HEALTH UNIT PLAN HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS

HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS
UNIT PLAN
GRADE 6
2016

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Overview:
Students will be learning about healthy relationships over the course of this unit,
and will be able to identify red flags that signal an unhealthy relationship. Students will
additionally be able to recognize what emotional and physical abuse might look like, and
will understand who can help in abusive situations. Next, we will look at conflict and
what is means to get along with others in a healthy relationship. Students will recognize
the types of conflict that might occur in their ever day lives and how they might go about
resolving conflict.
The following topics will guide this unit:
Healthy relationships
Conflict Resolution
Empathy
Getting along
Peer Pressure
Online Safety
Bullying
Cyber bullying

Rationale:
It is very important that students learn about healthy relationships at this age.
Students will likely have current relationships, and will be forming new relationships on
an ongoing basis over the upcoming years.
Key Questions:
What does a healthy relationship look like?
Why is it important to form healthy relationships?
How can I recognize and deal with conflict?
How can I get along with others?
What is peer pressure and how can I deal with it/help others to deal with it?
How can I be safe online?
What does bullying look like and how can it be dealt with and prevented?
What does cyber-bullying look like and how can it be dealt with and prevented?
Major Objectives:
1. To understand what a healthy relationship looks like. How can you tell if a
relationship is healthy or unhealthy? Students will learn what can be done if they
know somebody who is in an unhealthy relationship.
2. To understand how conflict, peer pressure, and bullying can come into play in an
unhealthy relationship. Students will learn how to recognize these signs of an
unhealthy relationship, and the steps that can be taken to prevent further harm to
themselves or others.

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3. To understand what safe online behavior looks like. Students will be able to
identify reliable and safe websites. Students will additionally be able to recognize
why extra caution needs to be taken if establishing relationships online.
I Can Statements:
Relationship Choices Students will develop effective interpersonal skills that
demonstrate responsibility, respect and caring in order to establish and maintain healthy
interactions.
Understanding and Expressing Feelings:
I can develop personal strategies for dealing with stress and change; e.g.
humour, relaxation, activity.
Interactions:
I can apply a variety of strategies for resolving conflict.
Group Roles and Processes:
I can analyze the influence of groups and cliques on self and others.
Assessment and Evaluation:
Students will complete a group poster on a topic that will be assigned by me.
*See end of unit plan for the group poster project.
Links to other areas of the curriculum:
The health curriculum is intertwined with other subject areas in many ways. Any
personal responses that students write in social studies or language arts reflect the way in
which students think about themselves and others. The reading and writing component of
this unit will reflect on skills acquired by students in language arts.
During our first topic, Healthy Relationships, students will be asked to write a
Relationships Bill of Rights & Responsibilities. This assignment will tie in nicely to our
social studies topic on the Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms.
Extensions/Modifications:
Healthy relationships
Conflict Resolution
Empathy
Getting along
Peer Pressure
Online Safety
Bullying
Cyber bullying

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LESSON PLAN
Subject: Health

Grade: 6

Date: , 2015

Lesson: Healthy Relationships

Red Flag
Time: 60 mins
I Can Statements:
Demonstrate responsibility for the safety of myself and others.
Develop strategies for effective personal management.
Instructional Objectives:
Students will:
Knowledge:
Recognize what a healthy relationship looks like.
Recognize the warning signs of an unhealthy relationship.
Skill:
Brainstorm ideas about healthy and unhealthy relationships.
Work effectively as a group.
Key Questions:
What is a healthy relationship?
What are some warning signs of an unhealthy relationship?
Materials:
-Red flag activity sheet/handout
-Poster paper

Lesson Procedure:
Discuss the following questions with whole group:
1. If your best friend were jealous, controlling, or hurtful, he or she probably
wouldnt be your best friend for long. But some people think its OK to tolerate
such behavior from a boyfriend or girlfriend. Why?
2. People often say that the foundation of a healthy relationship is a good friendship.
What does this mean? What are some of the qualities you would look for in both a
friend and a partner?
3. Do you think its easy or hard to leave an unhealthy relationship? What could you
do to help?

Qualities of a healthy friendship/relationship poster

o Pair students up. Give each pair a piece of poster paper and ask them to
brainstorm ideas about what they think a healthy relationship is.

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o Students will then have opportunity to share with the class.

Red Flag activity

o Were going to read a list of relationship situations. After each
relationship situation, raise your red flag if you think the behavior is
concerning in any way. At the end, well talk about what we learned and
discuss ways to get help if you ever find yourself in an unsafe situation.

Assessment:
o Observe as students raise or do not raise their red flags. Are students
understanding the warning signs of an unhealthy relationship?
o Observe and listen as students design and share ideas from their
brainstorming poster.

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LESSON PLAN
Subject: Health

Grade: 6

Date: , 2015

Lesson: Healthy Relationships Rights and Responsibilities

I Can Statements:
Demonstrate responsibility for the safety of myself and others.
Develop strategies for effective personal management.

Time: 60 mins

Instructional Objectives:
Students will:
Knowledge:
Recognize what a healthy relationship looks like.
Recognize the warning signs of an unhealthy relationship.
Understand that with any relationship comes various rights and responsibilities.
Skill:
Write a personal response (handout) to the question: What rights & responsibilities do I
have in my relationships?
Key Questions:
What rights and responsibilities do I have in my relationships?
Materials:
Relationship Bill of Rights and Responsibilities handout
Pen or pencil

Lesson Procedure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygWs9zrBF-o stranger awareness.

Discuss way to be safe.
Lessons in Friendship - story and worksheet

As a class, were going to create a list of relationship rights and responsibilities

the way you deserve to be treated and the way you should treat others. Lets start
with a few basics: You have the right to be spoken to with respect. You have the
right to be treated as an equal. And above all, you have the right to feel safe,
always. What are your other relationship rights? What are your relationship
responsibilities?
Each student will have the class to work on a handout.

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Assessment:
o Listen to students as they participate in class discussion.
o Take-in handout Relationships rights and responsibilities when complete
formative.

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LESSON PLAN
Subject: Health

Grade: 6

Date: , 2015

Lesson: Healthy Relationships Emotional and physical abuse

I Can Statements:
Demonstrate responsibility for the safety of myself and others.
Develop strategies for effective personal management.

Time: 60 mins

Instructional Objectives:
Students will:
Knowledge:
Understand the difference between physical and emotional abuse.
Understand what they can do if they know or hear about abuse that is happening.
Skill:
Identify what can be done if abuse is occurring. Who can help?
Key Questions:
What is emotional abuse?
What is physical abuse?
What can we do if we know that someone is being abused?

Lesson Procedure:
Class discussion:
*Remind students to take notes while we are discussing.
o Ask students what they think emotional abuse is?
Teasing, bullying, humiliation, threats, intimidation, putdowns, betrayal,
etc.
o Physical abuse?
Slapping, pushing, grabbing, shaking, smacking, kicking, punching,
pulling hair, etc.
o What can we do if we know that someone is being abused?
Any of the following: listen to him/her, believe him/her, dont judge
him/her, tell him/her its not his/her fault, dont talk badly about his/her
partner, offer to help him/her get help, etc.
o Where/who can we turn to for help?
Any of the following: parents, teachers, religious leaders, school nurses,
teachers, school counselors, doctors, crisis centers, teen help lines, abuse
hotlines, etc.
Relationships rights and responsibilities bill

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Tell students that we will have a short formative quiz next class study your
notes!!

Assessment:
Observe and listen as students contribute to class discussion.

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LESSON PLAN
Subject: Health

Grade: 6

Date: Friday February 12th, 2015

Lesson: Healthy Relationships Pink Shirt Day Time: 60 mins

I Can Statements:
I can analyze the influence of groups and cliques on self and others.
Instructional Objectives:
Students will:
Knowledge:
Be introduced to the topic of bullying and understand what bullying is.
Skill:
Participate in whole-class or small-group discussion.
Key Questions:
What is considered bullying?
What are some different ways that kids can be bullied?
When does teasing cross the line?
What are the effects of bullying?
Why do some kids bully others?
Materials:
http://classroom.kidshealth.org/
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJxWAYEcl_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjmf3I1_ZhU

Lesson Procedure:
Videos
Start by showing students the following videos. Videos will lead into a discussion
about bullying - what is bullying? How does it impact your life?
We will also discuss what pink shirt day is, how it started and who started it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJxWAYEcl_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjmf3I1_ZhU
Points to guide discussion:
1. What kinds of behaviors are considered bullying?
2. Name some different ways kids are bullied.
3. When does teasing cross the line into bullying?
4. Is name-calling bullying?

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5. Have you ever been bullied? How did it make you feel? Have you ever bullied
someone? How did it make you feel?
6. Have you ever spread a rumor? Why can spreading rumors be considered
bullying?
7. What are some of the effects bullying can have on victims?
8. Why do some kids bully other kids?
Reading Time
Students will have free reading time until recess.

Assessment:
Observe and listen as students contribute to class discussion.

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AFTER READING WEEK

LESSON PLAN
Subject: Health

Grade: 6

Date: , 2015

Lesson: Healthy Relationships Healthy relationships quiz & Conflict resolution Time:
I Can Statements:
Demonstrate responsibility for the safety of myself and others.
Develop strategies for effective personal management.
Instructional Objectives:
Students will:
Knowledge:
Recognize what a healthy relationship looks like.
Recognize the warning signs of an unhealthy relationship.
Understand the difference between physical and emotional abuse.
Understand what they can do if they know or hear about abuse that is happening.
Understand what a conflict is.
Skill:
Identify what can be done if abuse is occurring. Who can help?

Lesson Procedure:

Quiz Healthy Relationships

o Students will have approximately twenty minutes to complete the quiz.
START NEW TOPIC: CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Discussion Questions:
1. What do people do when they get angry? How does this affect others? Does it
help to solve the problem? What do you think are the best ways to handle
anger?
2. When you have a problem with a friend or classmate, what steps do you take
to solve it? How do you think other people affect the way you handle your
conflicts?
3. The goal of conflict resolution is to solve problems before they lead to
violence, whether verbal or physical. What strategies can people use to
accomplish this?

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LESSON PLAN
Subject: Health

Grade: 6

Date: , 2015

Lesson: Healthy Relationships ~ Online Safety Time:

I Can Statements:
I can demonstrate responsibility for the safety of myself and others.
I can develop strategies for effective personal management.
Instructional Objectives:
Students will:
Knowledge:
Understand that technology and the internet can be dangerous if used improperly.
Skill:
Exercise caution when using the internet.
Key Questions:
What is a fake identity?
What is cyberbullying?
What can you do if someone tries to contact you, ask for your personal information, or
cyberbullies you?
Materials:
Smartboard with access to internet
Dont Go Jo worksheet
Risky behaviours worksheet

Lesson Procedure:
Discussion:

What kinds of things do you like to do online on your computer or mobile

device?
How permanent do you think things you text or write online are? When you
post a picture or a comment, and then delete it a few days later, is it gone
forever?
If someone you make friends with online asks you to send your photo, should
you? What if an online friend asks you how old you are? Is it OK to give your
age, last name, street address, e-mail address, phone number, or other personal

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facts? What would you do? We should never agree to meet someone we dont
know in person.
Fake identities even you could change your whole identity online.
Cyber bullying
What can you do if someone tries to contact you or cyberbullies you?
Tell an adult.
Leave and if possible delete all of your personal info from the site. Delete
the site.

Video?*
Lilly and the Snowman
Dont Go, Jo
*May carry over to LA time.

Read a situation aloud to the whole class. Students will use the Dont Go, Jo
hand out to write a paragraph about how they could persuade their friend to
change her mind about meeting someone she has never met before.
Share as a whole class.

Risky Behaviors worksheet

Self-esteem character worksheet
SPONGE:
Share more examples.
Risky behaviors worksheet
LA story planner

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