Peer Pressure

The teen years are nothing but a series of personal, social, and academic changes. Help kids understand what to expect as they mature and give them ways to make good decisions. After discussing they types of changes they'll go through,...

Middle schoolers are likely very familiar with the concept of bullying and cliques. Discuss their experiences and brainstorm ways to handle peer conflict and feelings of exclusion with a poem that focuses on bullying, and a second lesson...

Students read a news article about a boy in California who wants to encourage his peers to use good language. In this current events instructional activity, the teacher introduces the article with a short rap, discussion, and vocabulary...

Young scholars discuss what peer pressure means to them and give examples of peer pressure. They discover what assertiveness means and how to distinguish it from aggressiveness.

Middle schoolers study the Holocaust and explore peer pressure, prejudice and intolerance.

Students explore peer pressure. For this peer pressure lesson, students determine how peer pressure affects choice making. Students create a list of accomplishments that give them self-confidence. Students examine how peer pressure can...

Eighth graders will be able to explain what peer pressure is and what kinds of things peers pressure each other into. They read an article and write why it is a form of peer pressure if it is. They make a poster on the dangers of peer...

Sixth graders demonstrate the difference of giving into peer pressure and resisting it. They then will be able to write a short response to an article they looked up. They role play in front of the class on what it means to give into...

Students will be able to read a story/article together and explain a time that some form of peer pressure happened in their lives. They then explain their stories to the class.

Students watch a documentary film about arson and why children sometimes commit arson. They role play a scenario in which the school was deliberately set on fire. They develop a news report in which they interview three people regarding...