Positive Relationships Unit | Bullying | Friendship | Conflict Resolution

Help students learn about fostering positive relationships as friends and peers to help prevent bullying, respond effectively to peer pressure, and develop skills to deal with conflicts in this complete unit that takes just minutes to prepare each lesson.

This unit is part of our Year Long Bundle which includes all our health and wellness units for grades four through six at a discount.

This engaging unit includes:

• eight complete and detailed lesson plans with modifications for differentiation.
• a Google Slides version for the reading and writing activities. To access the digital version, download the PDF and click the link in the file.
• student worksheets, handouts and templates.
• answer keys and suggested answers.
• student-appropriate scenarios for role-playing and discussions.
• a variety of activities for group work, writing, colouring, and collaborating
• background information for teachers regarding bullying and prevention,
• ideas for creating a positive and supportive atmosphere in your classroom.
• a larger project to teach others about kindness and friendship that you can use as project-based learning or a final assessment project.
• Canadian/British and American spellings.
• a lesson guide for Alberta teachers.

The topics included in this resource are:

• What are Friends?
• What is Bullying?
• Types of Bullying (physical, emotional and verbal)
• Cyberbullying
• Reporting Versus Tattling
• Preventing Bullying
• Peer Pressure (types and how to resist)
• Conflict Resolution

These lessons align with:

• Alberta Physical Education and Wellness Curriculum Grades 4-6 ©2022.
• Saskatchewan Health Education Curriculum for Grades 4-6.

These lessons support:

• British Columbia Physical and Health Curricular Competencies for Grades 4-6.
• the Ontario Health Curriculum for Grades 4-6.
• lessons on friendship, bullying prevention and conflict resolution.

This unit is part of our health and wellness series. The other units are:

• Expected and Unexpected (setting classroom norms)
• Group Roles and Processes (working in a group, group norms)
• Classroom Community (teamwork, communication and collaboration)
• Safety and Responsibility (first aid, injury prevention, recreational safety, transportation safety, emergency preparedness, consent)
• Digital Citizenship and Online Safety (safety and responsibility for online interactions)
• Wellness Choices (nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress, addictions, self-esteem, hygiene, peer pressure, maturing)
• Managing Feelings and Word Wall (social emotional learning)
• Life-Long Learning (listening, time management, goals, jobs, volunteers, decision making, perseverance, perspectives)
• Emotional Regulation Bingo (a social emotional learning game)
• Financial Literacy (currency, credits cards, banking practices, needs/wants, budgeting, consumer choices, savings, loans, and investments)
• Year Long Bundle (all of the units at a discount)

Are you looking for activities for Pink Shirt Day?

• Pink Shirt Day Drama Circle: all about the origins of Pink Shirt Day in Canada.
• Pink Shirt Day Collaborative Poster: start the conversation about bullying prevention

Looking for something similar for younger students?

• Building Positive Relationships Grade 1-3

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What our ninjas have said about this resource:

***We do a positive action program and I love to supplement some of the lessons with these activities. (Thanks Kelsey S!)

***This has been a great resource to use to teach about positive relationships, in particular, about bullying. Thanks. (Thank you Rochelle D!)

Thank you for your consideration! Happy relationship building from the Brain Ninjas!