Subject(s): Other, Math, P.E. & Health Grades(s): Grades 6-7

Title – Positive & Negative Effects of Peer Pressure

By – Jennifer

Primary Subject – Health / Physical Education

Secondary Subjects – Math

Grade Level – 6

Strand/Content Area – Protecting Self and Others

Competency Goal

The learner will interpret health risks for self and others and corresponding
protection measures.

Objective(s)

Healthful Living 3.06 Differentiate between positive and negative effects of
peer pressure.

Math 4.02 Analyze data using spreadsheet.

Materials

Microsoft Excel or Spreadsheet software

Review

Teacher will ask students if there are any questions about using the spreadsheet
software.

Focus

Randomly choose 2 or 3 students to help out with a pop quiz. Chosen students
will be the students who have been secretly informed to pressure some of the
other students to cheat on the pop quiz being handed out. All students are
informed that this is not for a grade but they need to take the pop quiz. The 2
or 3 chosen students will try to pressure others to cheat during the quiz. After
the quiz ask if there were any problems, questions, or concerns about the quiz.
If no one admits to the cheating then the teacher will bring it up and reveal
that the "cheaters" were acting. Begin a discussion about how being pressured to
cheat made the students feel. What were the positive and negative effects of
cheating?

Statement of Objectives

At the end of this lesson the students will be able to discuss the positive and
negative effects on peer pressure by interpreting their spreadsheet data.

Teacher Input

Students will form groups of 3 or 4 and begin a discussion about the different
types of peer pressure that they may have faced or that they have learned about.
They will brainstorm what peer pressure is and how it affects students.

Guided Practice

Students will use Microsoft Excel to generate a spreadsheet of types of peer
pressure and their effects. They will generate 3 columns. The first column will
be the type of peer pressure. The second & third columns will be the positive &
negative affects. Students will then compare the information and tell which ones
they feel are most important to know.

Independent Practice

Students will write a journal of their own account of peer pressure. They will
explain what the peer pressure was and ways that they did or could have dealt
with the pressure.

Closure

Today students have recognized different types of peer pressure and the positive
and negative effects that peer pressure has on students. They have used
Microsoft Excel to organize and display their information.

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