Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan Girls Group Healthy vs.

for Unhealthy
Relationships

School Counselor: Hannah Held

Target Audience: 7th & 8th grade
Mindsets & M 1. Belief in development of whole self, including a healthy
Behaviors: 
 balance of mental, social/emotional and physical well-being
(limit of three) B-SS 2. Create positive and supportive relationships with other
students
B-SMS 7. Demonstrate effective coping skills when faced with a
problem

Lesson 4 Of 9

Learning Objective(s)/Competency
Students will: Identify healthy and unhealthy friendhsips/relationships

Students will: Process a current friendship and problem solve ways to foster
healthy friendships

Materials:
White board
paper
dry erase markers/ writing utensils
Evidence Base:

⬜ Best Practice
⬜ Action Research
⬜ Research-Informed
⬜ Evidence-Based
Procedure: Describe how you will:
Introduce: Welcome girls back & go in a round discussing one thing that
happened last week.
Review group rules & confidentiality
Group discussion question: what does it mean to be a “good
friend”?
Communicate Learning types of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
Lesson Objective: Learning about boundaries and how to set boundaries in
healthy ways.
Teach Content: What do healthy & unhealthy friendships look like?
What are boundaries? How do we create boundaries to protect
ourselves?
Split in pairs: pairs will brainstorm characteristics of healthy &
unhealthy relationships and write answers on board & present.
Group discussion: what differences do you notice? What are
ways we can protect ourselves from being hurt in unhealthy
friendships?
Practice Content: Once board activity is finished, students will write a letter to
someone who they have a healthy relationship with. Students
will express what makes the relationship healthy and use ways
to set boundaries in the letter. Can be given to the person or
kept for their own keeping.
Summarize: What are ways you notice the people in your life being a
healthy friend? What are ways you can be a healthy friend for
someone.
Close: Introduce topic of self concept and self respect form next week
by tying it in with boundary setting.
Data Collection Plan – For multiple lessons in a unit, this section only need be
completed once
Participation Data: 
Anticipated 14
number of
students:
Planned length of 50 minutes
lesson(s):
Mindsets & Behaviors Data:

▪ Pre-test administered before first lesson