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LESSON

Respecting Myself and Others

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LESSON:	Respecting Myself and Others
CONTENT AREA:	Family Health and Sexuality
GRADE LEVEL:	Grades 4-5
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Synopsis

Students discuss the concept of "respect" and explore ways to show respect to others and to themselves. They play a card game to identify actions that show respect and discuss why certain actions show respect and why other actions show disrespect. Students work in small groups to develop two role-plays, one that demonstrates a situation showing respect and another that demonstrates lack of respect.

About this Lesson

Key Concepts

Respect for self and others

NHES Grades 3-5 Alignments

NHES Grades 6-8 Alignments

National Science Standards - Grades 4-5 Alignments

Science Standard NS.5-8.6 PERSONAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES: As a result of activities in grades 5-8, all students should develop understanding of: personal health, populations, resources, and environments, natural hazards, risks and benefits, and science and technology in society.

National Language Arts Standards - Grades 4-5 Alignments

National Physical Education Standards - Grades 4-5 Alignments

National Physical Education Standard 5: Exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings.

Objectives

Students will identify actions that show respect.

Students will analyze reasons people show respect.

Skill Emphasis

Analyzing Internal and External Influences

Preparation

Time Requirements

One 35-minute session.

Materials & Preparation

Copy student pages (one for each student):

Use the Respect Cards teacher page to prepare a set of cards for each group.

Copy teacher page:

Respect

Background Information

Teaching Steps

1. Students complete sentences about respect.
Student Page: R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Have students complete the sentence. Discuss their responses.
CONCEPTS
- Respect means holding someone in high esteem.
- Each person deserves respect.
- We show respect through our actions.
- Our view of self and others affects our actions.
2. Discuss ways to show respect to others.

Student Page: R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Ask for volunteers to read their responses to sentences 2 and 3. List the responses on the board. Have students brainstorm additional ways of showing respect. Add these to the list.
3. Students explore self-respect.

Student Page: Self-Respect
Divide class into groups of 3 to 4 students. Have students work with their groups to complete the student page. Discuss self-respect.

CONCEPTS
It is important to show self-respect.
We show self-respect through our actions.

4. Students play a game to identify actions that show respect.

Teacher Page: Respect Cards

Divide class into small groups. Instruct groups to divide the cards into two stacks. One stack will contain cards that describe actions that show respect. One stack will contain cards that describe actions that do not show respect.

5. Reflect, summarize, and discuss.

Ask volunteers to read the cards from the "respect" stack. Discuss why these actions show respect.

Ask volunteers to read the cards from the "lack of respect" stack. Discuss why these actions fail to show respect.

Ask students why some people show respect for others and some people fail to show respect for others.

Assessment

Small groups develop two brief role-plays. One role-play should depict a situation in which the players demonstrate respect for self and others. The second role-play should depict a situation in which the players demonstrate lack of respect for self and others. Groups present role-plays, and the class provides feedback.

DISCUSSION POINTS

In what ways did the players show respect?
In what ways did the players show a lack of respect?
Why do people show respect for themselves and others?

Assessment Criteria

CONCEPTS

Student work demonstrates accurate information by showing that:

Actions demonstrate respect.
Actions demonstrate a lack of respect.
There are reasons to show respect.

ANALYZING INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

Student work demonstrates proficiency by analyzing:

External influences on respect for self and others, such as family, media, and peer influences.
Internal influences on respect for self and others, such as self-esteem.

Synopsis

Key Concepts

NHES Grades 3-5 Alignments

NHES Grades 6-8 Alignments

National Science Standards - Grades 4-5 Alignments

National Language Arts Standards - Grades 4-5 Alignments

National Physical Education Standards - Grades 4-5 Alignments

Objectives

Skill Emphasis

Time Requirements

Materials & Preparation

Background Information

Teaching Steps

CONCEPTS

CONCEPTS

Assessment

CONCEPTS

ANALYZING INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

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