privacy and safety:
Identification
ID right to set and uphold personal and physical limits
• right to express or withhold one's own thoughts and feelings
• right to protect oneself from possible harm
The teacher presents the following situation to the class:
Debbie is 11 years old. Her brother Don walks into the bathroom
when Debbie is taking a bath. Debbie is uncomfortable.
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Effective Communication Students will discuss why they have the right not to be intruded
upon or exposed.
Students will discuss how they would feel if they were Debbie and
what they would do.
Students, using puppets, will practice telling Don to stop intruding
on their privacy. .
Decision Making Students will decide what they think Debbie should do.
Students will decide what they would do if they were in the same
situation or a similar situation.
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Positive Health Behaviors Students will practice self-protecting behaviors which assert their
right to personal privacy and safety: .
• setting limits
o saying no
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