Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Identifying and Building Healthy Friendships in 3rd Grade and Beyond!

Third graders will take part in a short role-play/experiment that will allow they to analyze the effects of different types of friendship groups on our school culture. Students will identify signs of a positive friendship or peer group and will come up with strategies to deal with signs of an unhealthy relationship.

Lesson Outline
Skills addressed from the Guidance Roadmap:
Caring Classmate 1. I can initiate positive peer interactions through identifying signs of a healthy peer group versus a negative peer group.  I know what a clique is and how it can negatively affect learning and make others feel excluded.


Write on the board “Signs of a healthy friendship group” and “Signs of an unhealthy friendship group”.  Make a list of student ideas about signs of each.  Introduce the term “clique” and how this relates to including or excluding others.  


Tell students we will be doing a whole group class role-play/activity regarding peer groups.  Students will be placed into groups and asked to take on characteristics of healthy and unhealthy peer groups for a short period of time.  

Students will be asked to reflect on the experience and discuss what to do if you feel you are in an unhealthy peer relationship/group.  

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