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💚 5th Grade · Health & SELNHES 4Unit 5: Responsible decision-making

Peer pressure and refusal skills

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🎯 Objective: Students practice refusal skills.

Lesson outline

  1. Model.
  2. Role play.
  3. Reflect.
  4. Exit: one refusal line.

Lesson 2 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

NHES 4

National Health Education Standards + CASEL SEL competencies (grade band 3–5)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use a decision-making model
  • Resist peer pressure

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

😀 Emotions dice⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Responsible decision-making”

  1. Decision-making steps
  2. Peer pressure and refusal skills
  3. Helping our community

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