Understanding Peer Pressure
This worksheet helps 6th-grade students understand what peer pressure is, how to identify it, and strategies to respond to it effectively.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will help you understand peer pressure and how to deal with it.
1. Peer pressure is when you feel to do something because your friends or other people your age are doing it, or want you to do it.
2. Peer pressure can be both and .
3. Which of the following is an example of positive peer pressure?
Your friends convince you to skip class.
Your friends encourage you to study for a test.
Your friends dare you to try something dangerous.
Your friends tell you to be mean to a new student.
4. It's always easy to say 'no' to peer pressure.
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False
5. Name two strategies you can use to resist negative peer pressure.
Use the words below to complete the sentences.
6. Having strong personal can help you make good decisions.
7. When faced with peer pressure, remember you always have the power to make your own .
8. Building your can make it easier to stand up to negative influences.
9. Your friends want you to copy answers from another student during a test, but you know it's wrong. What would you do and why?