Health · Week 18 · Safety, Substances, and Community Health
Pitch for a Healthier Community
Teams choose a school or community health issue, build a short advocacy pitch with a clear ask, and practice delivering it to a decision-maker.
- Students will
- Students support health issues that promote community wellness and identify changes at school and in the community that promote safety.
- SEL skill
- Work as a team to communicate a clear, respectful message
- What it looks like
- Students work as a team, share roles, and communicate a persuasive message respectfully.
- Content focus
- Health advocacy for community wellness and safety
- Format
- Glow and grow
Relationship skills
Relationship skills mean building and keeping healthy relationships through clear communication, careful listening, cooperation, and working through conflict. More relationship skills 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
- 8.1.P: Personal and Community Health, Standard 8 (Health Promotion), item 8.1.P
- 8.1.S: Injury Prevention and Safety, Standard 8 (Health Promotion), item 8.1.S
- Student page: Health journal page
- CA Health overarching standard: Standard 8: Health Promotion
More relationship skills activities for Health
- Lines I Draw Relationship skillsStudents learn the three parts of a clear boundary statement and practice saying boundaries in everyday situations like borrowing, group chats, and time.
- Snack Swap Pitch Relationship skillsPartners compare two snack labels, choose a swap that offers more nutrients, and practice pitching it to a friend in a way that is helpful, not judgmental.
- Say It Like You Mean It Relationship skillsStudents learn four refusal strategies and rehearse them with imagined pressure scenarios, focusing on clear words, confident body language, and keeping the friendship.
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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.