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How To Be a Friend
Students will demonstrate skills for relating to others.



Primary Learning Outcomes
How would you go about making a new friend? What would you do if someone you don’t like wants to be your friend? How would you feel if your best friend was moving away?

Additional Learning Outcomes


Assessed QCC Standards:

Grade: 3
Guidance
A. Self Knowledge
2
Topic: Skills to interact with others.
Standard: Identify how people are unique. Demonstrate effective skills for interacting with others. Demonstrate skills in managing conflicts with peers and adults. Demonstrate group membership skills. Identify sources and effect of peer pressure. Demonstrate appropriate behavior when peer pressures are contrary to one’s belief. Demonstrate awareness of different cultures, lifestyles, attitudes, and abilities.


Procedures/Activities


Step:  1 Duration: 10 min.
Discuss making and being a friend: Is a friend important? When do you make a new friend? How would you go about making a new friend? What would you do if someone you don’t like wants to be your friend? How would you feel if your best friend was moving away? If you thought your friend was doing something wrong, what would you do?

Step:  2 Duration: 5 min.
Write “FRIEND” on the board. Use each letter to describe traits of a friend. Brainstorm and list these words on the board.

Step:  3 Duration: 15 min.
Play the Good Squirms/Bad Squirms game (see directions on the following page).

Attachments for Step 3
Title: FileName: Good and Bad Squirms.doc
Description: Directions to play the game.




Materials and Equipment
Chalk/chalkboard, Worms cut out of construction paper, large envelope, Two cans with no rough edges, labeled “Good Squirms” and “Bad Squirms," “Good Squirms/Bad Squirms” sheet


Standards (Local and/or National)

Total Duration
30 min.

Technology Connection



Assessment
Students' participation will be evaluated.
Extension
Have students make an acrostic poem from the word "friend." The poem should contain words that describe a good friend. Ask students to illustrate their poems and display them in the hall.
Remediation
Have students role-play different situations involving friends and allow students to choose appropriate actions to the situations.
Accommodation
For students with exceptional needs, what changes can be made in instruction and teaching delivery to enhance student participation and learning? Each area below is a direct link to general classroom accommodations.

Non-readers     Physical Impairments     Sensory Impairments     Attention/Behavior

Each disability below is a direct link to general classroom accommodations specific for that disability.

    Autism
    Deaf - Blind
    Deaf/Hard of Hearing
    Emotional and Behavioral Disorder
    Mild Intellectual Disability
    Orthopedic Impairment
    Other Health Impairment
        Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
        Tourette Syndrome
    Significant Development Delay
    Specific Learning Disability
    Speech - Language Impairment
    Traumatic Brain Injury
    Visual Impairment

Modification
For students with significant disabilities, what changes can be made in instruction and teaching delivery to allow students to participate in classroom instruction while working on IEP objectives and off grade level QCC standards. Below are suggested modifications correlated to the procedures of this lesson plan.