Know your Risk

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Know your Risk

Through 9 concurrent lessons, Know Your Risk develops core transferable risk management skills and offers opportunities for students to practice vicarious risk-taking in the safety of the classroom. This resource introduces students to the concept of risk in their lives within the context of the role ethics plays in their personal decision-making. This is a great resource for educators of life skills, health and at-risk teenagers. See below for more details.

For grades 7-12.

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Major themes in Know Your Risk:

• Decision Making • Responsibility
• Understanding Risk • Societal Pressures/ Media Influences
• Managing Risk • Personal Management
• Safety

Recommended and applicable to the following Grade 7-12 subjects:

• Health Education • Life Skills • Psychology
• Physical Education • Career Studies • Cooperative Education
• Outdoor Education • Guidance Education • Media Studies
• Family Studies • Sociology

This resource was developed using provincial curriculum outcomes across Canada. Visit www.career-connections.info
and click on the teacher tab to find our curriculum matrix, which links our resources directly to the curriculum you teach.

How to Use this Resource:

Know Your Risk consists of nine lessons. Each lesson is designed for a time frame of 45-50 minutes. This should allow for
the lesson, set-up, group activity and follow-up. The lessons may be used one at a time and out of order, but the resource
can be used easily in sequence as the activities have a cumulative effect.

Lesson Format

Each lesson follows the same format:

1. Set-up – a teacher-led activity for the whole class that introduces concepts by engaging students in brainstorming or discussions

2. Group Activity – a small group activity that allows the students to explore the concepts and their applications in more
detail

3. Follow-up – an opportunity for the small groups to present their findings and for the whole class to discuss how the
activity has changed their attitudes

4. Individual Activity – a homework sheet for individual students to practise the skills developed in the lesson