5/ 6th Grade
Friendships
Coming up this week: Healthy Friendships
This week 5/6th grade scholars will be discussing Healthy Friendships. These lessons focus on the issues scholars face surrounding friendships during adolescence. This topic is important because while friendships are vital throughout life, peer groups and social relations among friends gain increasing importance during puberty and adolescence. As the peer group becomes a more significant source of influence, friendships begin to take on new meaning. During puberty, children will be making new friends at school and in social settings, and many will also be coping with evolving friendships from their earlier childhood. Friendships are often put to the test during senior elementary and secondary school. Children struggle to maintain relationships with peers who may be changing in a variety of ways. Problems can occur when children form “cliques,” begin to “hang out” with different crowds, or when they simply grow apart from previous friends. Peer pressure can be a problem for adolescents. For example, sometimes young people who choose to use drugs and alcohol try to persuade their friends to do the same. Inevitably, the friends children choose will shape their experiences in critical ways. These lessons are designed to compel students to think about their own criteria for postive friendships, to discuss ways to evaluate friendships and to explore ways to deal with difficult situations in their friendships. Lessons provided by Changes In Me: A Puberty and Adolescent Development Resource for Educators
This week 5/6th grade scholars will be discussing Healthy Friendships. These lessons focus on the issues scholars face surrounding friendships during adolescence. This topic is important because while friendships are vital throughout life, peer groups and social relations among friends gain increasing importance during puberty and adolescence. As the peer group becomes a more significant source of influence, friendships begin to take on new meaning. During puberty, children will be making new friends at school and in social settings, and many will also be coping with evolving friendships from their earlier childhood. Friendships are often put to the test during senior elementary and secondary school. Children struggle to maintain relationships with peers who may be changing in a variety of ways. Problems can occur when children form “cliques,” begin to “hang out” with different crowds, or when they simply grow apart from previous friends. Peer pressure can be a problem for adolescents. For example, sometimes young people who choose to use drugs and alcohol try to persuade their friends to do the same. Inevitably, the friends children choose will shape their experiences in critical ways. These lessons are designed to compel students to think about their own criteria for postive friendships, to discuss ways to evaluate friendships and to explore ways to deal with difficult situations in their friendships. Lessons provided by Changes In Me: A Puberty and Adolescent Development Resource for Educators
LESSON PLAN
5th.6th_friendlships_nest.pdf | |
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SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS
friendship_stop_light_game_cards.pdf | |
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wanted_ad_for_a_friend.pdf | |
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