Understanding Peer Pressure
A Grade 5 social studies worksheet to help students understand and navigate peer pressure.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will help you understand what peer pressure is and how to handle it.
1. What is peer pressure?
When friends encourage you to do good things.
When someone your age tries to convince you to do something.
When adults tell you what to do.
When you feel like eating pizza.
2. Which of these is an example of POSITIVE peer pressure?
Your friends dare you to steal candy from a store.
Your classmates convince you to study for a test together.
A friend tells you to skip your chores.
Someone makes fun of your new shoes.
3. Peer pressure is always a bad thing.
True
False
4. When you say 'no' to peer pressure, you are showing that you have .
5. It's important to choose friends who and support you.
6. Describe one strategy you can use to resist negative peer pressure.
Match the type of peer pressure with its description.
7. Positive Peer Pressure
a. Encourages you to do something harmful or wrong.
8. Negative Peer Pressure
b. Encourages you to do something good or helpful.