Lesson at a Glance
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Grade Six Phase I Lesson 2

I-5. Students will describe how friendships can involve positive and negative risks.

I-6. Students will demonstrate how to make and keep positive friends.

I-7. Students will practice effective listening skills.

• Gather the needed materials.
• Decide how you will form trios for Activities 1 and 3.
• Prepare the transparencies, Recipe for Rice Krispie Squares and Recipe for Making and Keeping Positive Friends, if they are not provided in your materials.  If you plan to develop your own recipe for making and keeping friends, you will need a transparency of the Student Worksheet, Recipe for Making and Keeping Positive Friends.  You will also need to prepare your recipe prior to class.
• Prepare a bulletin board space for a poster you will create as you proceed through this unit. During some lessons, you will be asked to place a puzzle piece on the bulletin board. The puzzle piece will represent a skill taught during the lesson. The skills will complete a puzzle for how to resolve conflicts peacefully. During this lesson, you will place the heading, Skills for Resolving Conflicts, and two puzzle pieces, Positive Friends and Listening, on the bulletin board.
• Duplicate Student Worksheet, Recipe for Making and Keeping Positive Friends; one per student or use student workbook.

Addenda
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• Equipment:  Overhead projector
• Bulletin Board Heading: Skills for Resolving Conflict
• Bulletin Board Puzzle Piece: Positive Friends
• Bulletin Board Puzzle Piece: Listening
• Poster: Be a STAR
• Transparency Master: Recipe for Rice Krispie Squares
• Transparency Master: Recipe for Making and Keeping Positive Friends
• Student Worksheet: Recipe for Making and Keeping Positive Friends
• Writing paper
• Pens/pencils
• Transparencies
• Non-permanent marker

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