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Content Area: Health and Physical Education
Index: 2.4A Grade 8 CPI 7
Standard: 2.4 - Human Relationships & Sexuality
Strand: A - Relationship
Cumulative Progress Indicator: 7 - The student will describe the signs of an unhealthy relationship and develop strategies to end it.
Grade: 8
Sample Activities:
· IF YOU ARE IN LOVE - Solicit responses to this statement: “If you are in love, you...” Each student prioritizes his/her top fifteen answers. Divide the class into small groups, each with an equal number of males and females, to compare lists. Pose the following questions to each group: “Are there differences in response by gender? What are the differences? What are the similarities? What are the most common responses?” Groups discuss the similarities and differences and then share their observations with the entire class. To complete the activity, students select one statement and write an essay justifying their selection.
· IN LOVE WITH MUSIC - Students listen to several popular songs that focus on love, then answer the following questions: “What are the messages in the songs? Do the messages support a realistic image of love or are the images romanticized?” Explain that some of the images may even be negative or destructive. Each student selects a song, analyzes the messages, and describes the impact the song might have on young people forming ideas and establishing relationships. Variation: Students focus on the image of love and romance on television shows or movies.
· DEFINING LOVE - Divide the class into two groups. One group represents visitors from another planet and the other group represents inhabitants of Earth. The Earthlings must answer the visitors’ questions about love. (All the visitors know are the images of love they have seen in Earth satellite transmissions, which are mostly television shows.) The Earthlings must explain, in as simple terms as possible, what love is, how love is expressed, and the role of love in human life. Students may role-play, mime, or create illustrations to support their explanations. After the activity, ask both sides: “How difficult was it to define love? How hard was it to ask the right questions? How often was love confused with sex?”
· COMMITMENT - Many cultures have ceremonial expressions of commitment, such as the wedding ring. Ask students: “What outward signs of commitment are displayed by married couples?” After discussion, assign students to interview couples who have been married 5 years, 15 years, 30 years, and longer. From the interviews, students develop a definition and examples of commitment and share their ideas with classmates. After discussion, the class reexamines the definition of commitment.
· WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? - Discuss the difference between sex and love. Ask: “Do some people consider sex and love one and the same?” Allow time for discussion, then divide the class into groups. One group member serves as facilitator and another as recorder. Each group discusses one statement similar to the samples shown below. Allow students time to discuss the statement. The facilitators of each group participate in a panel discussion of the statements. Classmates comment on the proceedings. To conclude the activity, each student selects one statement, corrects/revises it, then justifies the changes. Sample statements might include the following:
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Sometimes when things are going well in a relationship, sex can
help improve the relationship.
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