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Healthy Relationships

Seventh graders learn what sets a healthy relationship apart from an unhealthy one, and sort real signs like trust, respect, control, and pressure into the two groups.

Grade 7CASEL: Relationship Skills40 minutes1 class periodCASELExplicit teaching4 StandardsCASEL
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Name healthy signs.
  • ✓Spot unhealthy signs.
  • ✓Value trust & respect.
  • ✓Sort relationship signs.
Essential Question

The people close to you can lift you up or wear you down. What are the signs of a healthy relationship, and what are the warning signs to watch for?

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Interactive Task
Sort It · Interactive

Sort the Signs

Project this and sort each sign into healthy or unhealthy — tap a sign, then tap where it belongs.

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Tap a sign, then tap whether it belongs in a healthy relationship.
The Lesson · SEL Flow (Check-In · Learn · Practice · Apply · Reflect)

40 minutes, five moves

Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.

1

Hook — Good for You?

5 min

How can you tell whether a friendship makes you feel better or worse about yourself?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Ask how relationships feel.
  • List signs.
  • Set the goal.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Think.
  • Share.
  • Get ready.
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Use — Sort the Signs

12 min

Students sort healthy and unhealthy signs.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to Sort the Signs.
  • Drop each sign.
  • Explain each choice.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Sort.
  • Say.
  • Explain.
3

Modify — Red Flag to Green

13 min

Students reframe unhealthy patterns.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Pick an unhealthy sign.
  • Name the healthy version.
  • Explain the difference.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Pick.
  • Name.
  • Explain.
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Create — Relationship Check

15 min

Students build a quick self-check.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • List five healthy signs.
  • Turn them into check questions.
  • Keep it private.

🎒 Student Actions

  • List.
  • Turn.
  • Keep.
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Reflect — Both People

5 min

Students reflect on mutual respect.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • What makes a relationship healthy?
  • When should you get help?
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Say it.
  • Say it.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the CASEL Framework for Social and Emotional Learning across its five core competencies.

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Relationship Skills

Develop positive, supportive relationships.

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Relationship Skills

Recognize healthy and unhealthy relationship signs.

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Social Awareness

Respect the feelings and boundaries of others.

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Responsible Decision-Making

Seek help with unsafe or harmful situations.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Sign cards with icons.
  • Sentence frame: “___ is a healthy / unhealthy sign.”
  • Sort two signs at a time.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Start with clear positive signs.
  • Discuss one example together.
  • Sort healthy fully before the rest.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Discuss gray-area situations.
  • Practice setting a boundary.
  • Role-play getting help for a friend.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Projector / board
  • 🖼️Relationship-sign cards
  • 💻Sort the Signs
  • 🎭Role-play prompts
  • ✏️Pencils
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

relationshipa connection between people, like a friendshiphealthy relationshipone built on trust, respect, and supportunhealthy relationshipone marked by control, disrespect, or pressuretrustbelieving someone is honest and reliablerespectvaluing another person and their boundariesboundarya limit you set for how others treat yousupportencouraging and helping each otherred flaga warning sign that something is unhealthy
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
Name two signs of a healthy relationship.
For example, trust and respect for each other's boundaries (also support, honesty).
QUESTION 2
What is one sign a relationship may be unhealthy?
Trying to control the other person, constant put-downs, or pressure (any one).
QUESTION 3
What should you do if a relationship feels unsafe or harmful?
Talk to a trusted adult and get help; you do not have to handle it alone.

Create: a relationship check.

Have students list five signs of a healthy relationship and turn them into private check-in questions they can use for their own friendships. A printable healthy-relationships worksheet is in the Social-Emotional Learning library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

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Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: boundary, healthy relationship, red flag, relationship, respect, support, trust, unhealthy relationship
  1. believing someone is honest and reliable
  2. valuing another person and their boundaries
  3. encouraging and helping each other
  4. a warning sign that something is unhealthy
  5. one marked by control, disrespect, or pressure
  6. a limit you set for how others treat you
  7. a connection between people, like a friendship
  8. one built on trust, respect, and support

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. Name two signs of a healthy relationship.
  2. What is one sign a relationship may be unhealthy?
  3. What should you do if a relationship feels unsafe or harmful?
Answer key — Part A: 1) trust · 2) respect · 3) support · 4) red flag · 5) unhealthy relationship · 6) boundary · 7) relationship · 8) healthy relationship
Part B: 1) For example, trust and respect for each other's boundaries (also support, honesty). 2) Trying to control the other person, constant put-downs, or pressure (any one). 3) Talk to a trusted adult and get help; you do not have to handle it alone.