💚 8th Grade · Health & SELNHES 4Unit 2: Healthy relationships & communication

Healthy vs unhealthy relationships

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🎯 Objective: Students compare characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships.

Lesson outline

  1. Sort cards.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one sign of a healthy relationship.

Lesson 1 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”.

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