Friends - How Many of Us Have Them?
Introductory Relationships and Friendships Inquiry Unit

Ohio FCS Standards and Academic Connections

Standard: Build Relationships

Benchmark A. Describe methods that build and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships.

Descriptors:

1. Identify qualities and skills to build and maintain friendships.
2. Identify relationship behaviors and factors that lead to long-term relationships.
3. Identify various stereotypes and understand how they affect interpersonal relationships.
4. Apply conflict resolution skills that lead to building healthy relationships, such as communication skills and problem solving skills.
5. Recognize how technological advances impact individual and group relationships through:
   a. Safe use of technology (e.g., on cell phones, e-mail, Web pages, chat rooms);
   b. Risky Internet behaviors.
6. Apply effective communication skills to build healthy relationships pertaining to:
   a. Trust and self-disclosure;
   b. Message sending and receiving skills;
   c. Verbal and non-verbal communication;
   d. Technology in relationships;
   e. Communication across cultures.

Correlated English Language Arts Academic Content Benchmarks

• Evaluate the usefulness and credibility of data and sources. (Research B, 8-10)
• Use a variety of strategies to enhance listening comprehension. (CoA, 8-10; Communication: Oral and Visual A, 11-12)
• Select and use effective speaking strategies for a variety of audiences, situations and purposes. (Communication: Oral and Visual C, 11-12)

Correlated Social Studies Academic Content Benchmarks

• Analyze examples of interactions between cultural groups and explain the factors that contribute to cooperation and conflict. (People in Societies B, 6-8)
• Evaluate the reliability and credibility of sources. (Social Studies Skills and Methods A, 9-10)

Benchmark B. Develop coping and personal resilience skills.

Descriptors:

1. Explain how positive and negative attitudes influence behavior.
2. Identify skills to resist peer influence.

Benchmark C. Recognize personal assets that demonstrate healthy, caring, and responsible citizenship.

Descriptors:

1. Identify assets that provide for growing up healthy, caring, and responsible, including:
   a. External assets (e.g., support, empowerment, boundaries and expectations, constructive use of time, service learning);
   b. Internal assets (e.g., commitment to learning, positive values, social competencies, positive identity).
2. Identify strategies to resist peer pressure.

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