Decision Making Lesson Plans

1. Decision Making- This lesson plan is written for use by a teacher educator working with teacher candidates in a classroom setting that allows online materials to be viewed by large and small groups.
2. Decision Making, Take a Seat or Get off the Bus- Students will be able to list the positive and negative consequences of choosing to fight against discrimination.
3. Decision Trees- These lessons are intended to encourage students to think about decision making in the context of a club who have made rapid progress up the league structure.
4. Making Good Decisions- To practice the skill of reasoned decision making. To encourage students to anticipate the consequences of their choices.
5. "Once a fact, always a truth"- To learn that what one thought was truth or factual can change and that change can result in totally rethinking the topic.
6. Peer pressure- To identify ways to cope with peer pressure to use tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
7. People Who Care- To identify adults in the community who care for the students.
8. Respect and Cooperation- The objective of this lesson is to help students learn to respect and cooperate with each other. The story Frog and Toad are Friends is used.
9. Responsible Decision-Making- Skills needed to make healthy and responsible decisions.
10. Scott's Big Decision, A Look at the Decision Making Process- Performance Expectations: The students will define the problem, list alternatives, state criteria to consider, and evaluate alternatives in terms of chosen criteria, through a chart, then interpret the chart to arrive at a decision.
11. Talk Show Skit- After studying a unit on tobacco and alcohol (or any unit) group students and have them prepare a skit about a talk show.
12. You Can Bank on Me!- Students will use a decision-making model to decide where to donate their collected money. They will evaluate what is most important to them and list possible choices.
13. You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover- This lesson helps young children understand that how something is packaged is not necessarily the way it really is.
14. You Can't Tell by Looking- Students try to determine the difference in medicine and candy just by looking at samples of both on a poster.
15. "With a little help from my friends?"- To learn that having friends is an important part of growing up, but being in charge of the friendship rather than allowing it to control you is also important.