Lesson Plan : Peer Pressure
Teacher Name: | Mrs. Cordova |
Grade: | Grade 4 |
Subject: | PE and Health |
Topic: | Peer Pressure Refusal Strategies |
Content: | Health |
Goals: | |
Objectives: | The students will be able to: -Define Peer Pressure. -Describe nine effective peer pressure refusal strategies. -Demonstrate the use of effective peer pressure refusal strategies in a variety of situations, including pressure to use drugs. |
Materials: | strategy cards, 2 different colored fly swatters (pointers), scripts 1 and 2, Home Workout |
Introduction: | Tell the students a true story about something that happened to you when you were younger. Your friend and you use to ride bikes every afternoon. You use to ride through park trails. You and your friend heard that one day some kids were planning to drink beer in the park after school. Another friend of yours said, "You have to come! Everyone's going to be there." |
Development: | Ask the students if they know what kind of experience this is? -Peer Pressure If a friend wants you to do something you know you shouldn't, we call it peer pressure. When that happens you need a strategy. A strategy is a plan. Here are some possible strategies: -Steer Clear- avoid the situation -Say "No." -Walk Away -Ignore -Broken Record- Say the something over and over. Practice with the Script 1 and a volunteer. -Better Idea -Make an Excuse -Reverse the Pressure- Ask "Why are you pressuring me?" Practice with Script 2 and a volunteer. -State the Facts- Tell them the consequences. |
Practice: | Explain to students that now that they now the nine refusal strategies we are going to play a game called Swat. We will need two Swat Teams and a Scorekeeper (select a scorekeeper). Post the nine refusal strategies on the board and divide the class in two. Have them choose a Captain and give each of them a fly swatter. Explain that you will read several situations and the teams will rotate turns and swat whichever strategy is being used. First team to swat gets the point. -Domenic offered Paul some chewing tobacco. Paul said, "No thanks." (Say No) -Ricky wanted Ray to skip school. He wouldn't take no for an answer. Ray said, "Why are you pressuring me? I said no." (Reverse the pressure) -Ryan wanted Frank to sneak out one night. Valerie said, "My parents would ground me for a year." (state the facts) -Sonny walked to a party at Tom's house. Tom met him at the door and said, "Hi Sonny. Grab a beer from the kitchen." Sonny turns around and goes home. (walk away) -Louis wanted to throw rocks at cars. He said, "We don't have anything else to do, come one it will be fun." Terry said, "I have a better idea, let's rent a movie." (better idea) -Randy and Mark went to the mall. Randy wanted to take some CD's from the store. He kept whispering the Mark, "let's take some." Mark pretended he didn't hear anything. (Ignore |
Accommodations: | Model some of the situations and ask students to choose a strategy to refuse the peer pressure. |
Checking For Understanding: | Make sure that the teams understand which of the nine refusal strategies is being used. Have student write on the Home Workout Sheet their responses and check for understanding |
Closure: | Revisit each of the nine strategies. Tell them that these are all good ways of not letting others pressure you into doing something you don't want to do. |
Evaluation: | Throughout lesson monitor for understanding. |
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