Grade 7th - 8th
Lesson 1
Healthy Relationships
50 min
Lesson Overview
This lesson explores healthy and unhealthy relationships, with an emphasis on understanding how to navigate ending a relationship. Additionally, students analyze what it means to give (or not give) consent within their own personal boundaries and how to handle situations involving sexual harassment.
Objectives
1. Demonstrate skills for building and maintaining healthy relationships.
2. Describe healthy was to express friendship, affection and love within relationships.
3. Understand and practice refusal skills to reinforce personal boundaries to avoid dangerous situations in dating/romantic relationships.
Classroom materials
Handouts
Quicklnks
how to prepare for this lesson
https://youtu.be/FPAIAlrXnIk*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.