Advocates for Youth
What Are My Relationships with Others Like?
Relationships are often the highest priority for teenagers, but they don't always have the maturity to navigate a healthy connection with peers or family members. A series of group activities prompt class members to interview their...
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Healthy Relationships Online
Chatting, texting, commenting—there are so many options for online communication! How do teens know what's appropriate? Social scholars collaborate to define the elements of a healthy online relationship during an activity-packed digital...
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is Love Supposed To Hurt? Discussing Violence in Relationships And Ways To Stop It
Students discuss violence and abuse in dating and family relationships, and how to recognize an abusive relationship, explore attitudes about healthy behavior in close relationships, and discuss ways to avoid and get out of unhealthy...
Hastings Prince Edward Public Health
My Life—My Relationships
How can you tell if your relationship is healthy or unhealthy? When can consent be withdrawn in a sexual encounter? Discuss important aspects of healthy relationships with high schoolers with a lesson plan that includes talk about...
Idaho Coalition
Teen Relationships
Collaborative activities teach adolescents to talk comfortably about teen issues. Class members identify eight factors of healthy relationships among friends, family, and boyfriends/girlfriends. These factors are then used to help...
Missouri Department of Elementary
Are You Balanced?
Balance scales create a strong visual of how an individual prioritizes one's self alongside their commitments to the community, school, and home. Scholars complete a graphic organizer then discuss their findings with their peers. A...
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Social Studies: Parent - Teen Relationships
Learners discuss the characteristics and responsibilities associated with parent - teen relationships. They compose lists of issues they have with their parents and explain how they feel about them. In groups, students write lists of...
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Purposes of Dating
So many options are included here for you to help your class explore dating, relationships, and types of love. These lessons are becoming more and more important due to media influences, so choose one of the 10 options to guide your...
King Country
Lesson 3: Relationships - Day 1: Self-Esteem
A sense of belonging, of being capable, of being appreciated, and the role these feelings have in our self-esteem is the subject of the third lesson in a family life and sexual health unit.
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Family Law - Domestic Violence
Young scholars take a closer look at domestic violence. In this family law lesson, students participate in a classroom simulation that requires them to define domestic violence and young scholars then discuss teen dating violence....
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Family Mealtime: Take a New Look
Students share their family mealtime experience. In this adult health lesson, students explain the benefits of eating together. They share ideas on how to make mealtime fun.
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Respect and Boundaries
Respect is a must-have in healthy relationships! Pupils explore their boundaries and identify the elements of respect during a lesson plan from a library of digital citizenship activities. The teacher's resource section contains a...
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FAMILY LAW - Domestic Violence (Teen & Adult)
Young scholars define domestic violence. They identify the signs of abusive relationships, determine community resources, identify what a healthy relationship is. and
discover facts about teen dating violence. They increase awareness...
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Touch and Abstinence
FLASH has put together another good instructional activity about touch and abstinence. Humans need human touch, yet many confuse this need for touch, and their desire for sex. Discuss the four types of touch with your health or teen...
Health Smart Virginia
Building Self-Esteem and Self-Image
The ninth lesson in the Health Smart series is designed to get high schoolers to understand the factors that make them feel the way they do about themselves, their bodies, and their self-worth. Pupils watch a video about teens and body...
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Relationships, Day 1: Self-Esteem
Expose your secondary special education class to the importance of belonging and feeling accepted. They define self-esteem, pride, and appreciation. Then create a self collage and share what they like about themselves with the class. A...
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Relationships, Day 1: Self-Esteem
Pupils explore self-esteem and create a self-portrait collage. They discuss things they like about themselves, things they are able to do on their own, and reasons people appreciate them. They demonstrate how to give and receive...
Missouri Department of Elementary
Juggling New Opportunities
Life is like trying to juggle three tennis balls! That's the big idea in a lesson that asks freshmen to consider that sometimes juggling the areas of their lives (social/emotion, academic, and career) runs smoothly and sometimes not so...
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Growing With Others, Kids on the Grow!
Students participate in an after school program that promotes accepting differences, self-motivation, teamwork, leadership roles, personal safety and self-responsibility, family unity and recognizing the characteristics of good...
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Learning to Love
Students discuss the different kinds of love and the characteristics of a healthy relationship. They examine types of behaviors that could make a relationship unhealthy and name components of love. They evaluate their current...
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Resistance to Parents
Middle schoolers examine family life issues. In this interpersonal relationships lesson, students discuss typical resistance to parents from teen children. Middle schoolers also discuss options for children dealing with difficult or...
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Guidelines for Sexual Health Information and Disease Prevention
Students describe effective sex education and its outcomes. They provide a tool for educators, policy-makers and others to evaluate existing or new programs, curricula or policies. Students comprehend that sex education refers both to...
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Everybody Needs Somebody
Students brainstorm feelings words and discuss what causes us to have feelings. Using artwork, they discuss how different artists show feelings and emotions. Using the internet, they research how other cultures express their feelings and...
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LABOR UNIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Students define and discuss labor unions in the United States. They compare and contrast labor unions in the United States and labor unions in Europe and Japan.