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Peer Relationships Positive and Negative Peer Influences. 8 th Grade Advisory Activity . Video: Bad Friendships. Listen for W hy do students sometimes experience negative peer influence? Why do you think Peter and Gavin are friends?
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Peer RelationshipsPositive and Negative Peer Influences 8th Grade Advisory Activity
Video: Bad Friendships Listen for • Why do students sometimes experience negative peer influence? • Why do you think Peter and Gavin are friends? (Click on picture to play video and stop video at 3:20)
Reasons for Negative Peer Influences • Misguided Loyalty: Students stay friends with peers that are making troublesome decisions even though they know it is probably a bad choice • Popular friends: Students want to be popular • Danger: It seems exciting but students do not think through the likely or possible bad consequences • Insecure: Students feel they do not have many friend options and go along with whatever their friends want • Followers: Students let peer leaders take them down the wrong path
Negative Peer InfluencesGet in Groups of 5 • What does your group think are the most common reasons students at our school are influenced negatively by peers? • Rate the most common to the 5th most common • Be prepared to share your group’s reasoning • Misguided Loyalty • Popular friends • Danger • Insecure • Followers
Groups Share Their RatingsReasons for Negative Peer Influences • What are the most common reasons students at our school are influenced negatively by peers? • Give your ratings 1-5 and explain your choices • Misguided Loyalty • Popular friends • Danger • Insecure • Followers
Video: Positive Peer Influence Listen for: • Teenagers should hang around people with the same _______________. • What is a benefit of having a positive peer group? (Click on picture to play video)
Peer Group InfluencePositive Peer Pressure Hang around people with the same values • This will help you not get pressured into something that you really do not believe in • Positive peer groups can fight off temptation together Students often make the same decisions as their friends • If your peers smoke, drink, bully others, and do not study, then you are much more likely to do the same thing • If your peers stay away from drugs, are kind to others, and do their best in school, then you are much more likely to do the same thing
Positive Peer InfluencesStay in Your Groups of 5 Do you believe in this statement? Why or why not? • If your peers stay away from drugs, are kind to others, and do their best in school, then you are much more likely to do the same thing Name 5 of the following personality traits that can be most influenced by positive peer pressure • Helpful, loyal, optimistic, ambitious, considerate, fun • Trustworthy, honest, sincere, stable, ethical, funny, kind
Groups Share Their AnswersPositive Peer Influences Do you believe in this statement? Why or why not? • If your peers stay away from drugs, are kind to others, and do their best in school, then you are much more likely to do the same thing 5 personality traits: positive peer pressure influence • Helpful, loyal, optimistic, ambitious, considerate, fun • Trustworthy, honest, sincere, stable, ethical, funny, kind