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Respecting Myself and Others
Grade Level: Grades 4-5
Content Area: Family Health and Sexuality
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.
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    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.