Extension Activities
Relationship Skills | Grades 4-5
Learning Goal 2: Cultivates constructive relationships with others.
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Go back: Intervention Ed.
Benchmark 1: Recognize the difference between positive and negative relationships and identify behaviors that contribute to each.
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Talk about the impact of social media on relationships.
Ask students to respond to a journal prompt and then share in pairs or in small group about the difference between positive and negative relationships.
Lead a group discussion that asks students to identify behaviors that contribute to positive and negative relationships.
Benchmark 2: Recognize the value of friendships with a variety of individuals.
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Understand the difference between safe and unsafe behaviors in a relationship.
Ask students to interview family members and develop a report on their friendships.
Benchmark 3: Identify a problem in a relationship and know how to seek appropriate assistance such as asking for peer mediation or adult assistance, etc.).
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Teach a lesson on a conflict resolution strategy: stop and calm down, take turns stating the problem using I- statements, consider options and together choose one and try it out.
Encourage students to use the conflict resolution strategy any time there is a conflict. Assist them in working through the process.
Benchmark 4: Demonstrate capacity to engage in cooperative learning and working toward group learning goals with peers.
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Play a group game that has a common goal that students work toward together as a team.
Benchmark 5: Distinguish between positive and negative peer pressure.
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Teach a lesson on peer pressure – negative and positive. Brainstorm examples of peer pressure with students.
Ask students to respond to a journal prompt about a time they experienced positive or negative peer pressure.
Routinely provide authentic feedback when you notice students exerting negative or positive peer pressure.
Routinely encourage students to encourage their peers in positive ways.
Routinely discourage students from urging their peers to engage in risky or negative behaviors.