Positive Peer Pressure Is Captured Today

Jamin Gibson

Introduction:

The purpose of this lesson was to help students recognize the affect peer pressure has on physical activity participation and performance. This lesson was developed to help student’s better understand the importance of physical activity in their daily lives.

Brief Description:

The idea is to help create the student’s the understanding of collobrating together. They more or less all influence one another. They can help create an environment into a positive atmosphere by pressuring others to partake in being physically active everyday.

PE.8.5.03

Recognize the affect peer pressure has on physical activity participation and performance.

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This lesson is designed for 8^th grade physical education classes and involves mathematics and collaboration components. It will allow for the students to add and subtract things to use their math abilities. They also will be working in partners and groups. This will allow for them to work on their collaboration skills.

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The class is going to help the student’s ability to inspire others through positive reinforcement. It will be vitally important for the student’s to know how to positive influence one another and getting everyone involved. The idea of communication and inclusion will be the two most important factors for positive peer pressure to take a strong command.

Resources:

Key Website: http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/friend/peer_pressure.html

Process:

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The students will work with getting each other involved in daily participation. Thirty minutes of daily activity can help go a long way in being successful for everyone to avoid the #2 leading problem in the United States today; obesity. So the students will be collaborating together trying to keep everyone participating in being physically active. Everyone will work those students that they don’t know and keep each other active.

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The lesson will be organized for the students to be put in groups. The lesson itself will take three to four periods that are required. The setting is going to be classroom based. They are going to try and create ideas on keeping everyone actively involved. They will treat everyone the same and make sure everyone’s opinions and ideas are shared and heard.

Assessment/Evaluation:

It will be my understanding for the lesson to be successful if everyone is actively involved the whole lesson. It is vitally important everyone participates and shows they want to be a daily part of physical education class. It will show how they communicate their ideas to me, how they collaborate together as a group(s), and how they actively participate within the physical education class.

Question	Answer
1. What is a form of negative peer pressure?	What if your teen really doesn't like sports, but pushes himself to do it to please his friends or to be accepted? Therefore, he probably doesn't do too well at it, and gets only jabs at his self esteem from the very friends he is trying so hard to impress. That is another form of negative peer pressure.
2. What might happen if you combined positive and negative peer pressure?	What might end up happening is absolute chaos!
3. What ideas can you add to positive peer pressures that aren’t listed in this article already?	1.Practice positive peer pressure on yourself 2. Live life the way you would want others to practice life on themselves
4. How can positive peer pressure make a difference?	Motivation can be the difference between a healthy lifestyle and a health kick. Add a little positive peer pressure to your fitness plan for all the motivation you need to succeed.
5. What are positive peer pressure responses to get friends out of a tight spot?	We don’t want to drink. We don’t need to drink to have fun. Let’s go and do something else. Leave her alone. She said she didn’t want any.
6. What evidence of peer pressure can you list that friends should get one another to do?	Be nice Respect others Work hard Exercise (together!)
7. How can you avoid negative peer pressure?	Make friends with those who share the same values as you, and who don’t do things that you might question. · Avoid uncertain places or situations. · Make sure events are chaperoned and go with a friend or group.
8. Why is keeping negative peer pressure out of the classroom significant?	It is significant because it can help create a stress free environment, and allow for positive peer pressure to occur!
9. What are some common activities associated with peer pressure?	· Drinking · Smoking · Exploring drugs · Shoplifting
10. What are the parts or features of peer pressure that create it to be positive or negative?	· Loneliness · Depression · Discuss your opinions and future plans with your parents, so you can make sure that you have their support. · Have a few excuses ready for why you can't participate in whatever activity you are being pressured about.

Area of Evaluation	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 points	0 points
Presentation	15 minutes	10 minutes	5 minutes	2 minutes	0 minutes
Collaboration	Works really well with all students, listen actively and get others involved	Works well with students, but talks a little too much or doesn’t quite provide enough input	Shows some attempt to collaborate with students with own ideas	Little or minimal effort to collaborate	No real effort to collaborate at all
Answers for questions	Answer all questions	Answer 7-8 questions	Answer 4-6 questions	Answer 1-3 questions	Answer 0 questions
Formulation of plan before discussing with group	Spend night after class really working on assignment to formulate with group	Spend time in class and a little bit out of class	Spend 5-10 minutes formulating in class	Spend 2-4 minutes formulating in class	Don’t bother to try to formulate plan
Go to all the websites	Goes to all the websites	3-4 websites	2 websites	1 website	0 websites