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Life Skills

Making Good Decisions

Overview

Students explore simple situations and decide what they would do and why.

Learning Objective
Students discuss choices and explain reasons for their decisions.

Resources needed

  • None

Lesson stages

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  1. 1 Explain that students will think about real-life situations and make decisions.
  2. 2 Give a simple example situation and model how to choose and explain a decision.
  3. 3 Put students into small groups and give them a new situation.
  4. 4 Ask students to discuss what they would do.
  5. 5 Encourage them to give reasons for their choices.
  6. 6 Walk around and support discussion.
  7. 7 Invite groups to share their decisions.
  8. 8 Finish by discussing how different people can make different choices.

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Variations

  • Students create situations.
  • Role play decisions.
  • Whole-class discussion.
More information

Teach: choose, decide, because, I think.

Allow simple answers.

Can students explain their decisions clearly?

No materials needed.

Students think there is only one correct answer.

Decision-making is a key life skill.