Strand # 4: Social and Emotional Health

Lesson Name: Decision Making

Summary/Overview of Lesson:
Students will learn the steps to decision making using the decision
making image to individually explain each step. To get a better
understanding of the steps, students will identify 50 decisions that can
be made on a daily basis by sorting them into categories of
consideration. They will also identify characteristic traits that could
help or hinder the process of making a decision by choosing three
traits they see in themselves and determine whether it is beneficial to
the decision making process.
Michigan Benchmark(s):
Grade 6:
4.6. Describe the decision
making and problem solving
steps.
Grade 7-8:
4.15. Apply character traits
during the process of making a
decision.

National Benchmark(s):
5.8.3. Distinguish when individual
or collaborative decision making
is appropriate.
5.8.1. Identify circumstances that
can help or hinder healthy
decision making.

Student Friendly Benchmark(s):

I can explain the decision making steps.
I can infer character traits during the process of making a decision.

Content:
1.
Decision making steps.
2.
Character traits during
the process of making a
decision.

Skills:
1.
Explain the decision making
steps.
2.
Apply character traits
during the process of making a
decision.

Differentiated Objective(s):
Students will describe the decision making steps using a handout and
create a written review in groups of one.

Grade Level: Middle School

Duration: 55 minutes
Analysis/Analyzing (4)

Bloom Level:

Materials/Technology
1.
Decision Making Steps
Image
2.
White board
markers/chalk
3.
Loose leaf paper
4.
Projector

Preparation
1.
Print Decision Making Step
Image.
2.
Enough white board
markers/chalk for the class.
3.
Enough loose leaf paper for
entire class.

Warm-Up/Anticipatory Set
Have students think about ad write down the last decision they
made.

Strand # 4: Social and Emotional Health

Lesson Name: Decision Making
Procedure
Step # 1: Have students think about and write down the last decision
they made.
Step # 2: As a class, have students write on the board 50 decisions a
person can make in their life, example: what cereal to eat for
breakfast, or what will you do this weekend?
Introduce the categories of decision making: no decision- letting other
decide what you will do, snap decision- a quick choice you will make
with no consideration of the result, and responsible decisionconsidering others and your future when you are making a decision.
Students will individually place the 50 decisions on the board, into one
of those three categories on a piece of paper. Have students share and
compare their lists.
Step # 3: Present Decision Making image on projector.
As a class students will discuss characteristic traits that would make
decision making easier and characteristics that might make decision
making harder. All traits will be written on the board. Students will then
identify 3 character traits of their own. They will then write if the trait
makes decision making easier or harder and why.

Teaching Tips:
-Allow enough time for students to finish categorizing all 50 decisions.

Questions at Blooms Level of Learning: (6) Evaluation/Creating

Do you think there are certain character traits that are good or bad in
relation to making a decision?
Assessment:
Students will describe the steps
for decision making in their own
words.

Homework:
N/A

Grade Level: Middle School

Duration: 55 minutes
Analysis/Analyzing (4)

Bloom Level:

Differentiation/Modification(s):
Students with Dysgraphia only sort 25 of the 50 decisions in the
categories of consideration.

Source:
https://www.umassd.edu/fycm/decisionmaking/process/
https://access.bridges.com/usa/en_US/choices/pro/content/lessons/deci
sionmakingguide/dmg_usa_teachers.pdf