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Seventh & Eighth Grade
LESSON
Five
Healthy & Unhealthy Relationships: Consent and Dating Violence
45 Minutes
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Lesson Overview
Students will continue to explore the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships. They will look deeper into the importance of consent, exploring what it looks like and what it does not. Students will understand how consent violations are related to dating violence, and ways to seek or offer help when dating violence occurs.
Lesson Objectives
- Define and discuss consent
- Understand what consent IS and IS NOT
- Learn more about sexual harassment and assault
- Explore ways to protect yourself and others, and how to report and seek help for sexual harassment and assault
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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.
There are small group breakouts within this lesson. Be prepared to split your students into small groups.