Lesson 1: The Wisdom to Know the Difference Between Healthy and Harmful Relationships

• Recognize the value of relationships and their impact on the quality of one’s life.

• Describe characteristics of healthy (positive) and harmful (negative) relationships.
• Examine the potential impact of healthy (positive) and harmful (negative) relationships.
• Identify characteristics they possess which make them positive friends to others.

Lesson 2: Showing Respect and Acting Responsibly

• Review and practice listening skills.

• Identify respectful and disrespectful verbal, nonverbal, and physical behaviors between people.
• Examine responsibilities people have to one another as friends, family members, and acquaintances.
• Identify personal boundaries.

• review the skill of communicating boundaries to others.
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Lesson 3: Showing Respect and Acting Responsibly When in Conflict Situations

• Practice communicating boundaries.

• Describe conflict situations among peers.
• Identify the reasons conflicts go unresolved.

• Examine the individual, group, and societal influences that promote violence and disrespectful behaviors.
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Lesson 4: When Conflict Resolution Is Tough

• Review and demonstrate the skills of empathy, listening, and telling it like it is–with tact.

• Describe and demonstrate skills to manage anger.

• Describe and demonstrate skills for responding to the anger of others.
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Lesson 5: Finding a Solution to Resolve Conflicts

• Explain the steps used to solve problems and negotiate solutions.

• practice using the steps to negotiate a resolution to a conflict.
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Lesson 6:  Practice!  Practice!  Practice!

The students will:

• apply conflict resolution skills to hypothetical conflict situations.
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Lesson 7:  Keep Practicing!

The students will:

• Practice using conflict resolution skills.

• Recognize intimidating behaviors.

• Identify the possible consequences of intimidating behaviors.
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Lesson 8:  When Trying to Resolve Conflicts Is Not a Good Idea

The students will:

• Recognize intimidating behaviors and situations.

• Identify and practice skills for dealing with intimidation.
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Lesson 9:  Just Teasing OR Sexual Harassment?

The students will:

• Define sexual harassment.

• Explain the legal consequences of sexual harassment and the impact on relationships.

• Identify and practice skills for dealing with sexual harassment.
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Lesson 10:  Safety First!

The students will:

• recognize potentially dangerous situations.

• summarize skills and strategies for avoiding potentially dangerous situations.

• review refusal skills.

• identify safe ways to respond if violence occurs.
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Lesson 11:  Planning Ahead for Healthy Relationships–Part I

The students will:

• Describe characteristics they should look for in a person they want to date.

• Define violence within dating relationships.

• Summarize warning signs of potential danger in relationships.

• Identify societal expectations for males and females as one cause of abusive relationships.
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Lesson 12:  Planning Ahead for Healthy Relationships–Part II

The students will:

• Discuss how abusive relationships develop.

• Recognize the extent of the problem of dating abuse, assault, and rape.
• Describe ways to stay out of danger in dating relationships.
• Practice skills to avoid or escape a potentially violent dating situation.
• Examine laws related to sexual behaviors and violence.
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Lesson 13:  Getting Help:  A Sign of Strength

The students will:

• describe situations when help is needed.

• identify where help can be located and how to access it.

• summarize ways to get help for self or others.

• identify ways peers can be helpful to one another.
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Lesson 14:  Get the Word Out: 
Promoting Peace–Part I

The students will:

• Compose advice for peers on resolving conflicts and preventing violence.

• Recognize how peers can be positive influences on one another to establish a nonviolent norm.

• Design a method for sending a message to other students that violence is wrong.

• Commit to taking group action to promote peace.
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Lesson 15:  Get the Word Out: 
Promoting Peace–Part II

The students will:

• Complete the class project.

• Commit to taking individual action to promote peace.
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