Learning to Fight Peer Pressure

After watching a short video about cyberbullying, individuals play an online cyberbullying game and then create their own Digizen that expresses their values and presents their vision for themselves, their friends, and the world at large.

Does a ban on vending machines infringe on student rights, or do school officials have an obligation to monitor foods sold on school grounds? Your class members will explore the educational, health, and financial issues related to...

Learners take on the role of a ten year old girl, "Jessica." Jessica's friend has moved away from the area and is texting people she doesn't know in chat rooms. Students work in groups to write a message for Jessica to send to her...

Students investigate human health by researching sexual health facts. In this puberty lesson, students identify the changes that will occur in a teenage body over the next several years and what the eventual outcome will be. Students...

Students read a news article about a boy in California who wants to encourage his peers to use good language. In this current events instructional activity, the teacher introduces the article with a short rap, discussion, and vocabulary...

Students identify important Americans from the colonial, revolutionary and slavery periods who are noted for standing up for their beliefs in the face of peer disapproval. They identify the importance of music in motivating and...

Students role play peer pressure situations and decision-making using cookies. They assess their own influences and reactions to the role play.

Students fight poverty. In this current events lesson, students research the listed Web sites to find out how Red Nose Day was established by Comic Relief to raise funds to fight world poverty.

In this activity, students will develop skits that deal with the following aspects of decision making: projecting possible long term impacts of a decision and taking risks.

Students learn about the Australian Minister of Fisheries and Wildlife and platypus as an endangered species. In this endangered species lesson, student role play as the Australian Minister of Fisheries and Wildlife to make a...