Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.2D Grade 8 CPI 2

 

Standard: 2.2 - Integrated Skills

 

Strand: D -   Character Development

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 -  The student will compare and contrast the characteristics of various role models and the core ethical values they represent.

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        PEER PRESSURE INTERVIEW - Students interview a parent, guardian, or other adult about peer pressure they experienced as a teenager. Students ask the following questions:

 

      -        When you were a teenager, do you remember feeling peer pressure? What was it like?
-        In what areas and at what age did you worry most about what your friends thought?
-        How did you resist peer pressure?
-        Did you ever have an embarrassing moment as a teen as a result of any of this? Tell me about it.

Students share the responses and develop a list of peer resistance strategies used by the adults. Ask: “Are some of the strategies used in the past still effective today?” Meeting in small groups, students develop a list of at least five refusal strategies to use when confronted with peer pressure. Students
create and perform a role-play illustrating one of the strategies. Students complete the exercise by developing a class list of “100 Ways to Say No” and create a poster, mural, or bulletin board illustrating the list.