Day One: Healthy/Unhealthy Relationships
Family Relationships
Goal: to introduce foundations of a healthy
relationship, communicating effectively, and
identify unhealthy ones/resolving conflict
Standards: 8.1.7, 8.2.4, 8.2.7
Objectives: Students will be able to establish
the difference in healthy vs. unhealthy
relationships, learn how to effectively
communicate
Materials:
 Glencoe Health Book
 Comic on Communication
 “Healthy vs. Unhealthy” Article
Anticipatory Set: Comic on Communication-
students will answer questions about the comic
for bell work
Purpose: To be able to distinguish why
communication is key to successful
relationships.
Activities:
 Overview of unit-PowerPoint on
Healthy/Unhealthy Relationships
 Post-It-Notes on Article: Healthy
vs. Unhealthy Relationships
Article
 Role-Play: Skits on a healthy vs.
nonhealthy relationships
Closure: Respond to the lesson by filling out an
Exit Slip.
Assessment:
Formative: Exit Slip on what the students
learned- What is an example of healthy vs.
unhealthy relationships.
Adaptions: Students with learning disabilities
will be given note sheets to fill out along with
the PowerPoint lesson. During the Role Play,
the students with a learning disability will be
grouped with a student who will provide
guidance and make them feel included in the
group.
Key: Text Set, Literacy Strategies, Writing Strategy, Vocabulary Strategy, Technology Strategy
Day Two:
Dating Relationships
Goal: to understand the different family
structures, role of family, and dealing with
family crisis
Standards: 8.2.1, 6.8.WT.4
Objectives:
Students will learn about the different types of
family structures and understanding how to
deal with trials in their life.
Materials:
 Glencoe Health Book
 Article “Relationships with
parents and families”
 Trials Poem
 Book Club Handout
Anticipatory Set: Trials Poem-
Read-a-loud
Purpose: To encourage discussion and have a
deeper understanding of families.
Activities:
 Introduction on Family
Structures
 Group Discussion: “Relationships
with parents and families”
 Haiku Poem Activity
 Book Club Meeting
Closure: Turn in assignment paper to confirm
their book of choice and roles.
Assessment:
Formative: Exit Slip on today’s lesson- What is
the importance of having a role model in your
life?
Adaptions: Students with ADHD will be given
either flexible seating or manipulatives to have
during discussion time to make them more
calm and focused.
Day Three: Day Four: Peer/Friend Relationships Day Five:
Peer Pressure and Refusal Skills
Goal: to evaluate the positive and negative
Goal: to establish an understanding of healthy and effects of peer relationships Goal: to establish good refusal skills and
abuse dating relationships and the use of learn how to say no to unhealthy
abstinence. Standards: 8.2.2, 8.2.3, 8.4.9, ISTE 2.b, ISTE behaviors
6.b
Standards: 8.2.9 Standards: 8.4.2, 6.8.WT.4
Objectives: Students will learn how
Objectives: Students will gain knowledge on the friendships have an impact on your physical Objectives: Students will learn steps of the
difference between a healthy and unhealthy and emotional health and develop refusal process to help say no to risky
dating relationship. strategies. behaviors.
Materials: Materials: Materials:
 Wonder  Glencoe Health Book  Glencoe Health Book
 Fault in our Stars  Frayer Model Worksheet  Your Move
 Music Songs  Computers (Research and  RAFT handout
 Love is poster PowerPoint)
 Markers  KWL Chart Anticipatory Set: Bell Work-Peer Pressure
Anticipatory Set: Anticipatory Set: Social Media- Bell Work Purpose: To gain an understanding in
Love is… Questions refusal skills and apply it to their life when
- Have students come to the board needed.
and write words or phrases in the Purpose:
heart on what they think love is To encourage students to make good Activities:
- List of questions will be discussed choices on keeping friends who make an  PowerPoint Notes
after the students fill in the heart impact on them.  Your Move-Partner Read
 RAFT
Purpose: To gain a greater understanding of Activities:  Unit Test
different types of dating.  Frayer Model Worksheet
Impact of Social Media on Closure: Class discussion on thoughts
Activities: Peers- KWL Chart about the story Your Move and include
 Introduction on Dating Relationships  Advertisement Project ideas from RAFT writing prompt to the
and Abstinence discussion.
 Music Lyrics-3 to 5 songs Closure: Turn in evaluation forms of the
 Book Club Meetings advertisement activity. Assessment:
 5 question quiz Formative: Exit Slip- What was meaningful
from the lesson that can be used outside
Closure: Turn in 4 observations from assigned Assessment: of the classroom?
reading Formative: Student evaluation forms and
advertisement projects Summative: Unit Test
Assessment:
Formative: Turn in 4 observations from assigned Adaptions: For students with writing
reading Adaptions: Students with a learning difficulties will be given RAFT papers with
Summative: Quiz disability will be in a group to help guide specified blocks that will give them a clear
them along in the project, the student will picture of how much to write.
Adaptions: Students who are intellectual or ELL not have to write, they can contribute ideas.
learners can have a copy of the music lyrics in Communication and cooperation will be
front of them so they can visually see the words. required.