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Peer Pressure and Resisting It

CONCEPTUAL
Personal & Social DevelopmentResponsible Decision-Making|Ages 9—11|ID: mt_JivEBTD_KV

Understand peer pressure — the influence friends and peers can have on your choices and behaviour — and develop strategies for resisting pressure to do something they know is wrong or that makes them uncomfortable

Mastery Evidence

  • Define peer pressure in their own words and give a real-world example
  • Describe at least two strategies for resisting peer pressure, such as walking away or using humour
  • Explain why going along with something wrong to fit in usually makes things worse

Assessment Prompt

“If [child]'s friends dare them to do something risky or unkind — like shoplifting a sweet or posting an embarrassing photo of someone — can they resist the pressure and explain why they won't do it?”

Curriculum Standards1 alignment

PSPE-ID-CU-P4-4IB PYP Personal, Social and Physical Education (PSPE) Scope and Sequencecodes only
Standard code — full text not included in this dataset.

Prerequisites4

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