Influences on Your Decisions

Students will be learning about what all influences their decisions.

Duration
Less than 1 hour
Lesson Type
Traditional Lesson

Essential Question

Why is it important to evaluate the different influences in your life?

Grade(s):

  • 6
  • 7
  • 8

Subject(s):

Other Instructional Materials or Notes:

Lesson Progression

Influences on Your Decisions
 
Student Objectives:

  • TSWBT explain the influence of your family on your decision making
  • TSWBT describe how your peers influence your decisions
  • TSWBT analyze the effect of the media on your decisions
  • TSWBT explain why it is important to evaluate the different influences in your life

 
 
Equipment:

  • Laptop/Computer
  • Influences on your decisions Powerpoint
  • Influences on your decisions activity

 
 
Task 1: Do now

  • Have students write about a decision that they have made in the past week. Have the students list all of the different factors that influenced that decision.

 
 
Task 2: The teacher will go over the influences on your decisions PowerPoint. The teacher will talk about

  • Family being a major influence
  • Peers being an important influence
  • Peer Pressure
  • Media/Advertisement being an influence

 
 
Task 3: Influences on your decisions activity
 

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