Changing Families, Changing Roles

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5TH GRADE VIRTUAL HEALTH

L23: Your Digestive System| L24: Food - Nutrients for the Body | L25: MyPlate | L36: Influences on Your Food Choices | L27: Food Labels & Advertising | L28: Changing Families, Changing Roles| L29: Communication in Families | L30: Growth Comes in Stages | L31: Growth, Heredity, and the Endocrine System | L32: Dealing with Adolescence | EXTRA: Choices You Make Affect Growth

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Changing Families, Changing Roles

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Standard(s), Essential Question(s), Big Idea(s)

LEARNING TARGET / SUCCESS CRITERIA

I will identify the kinds of changes that families experience.

I will describe how children's responsibilities change as they mature.

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PRE-INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY

Vocabulary

mature - grow older, more responsible and helpful

empathy - understanding other people's needs and feelings

negotiate - resolve conflict in a give-and-take way

volunteer - giving of your time and energy without getting paid money, because you want to help someone else

OPENING (Engage)

Main Idea

Changes happen all the time. While some changes are pleasant, others can be difficult. Family members can support each other in times of change.

Why Learn This?

Being a responsible member of your family and community makes you feel good about yourself.

WORK PERIOD (Explore/Explain/Extend/Elaborate)

READ: Changing Families, Changing Roles

Changes happen all the time. The shoes you wore last year probably don't fit anymore. You have a new teach this year. Families move in and out of your neighborhood. These changes happen with little effort on your part.

But some changes do require effort. When a family experiences a big change, family members need to help each other. As you grow older, or more mature, you can become more responsible and helpful in your family.

What changes do families experience?

Most of the changes you experience are pleasant ones. Each year you become one year older. You might grow taller until one day you are as tall as your older brother or sister. You make new friends at school and in your neighborhood. You get better at playing the piano and reading books. You are responsible for doing jobs at home that you weren't old enough to do just a few years ago.

Families experience pleasant changes, too. Your family may invent specials traditions. New friends may be invited to join family gatherings. Your family may try new foods or learn about computers together. Your house may change to reflect the changing styles, interests, and tastes of your family members. Through all kinds of changes, family members find new ways to work and have fun together.

But sometimes families experience major changes that are not so easy, such as a divorce, a remarriage, the birth or adoption of a baby, a move, or a death in the family. When a major change happens in a family, each family member needs time to adjust to the change. Big changes challenge family members to support each other.

When parents divorce, family members may feel fear, anger, sadness, or confusion. It may be hard to eat or sleep for a period of time. In the beginning, divorce is not easy for anyone, but most people adjust to a divorce over time. When parents divorce, their children have many questions. 

Talking with trusted adults or friends can help. It is also useful to remember that most parents love their children and try not to do anything the hurt them. Sometimes, however, sad feelings can't be avoided. These feelings change as family members adjust to the changes in their lives.

Some changes, such as a parent's remarriage, may be welcomed by some family members but not by others -- at least not at first. Members of both families experience many different kinds of feelings. Some may not be sure where they fit into the new family. All the new family members need to take time to adjust and be patient with each other.

The birth of a baby is another change that may affect family members in different ways. Although parents may be happy about the new baby, other children in the family may need time to adjust. A new baby means more responsibilities for parents and perhaps less time for the other children. It's common for the older children to feel a little jealous and left out. In this situation the older siblings need to try to be patient and take time to get to know their new baby brother or sister. They can also find ways to help out and make things easier as everyone adjusts to the new family member.

Moving to a new house or city can be both exciting and sad. A person may feel happy to be living in a new house but sad about leaving old friends or an old school. It may take time to make new friends and to feel comfortable in the new neighborhood and school.

A death is one of the most difficult changes a family can experience. A death in the family causes many different kinds of feelings. Talking about these feelings with a parent or family friend can help. It is also good to write in a journal or to find other ways to remember the person who died.

Changes are not always easy, but they always happen. By working together, family members can support each other during both good times and bad.

Ways to Deal with Change

Changes in Your Family

• Learn to be patient with yourself and with other family members.

• Talk with family members, trusted adult friends, or friends your age who have had similar problems.

• Ask a librarian to help you find books that can help you.

• Remember that things are always changing. You will not always feel the way you are feeling right now.

What are your responsibilities as a family member?

When you were very young, your parents were totally responsible for you. They helped you with almost everything. As you grew older, you did more and more things without their help. You learned to feed yourself and dress yourself, and later you learned to pick up your toys and make your bed.

Now you have matured even more. You are old enough to be a helpful, supportive member of your family. You can listen respectfully to other people's ideas and opinions, even when they differ from your own. You can feel empathy (EM-puh-thee), which means you can understand other people's needs and feelings. You are also old enough to be able to negotiate (nih-GOH-shee-ayt), or resolve conflicts in a give-and-take way.

Being a more responsible family member means that the people in your family can trust you and depend on you. You set a good example for your younger brothers and sisters. If you have jobs to do, you can do them without being reminded. You do a job as well as possible and are willing to listen to suggestions about ways to do it even better. When you make a mistake, you take responsibility for it instead of making excuses.

What regular jobs do you do at home? Maybe you help out by spending time with a younger brother or sister. Perhaps you clean your room, feed and walk the dog, take out the trash, or help with laundry. When you do a job that helps the whole family, you feel proud of yourself for doing your part.

Sometimes you may do special jobs to help your family. You might help your mother or father clean kitchen cupboards. You might help organize the garage, paint the fence, or even weed the garden.

As you get older, it's fun to stop and think about the jobs you can do now that you couldn't do when you were younger. When your family counts on you to complete a job by yourself, you can feel confident that you are becoming a responsible family member.

Some families like to work together as volunteers in their neighborhood or community. When you volunteer (vah-luhn-TIR), you give of your time and energy. You are not paid in money. You do things because you want to help someone else.

People of all ages have important talents to give to their communities. Families can volunteer together to help build or fix up houses, clean up parks or streams, or feed people who do not have enough to eat. Families also can donate time to read to elderly people in care centers or hospitals, or gather blankets and warm clothing for people in need.

It feels good to give your time and energy to the community. Volunteering is a way for family members to spend time together working for a common goal. What could your family volunteer to do together in your neighborhood or community?

If you learn now to be a responsible member of your family, neighborhood, and community, you can be certain that when you grow up, you will know how to be a responsible citizen. You will be able to take good care of yourself. You may even be responsible for other people someday.

REMEMBER...Changes happen all the time. While some changes are pleasant, others can be difficult. Family members can support each other in times of change. Being a responsible member of your family and community can make you feel good about yourself.

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Standard(s)

HE5.1a - recognize the relationship between healthy behaviors and disease prevention

HE5.1b - describe and apply the basic personal health concepts of healthy eating and physical activity

HE5.1c - describe and apply the basic health concept of mental and emotional well-being

HE5.1d - describe and apply the basic health concept of personal hygiene and safety

HE5.1e - distinguish the short and long-term physical effects of use and/or misuse of substances

HE5.1f - identify trusted adults and when it might be important to seek health care or emergency help for themselves or others

HE5.1g - identify the changes that occur during puberty

HE5.1h - distinguish between tattling, reporting aggression, bullying, cyberbullying, and violence (physical and/or sexual) and how to report these instances

HE5.1i - identify strategies to avoid physical fighting and violence

HE5.2a - evaluate the influence of family and peers on personal health behaviors and decisions

HE5.2b - describe how the school and community can support personal health practices and behaviors

HE5.2c - explain how media/technology influences thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors

HE5.3a - identify characteristics of valid health information, products, and services

HE5.3b - access resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information

HE5.3c - assess the characteristics of valid health information, products, and services

HE5.4a - apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health

HE5.4b - model effective nonviolent strategies to manage or resolve conflicts

HE5.4c - demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health and the health of others

HE5.5a - identify health-related situations that might require a thoughtful decision

HE5.5b - list healthy options and possible consequences to a health-related issue or problem

HE5.5c - predict the potential outcomes of each option when making a health-related decision

HE5.5d - analyze when assistance is needed in making a health-related decision

HE5.5e - choose a healthy option when making a decision

HE5.5f - describe the outcomes of a health-related decision

HE5.6a - set a personal health goal and track progress toward its achievement

HE5.6b - identify and utilize resources to assist in achieving a personal health goal

HE5.7a - practice responsible personal health choices

HE5.7b - demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors to preserve or enhance personal health

HE5.7c - model a variety of behaviors that prevent or decrease health risks to self and/or others

HE5.8a - review accurate information and develop an opinion about a health issue

HE5.8b - advocate for positive health choices

Essential Question(s)

1. What changes have you experienced in the last year?

2. What are some benefits of negotiating?

Big Idea(s)

1. Changes you have experienced in the last year may include growing taller, having more difficult homework, having more responsibilities, and having a new best friend.

2. Benefits of negotiating may include the ideas that negotiation provides an opportunity for people to find a workable resolution that meets each person's needs. It also allows each person to move on and not be hindered by continuing conflict or by the lack of resolution to a problem.

RESOURCES / INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

• see below

DCSD Board-Approved Instruction Materials

• Your Health: Teacher's Edition - Grade 5. Harcourt Brace & Company. 1999.

Technology

• Google Sites - HPE website

• Chromebook

• large video screens for whole-class viewing

• sound system for sharing of audio

• Anger - BrainPOP, Jr.

• Conflict Resolution - BrainPOP

• Divorce - BrainPOP, Jr.

• Empathy - BrainPOP, Jr.

• BrainPOP - Body Systems

  • BrainPOP - Circulatory System

  • BrainPOP - Digestive System

  • BrainPOP - Endocrine System

  • BrainPOP - Nervous System

  • BrainPOP - Respiratory System

  • BrainPOP - Urinary System

• Senses

  • BrainPOP - Balance

  • BrainPOP - Eyes

  • BrainPOP - Hearing

  • BrainPOP - Smell

  • BrainPOP - Taste

  • BrainPOP - Touch

• BrainPOP - Body Weight

• BrainPOP - Broken Bones

• BrainPOP - Carbohydrates

• BrainPOP - Eating Disorders

• BrainPOP - Fats

• WBrainPOP - Fitness | At-Home Fitness

• BrainPOP - Growth

• BrainPOP - Heart

• BrainPOP - Metabolism

• BrainPOP - Muscles | Steroids

• BrainPOP - Nutrition

• BrainPOP - Obesity

• BrainPOP - Personal Hygiene | How Soap Works

• BrainPOP - Salt

• BrainPOP - Skeleton | Joints