Grade 4th
Lesson 1
Violence Prevention
45 Minutes
Lesson Overview
This lesson gives students an opportunity to explore personal boundaries with various examples of safe, unsafe, and unwanted touches. Students also discuss strategies to help keep their school, home, and community safe. The lesson ends with students developing a personal list of their top 5 trusted adults to ensure that they have multiple people they could count on if they needed support in an unsafe situation.
Objectives
1. Define and understand consent and personal boundaries
2. Understand the importance of respecting the personal boundaries of others.
3. Identify trusted adults (in or out of school) to put in their safety plan.
Classroom materials
Handouts
Quicklnks
how to prepare for this lesson
*Compassionate response reminder*: Teaching prevention education helps provide students with language and tools to define and identify abuse. Often while teaching prevention education, students will disclose experiences of harm or abuse to trusted adults. This lesson is trauma-informed and has been designed to acknowledge the varied experiences students may have. Before teaching please be sure you feel equipped to respond to instances of disclosure with a compassionate, trauma-informed approach. Please also confer with other school staff on how to handle student disclosures and navigate sensitive topics raised during these lessons.
Powerpoint guide
• Italics are teacher notes (not to be read aloud)
• Standard text can be read verbatim to the class
• Yellow highlights are special considerations or modifications
There are small group breakouts within this lesson.
Be prepared to split your students into groups of 2-3.
If you do not have access to projection capabilities to present PowerPoint, feel free to print the presentation and use the notes for non-digital instruction.