Health · Week 4 · Mental, Emotional, and Social Health
Green Flags, Red Flags
Students read short texts between imagined friends and family members, sort behaviors into green flags and red flags, and explain how each one feels from the other person's side.
- Students will
- Students analyze the qualities of healthy peer and family relationships by sorting behaviors in sample messages.
- SEL skill
- Take someone else's perspective to judge whether a behavior is healthy
- What it looks like
- Students take the perspective of each person in a relationship and describe how behaviors might make them feel.
- Content focus
- Qualities of healthy peer and family relationships
- Format
- Card talk
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding other people's perspectives and showing empathy, including for people from different backgrounds. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 1.2.M: Mental, Emotional, and Social Health, Standard 1 (Essential Health Concepts), item 1.2.M
- Student page: Health journal page
- CA Health overarching standard: Standard 1: Essential Health Concepts
More social awareness activities for Health
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- Behind the Highlight Reel Social awarenessStudents compare an imagined influencer's polished posts with what likely happened off camera and discuss how feeds can shape how teens feel about themselves and others.
- Everybody's Doing It? Check the Data Social awarenessStudents guess what percent of high schoolers vape, compare their guess with national survey data, and discuss how believing everybody does it creates pressure.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.