This lesson takes defining the word “bully” a step further. By the end of this lesson, students will have a broader definition of what bullying is, how to identify it, and how to respond effectively if students find they are being bullied.
This lesson demonstrates the importance of setting personal boundaries and how to handle uncomfortable situations where their boundaries may be crossed.
This lesson is meant to define and help students identify different age-appropriate methods of HIV transmission, as well as ways to prevent it.
This lesson demonstrates positive ways to communicate differences of opinion while maintaining relationships as well as the importance of using refusal skills and how to walk away from a difficult and/or uncomfortable situation.
This lesson defines assertive, passive and aggressive communication and provides examples of each making connections to communicating about abstaining from sex.
This lesson starts by defining affection and having students provide examples of how people can show affection for one another.
This lesson teaches a decision-making model and helps students use it to think through a potential conflict in the school cafeteria.
This lesson stresses the importance of how we communicate as much as what we communicate and introduces aggressive, passive and assertive communication styles.
This lesson looks at influences on decision-making by analyzing a scenario and the people who impacted their decision including parents, teachers, friends, media, etc.
This lesson is about the importance of listening and communicating clearly and students rehearse those skills in pairs with a third students observing and providing feedback.
This communication lesson starts with a brief drawing activity completed by students in pairs to assess their own listening and communicating and analyze what strategies are effective or ineffective and why.
This lesson has students engage in an activity to practice making decisions in rapid succession and then reflect on the factors that impacted their choices.
This lesson was adapted and reprinted with permission from the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Our Whole Lives Grades 7-9 curriculum and has students reflect on a handout looking at their readiness to be sexually intimate with another person as a starting activity.