Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.4A Grade 6 CPI 1

 

Standard: 2.4 - Human Relationships & Sexuality

 

Strand: A - Relationship

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator:  1 - The student will compare and contrast the interconnected and cooperative roles of family members.

 

Grade: 6

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR FAMILY - Students view excerpts from television shows that reflect various kinds of families (e.g., families with small children, families with teens, extended or blended families) and how those families communicate. Show one video clip at a time. While watching each video, students write whether the communication portrayed was healthy or unhealthy and whether the show portrayed families realistically. Students justify their answers. Divide the class into small groups and assign each group a TV family. Students in each group share their written ideas and discuss them, noting how the family solved problems. Reconvene the entire class and brainstorm positive ways that families can solve problems. Each student develops a coupon book containing positive actions he/she can do, within the next week, to promote a healthy family. Coupons might include a statement such as “I will listen to all sides of an issue” or “I will cooperate with my brother to clean up the yard.” As the week progresses, students write the date and time they performed the action on the back of the coupon. On the last coupon, students write a brief summary of what actions were taken and how other family members received the actions.

Variation: Modify this activity to focus on communication with peers. Students develop a coupon book and require other students to sign it to verify that the actions were taken.

 

·        QUALITIES OF AN IDEAL PARENT - As students describe the ideal parent, write their ideas on the board. Students discuss the ideas and defend their answers. Next, students create an ad for an ideal parent. Each student develops the ad, citing the characteristics he/she feels are most important. Students share their ads with classmates.

Variation: Using the ads developed in the previous activity, would a teen parent qualify to be an ideal parent? Why or why not?

Variation: Students write a job description for a parent based on real-life activities. Students may need to interview a number of parents to accumulate information for the job description. After the job descriptions are developed, students answer the following questions:
-        Does this sound like a job you would want? Why or why not?
-        What are the advantages and disadvantages?
-        What kind of training is required to become a parent? Should training be required?