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💚 7th Grade · Health & SELNHES 4Unit 2: Healthy relationships & communication

Assertive communication

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🎯 Objective: Students practice assertive, not aggressive or passive, communication.

Lesson outline

  1. Model.
  2. Role play.
  3. Reflect.
  4. Exit: one assertive 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 6–8)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe healthy and unhealthy relationships
  • Use assertive communication

✅ 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 “Healthy relationships & communication”

  1. Healthy vs unhealthy relationships
  2. Assertive communication
  3. Digital citizenship

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