About This Lesson
1ST GRADE LESSON PLANS
Lesson 1: Friendships
This lesson teaches students about the importance of friendships and what it takes to be a good friend, as well as why friends count on us and how we can show our friends that we care about them.
Lesson 2: Gender Roles
The purpose of this lesson is to show students that they are not limited to what they can and cannot do based on their gender.
Lesson 3: The Circle of Life (with PPT)
This lesson introduces the topic of reproduction to students. By the end of this lesson, students should be able to correctly define the term “reproduction,” as well as correctly differentiate between things in the world that do and do not reproduce.
Supplemental Lesson: My Body is My Body
This lesson for lower elementary students defines what sexual abuse is and identifies behaviors that a child would want to bring to the attention of a trusted adult in order to get help.
Supplemental Lesson: Pink, Blue & Purple
This lesson for lower elementary students provides the foundational concept ofgender so that students can then understand gender identity and gender role stereotypes
