Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will:
A. Relationships
1. Investigate how different family structures, values, rituals, and traditions meet basic human needs.
2. Discuss how personal independence, past experiences, and social responsibility influence the choice of friends in young adulthood.
3. Recommend strategies to enhance and maintain mature, loving, respectful, and healthy relationships.
For this lesson plan, I will be focusing on “Sex Ed,” but more specifically on human relationships. The purpose of this lesson plan is to learn about the many types of human relationships and different types of love. This lesson will discuss the different relationships people may have in their life (family, friends, boy/girl friends, marriage etc.) what makes a relationship healthy, what makes a good partner, and what love is. I will use a variety of activities that will: have the students think intra-personally, discuss opinions inter-personally in small groups, and promote class participation in forming new knowledge and ideas on human relationships. With this knowledge, students will be able to understand how the many different relationships work in one’s life, different types of love, be able to understand when a relationship is healthy or unhealthy, etc.
This lesson supports curricular unit objectives by focusing, thinking, discussing, learning, listening, applying and formulating new ideas and knowledge on the topic of human relationships.
Classroom Learning Activities
Open ended question: I will propose to the class using Power Point and open ended question. The question will read, “If you’re in love, you…”
I will ask the student to brainstorm on their own and write down as many responses as they can think of and then come up with a definition of love. We will then discuss the answers and highlight that love can happen between family, friends, pets, and/or spouses.
Agree or Disagree: On a Power Point slide I will display statements and have the students read and think about them individually. On a piece of paper, they will write Agree, Disagree, or Not Sure. Examples of questions would be: 1. When someone really loves you, they will show signs of jealousy. 2. By having sex, a person can prove they are in love. We will discuss as a class the students’ answers.
A Good Partner: In coed groups of 2-3, students will come up with their opinions of what makes a good partner. They will discuss: 1. Important/Not important qualities 2. Differences in qualities guys and girls look for. Each group will share with the class what they came up with. We will then discuss theses answers. I will also try to promote further discussion by adding to the list.
Healthy Relationship: In groups of 3-4, groups will have 5 cards. Each card has a scenario on it. The students must decide if it is a healthy relationship or an unhealthy relationship. When they decide, they will tape that card under the designated sign that I have posted on the board. Once all of the groups have done this with their cards, we will discuss the scenarios and see if any should be moved.
Student Learning Objectives
The objective of these activities is to help:
1. examine the word love
2. look at the qualities they look for in a partner
3. define the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships
Technology Used
1. Power Point
2. Internet: Planned Parenthood relationship videos from website
As stated earlier in the semester, technology is a tool. I feel it isn't always necessary in the classroom. This lesson is an example of that. I feel that the minimal technology use is fine. The point of the lesson is the knowledge and the application of the knowledge, not the technology.
Can students use technology to demonstrate their learning?
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