Health · Week 13 · Safety, Substances, and Community Health
Say It Like You Mean It
Students learn four refusal strategies and rehearse them with imagined pressure scenarios, focusing on clear words, confident body language, and keeping the friendship.
- Students will
- Students demonstrate assertive communication skills to resist pressure to use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
- SEL skill
- Say no clearly while keeping a relationship respectful
- What it looks like
- Students communicate clearly and confidently while keeping relationships respectful.
- Content focus
- Assertive refusal skills to resist pressure
- Format
- Rehearse and coach
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
- 4.1.A: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs, Standard 4 (Interpersonal Communication), item 4.1.A
- Student page: Health journal page
- CA Health overarching standard: Standard 4: Interpersonal Communication
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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.