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( LESSON 23 Grades 7-8
Objective
Learner Outcome
There are skills to practice that will lead to a healthful lifestyle.
Practice skills in saying no.
Comprehensive.
Education
Health
Topic(s)
I Human Growth and Development
II EmotionalHealth "
V Family Life Education
Values Integration
Respect for Self: Behaving in accordance with one's values and beliefs.
Respeerfor Others: Acceptance and appreciation for the values and
beliefs of others.
Reasoning: Thinking for oneself.
Self-discipline: Saying no.
c Motivating Activity Role-play:
The teacher will ask ,two volunteers to leave the room. The teacher
willthen prompt the class to play a group role in which they pretend
they are at afriend's house and urge the volunteer students to have a
drink.
The volunteers,
The volunteers
Identification Students will identify:
while outside, are told to resist the class's urgings.
are brought back into the classroom.
., actions and words used by class to urge volunteers to drink
• .actions and words used by volunteers to say no
Students
will identify:
• feelings of class as they continued to urge volunteers to drink
• feelings of volunteers as class continued to urge volunteers to
drink
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Effective Communication
After large-group activity of role-playing, the class will discuss reactians.
Then the class will be broken up into triads with two situations
to role-play:
1. Your best friend is pressuring you to try a drug and you don't
want to.
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