Xtranormal+Peer+Pressure

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 * Xtranormal Peer Pressure - Situational Movies**
 * By: Nancy Walker and Donna Baker** (Family and Consumer Science, High School)

**Standards:**
2.0 Students will evaluate factors that impact individual growth and development areas related to self-understanding, personal decision making, communication and interpersonal //**Learning Expectations:**// The student will: 2.1 Relate how personal values, goals, needs and wants influence an individual’s attitudes, beliefs, and behavior. 2.2 Demonstrate personal behavior reflecting sound decision making and responsibility. 2.3 Apply principles of effective communication. 2.4 Practice behaviors that contribute to satisfying interpersonal relationships.relationships. //**Performance Standards:**// The student: 2.1A Analyzes individual attitudes, beliefs, and behavior. 2.2A Describes the role of accepting responsibility in decision making. 2.2B Summarizes the effects of personal priorities and other influences on decisions. 2.2C Predicts the implications of personal behavior and decisions on peers, families, society, and future generations. 2.4B Demonstrates positive techniques for conflict resolution, including assertiveness techniques and refusal skills.

**Technology Standards:**
1. Creativity and Innovation Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students: a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes. b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression. 2. Communication and Collaboration Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students: a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media. b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.

**Procedures:**
1. Discuss peer pressure and appropriate responses to it. Lead class discussion exploring the kinds of peer pressure faced by high school students (positive and negative) and possible outcomes of giving into peer pressure or not. 2. Assign groups and topics/scenarios. 3. Give students a copy of the grading rubric for the project and discuss. 4. Have students, working in pairs, go to xtranormal.com to create an account. (Use school email accounts.) 5. Write script and follow simple instructions on website to create movie for assigned scenarios involving peer pressure faced by high school students. 6. Email link to published movie to teacher.

Rubric:
Rubric for evaluation projects.

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