Goals for Family - Planning Ahead for Family Life - HS Health & FACS Lesson3
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Guide students to envision their brightest possible future as a foundation for learning about healthy families. Your students will define personalized goals which they find enticing and compelling, which in turn helps them understand their lives in a broader context. A future-oriented perspectivePrice $14.20Original Price $16.00Save $1.80
Description
Highly interactive, this lesson builds students' skills in goal-setting, strategy, step-by-step planning, and problem-solving. Students' detailed dreams will inspire additional learning. The life-skills learned in this lesson will be applicable for all other endeavors. 42 slides, 6-page workbook, standards-based.
Lesson Content
This thought-provoking lesson helps teens analyze where they are in the process of developing qualities to be a “great parent.” Students will also identify and prioritize the values they would like to instill in children. Students are also given space to craft their personal vision of their dream home and family. The lesson concludes with a skill-building life skills exercise to help students understand the dynamics of daily decisions, and positive and negative influences, in relationship to their family goals.
Here’s why you’ll LOVE this Lesson!
✅ No Prep!
✅ Fully engaging & inclusive across genders, cultures, faiths, family structures
✅ Great discussion-starter questions
✅ Supports social-emotional learning (SEL)
✅ Utilizes Motivational Interviewing techniques
Aligns perfectly with National Standards
✅ Common Core ELA*
✅ Health Education / Healthful Living*
✅ FACS
- Area of Study 1.0 – Career, Community and Family Connections
- Area of Study 6.0 – Human Development
- Area of Study 15.0 – Parenting
*Lesson meets all or a subset of the standards.
What students and teachers are saying
⭐️ “I liked planning for my future family.” Male student (16)
⭐️ “It helps you set goals in your future so you can be more motivated.” Female student (14)
⭐️ “The slides, lesson plan, and worksheet are all great and are very polished.” Teacher/TpT client
Lesson components
- Instructor's Guide - Includes supplemental lesson activities, and tips for differentiated learning & inclusion
- “Goals for Family” Workbook (6 pages) – PDF file with fillable fields, also printable. Includes brief overview of Maslow’s Hierarchy.
- PowerPoint slides (42 PPT slides) – Suitable for teacher-led or independent student learning. Compatible with Google Classrooms.
- Lesson Plan (1 page, editable PPT) - Overview of the lesson, editable for student instructions, due dates, links to slides and workbook files, etc.
- Curriculum Standards PDF
- Google Apps™ digital version links in Instructor's Guide and PPT Slides
✏️ Students will do these activities
- Analyze expectations and responsibilities of parenting
- Envision goals for their future home and family life
- Create a personal plan to achieve their goals
- Identify positive and negative influences
Students will learn
- A definition of "family" from U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration
- How to transform hopes into goals by creating a plan with stepping stones
- Ways in which behaviors, people and past experiences can bring them closer or pull them away from their goals
- For change to happen, it takes effort and courage to develop new ways of thinking and behaving
This is the centerpiece of the Healthy Foundations series of lessons!
The dreams that students envision become their emotional motivation for learning and skill-building.
The goals they set will serve as a context for future decision-making.
Pairs well with other ETP lessons
- Purpose of Parenting – Lesson 2 - Students explore reasons why people become parents, the impact of unintended pregnancy, and how parenting might (or might not) fit in with their plans.
- Relationships for Family – Lesson 4 - Students identify qualities they seek in relationships, examine how these choices can affect a future family, and consider ways to handle parenting challenges when relationships don’t go according to plan.
HAVE QUESTIONS OR NEED ADVICE? Feel free to email me at rrubenstein@eduparents.org . I’m happy to assist you.
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More About This Resource
This lesson is part of the Healthy Foundations for Future Families program. I created the Healthy Foundations program to empower teens to make healthy choices before they form families. The ultimate goals are to help provide teens with the information and life skills to form strong families and prevent adverse childhood experiences for our next generation of children.
I have taught this program in a variety of high schools since 2005 and instructed over 9,000 students. After participating in this program, over 95% of students have said they will be better prepared to care a family!
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