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Sixth Grade
LESSON
Four
Healthy & Unhealthy Relationships
45 Minutes
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Lesson Overview
In this lesson, students will create lists of feelings that are associated with healthy friendships and unhealthy friendships. They will use those lists to consider and discuss the characteristics of a healthy relationship.
Lesson Objectives
- Define a healthy relationship and its characteristics
- Define an unhealthy relationship and its characteristics
- Understand more about the neuroscience of connection and friendship
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Compassionate response reminder: Teaching prevention education helps provide students with language and tools to define and identify abuse. Often while teaching prevention education, students will disclose experiences of harm or abuse to trusted adults. This lesson is trauma-informed and has been designed to acknowledge the varied experiences students may have. Before teaching please be sure you feel equipped to respond to instances of disclosure with a compassionate, trauma-informed approach. Please also confer with other school staff on how to handle student disclosures and navigate sensitive topics raised during these lessons.