Grade 3 Lesson Overviews:
Unit 1 Skills for Learning: listening to show respect, using positive self-talk, communicating respectfully to express needs, and demonstrating assertive communication in response to scenarios.
Unit 2 Empathy: naming feelings, understanding other perspectives, how to manage conflicting feelings, accepting similarities and differences in others, showing compassion and social skills to form new friendships.
Unit 3 Emotion Management: identifying physical clues to help with naming emotions, managing anxiety, handling accusations, how to deal with disappointment, and strategies to deal with hurt and anger.
Unit 4 Problem solving: how to handle blaming language, explore positive and negative consequences of conflict, demonstrate assertive communication, resisting peer pressure and recalling these strategies.
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Bullying Prevention Unit:
Lesson 1 Recognizing Bullying: students will learn to identify and recognize bullying in scenario discussions.
Lesson 2 Reporting Bullying: students will demonstrate methods of reporting bullying.
Lesson 3 Refusing bullying: students learn to apply assertive communication skills to refuse bullying.
Lesson 4 Bystander Power: students will learn how to stop bullying by avoiding to be a bystander.
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Child Protection Unit:
Lesson 1 Ways to stay safe: students will learn to identify common safety rules.
Lesson 2 Always ask first rule: how to identify asking a trusted adult for guidance.
Lesson 3 Safe and Unsafe Touches: identify, refuse and report unsafe touches.
Lesson 4 Keeping private parts private: identifying body parts and when to report situations where someone breaks the touching rule.
Lesson 5 Practicing staying safe: learning to avoid keeping unsafe secrets.
Lesson 6 Reviewing safety skills: practicing continued reporting until someone helps.
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