FCS Exploration
Lesson Plans

Strand 5

Students will exercise the social and emotional skills related to Human Services.
*Performance Skills for this strand included below

Standard 1

Demonstrate character traits necessary to be successful in school, personal life, and future employment.

• Activities that Teach Values
  These activities help students identify and evaluate their personal values.
• Consumerism
  Students will be able to identify image and information ads, define consumer goods and services, explain teen consumer spending impacts.
• Dangers of Labeling and Stereotyping
  This lesson discusses the dangers of labeling and stereotyping ourselves and people around us. It also discusses ways that we can avoid those behaviors.
• Decision Making
  Activities to be used in a lesson on decision making.
• Goal Setting
  Students discuss the importance of setting goals, then set goals, and keep a record of their achievements.
• Minding Your Manners
  This unit helps to emphasize the importance of proper manners and etiquette in creating a positive self-concept, developing communication skills, giving good first impressions, and having appropriate social skills. Specific meal etiquette is presented during the foods unit.
• Nonverbal Communication
  A series of role plays by the teacher to illustrate how the body involuntarily shows how a person feels.
• Parents
  This lesson teaches students the value of parenthood and allows them to think about the type of parents they would like to be.
• Peermanship
  This lesson is an attempt to help adolescents master skills that will help them establish behavior patterns and social attitudes useful in building healthy, rewarding social relationships throughout life.
• Personality Development
  This lesson reviews personalities; how they are developed, how they influence our lives and what we are like, etc.
• Responsible Relationships
  This lesson contains activities that help build responsible relationships.
• Self-Awareness
  These are a series of worksheets to be used in helping students get to know themselves better.
• Time Management
  If we are to make a success of our lives, we must learn successful time management.
• Values and Goals
  This is a unit on values, goals, and decision making. Students complete a practical application assignment.

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