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Teen Living
This course helps students understand and cope with personal, family, and social challenges. Emphasis is paced on communication, decision-making skills, and building stable relationships with family and peers. The course enables students to implement positive coping mechanisms and promotes understanding of self. It addresses issues that impact teenagers: self-concept, family and peer relationships, substance abuse, personal loss, dating and teenage pregnancy, and child abuse. Emphasis is placed on students taking personal responsibility for life. FCCLA may be an integral part of the course.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Teen Living Standards
9th Grade Course Disclosure Teen Living Scope and Sequence 1 Teen Living Scope and Sequence 2 Teen Living Scope and Sequence 3 STANDARD 1
Students will discuss and participate in activities to help them deal with teenage transitions.
Development Tasks 
Teen Tater Resource The Color Code Color Information
Objective 2: Discuss and analyze the various emotions associated with the teenage transitions.
Developmental Tasks
Emotions Lesson Plan
Six Basic Human Emotions
The Difference in How Kids and Adults See Things
Uncontrolled Emotions
Objective 3: Identify and recognize personal communication styles and discuss the importance of quality communication skills as they relate to relationships.
Communication
Objective 4: Describe and practice critical thinking skills.
Critical Thinking and Good Judgment
Objective 5: Define the term “good judgment” and identify “responsible behavior."
Class Activity
Not Everyone Hit By a Drunk Driver Dies
Teen Drinking
Teen Living 4-Way Test
Teen Slang
Texting While Driving Video Link
Objective 6: Define the term “role model” and evaluate the importance of role models.
Objective 7: Explain and participate in activities that deal with gender.
STANDARD 2
Students will discuss the importance of families and the role each student plays in their family.
Family Help with Family Unit
Objective 2: Discuss and explore the relationships of teens and their parents/guardians.
Objective 3: Discuss sibling relationships and how they affect the family (rivalry, friendship and support.)
Objective 4: Discuss the importance of the teen relationship with senior/elderly adults.
STANDARD 3
Students will discuss the dynamics of peers and friends.
Objective 2: Discuss and identify types of friendships (acquaintances, casual, close, and intimate.)
Objective 3: Explore the dynamics of group associations.
The Buttercream Gang
Objective 4: Explore various types of refusal skills (stay calm, make eye contact, be assertive, repeat if necessary, walk away.)
Objective 5: Explain the difference between feeling lonely, being alone and being rejected.
STANDARD 4
Students will discuss adolescent attractions to the opposite sex.
Objective 2: Identify the purposes and the importance of group socialization and examine why each adolescent is not ready to pair at the same time.
Dibble Training for Connections: Relationships and Marriage
Objective 3: Explain the difference between infatuation and love.
Objective 4: Discuss reasons and motives for dating.
Dating
Objective 5: Analyze the importance of social etiquette and practice appropriate techniques.
Etiquette Dinner Restaurant Extrodinaire Menu
Objective 6: Determine appropriate behaviors related to physical intimacy.
STDs
STDs Presentation Notes
STDs Presentation Notes Key
Objective 7: Discuss why teenagers are not ready for the demands and responsibilities associated with parenthood.
Baby Project Ideas
Child Abuse
Flour Baby