Students investigate what makes relationships healthy by analyzing realistic scenarios, practicing consent and boundary-setting language, and identifying warning signs and support options with a school counselor or social worker. Across the week, they collaborate in discussions, role-play, resource mapping, peer-circle reflection, and critique to strengthen communication, critical thinking, and self-direction. The learning culminates in a Relationship Reality Lab, where teams present revised scenario performances and explain clear next steps for boundary-setting or seeking support in real-life situations.

Students will identify and analyze warning signs, boundaries, consent, and support-seeking strategies in realistic relationship situations, using evidence from discussion, role-play, and resource mapping. They will collaborate to write, revise, and perform a scenario that distinguishes healthy and unhealthy behaviors, recommends clear next steps, and uses respectful boundary-setting language. Students will strengthen discussion and argument skills by building on others’ ideas in peer circles, responding to counselor and social worker feedback, and presenting their analysis to a live audience. They will reflect on how their own thinking about relationships changes over the week and connect school and community support resources to real-life decision-making.

Students will create a relationship resource map, boundary-setting sentence stems, and annotated notes from the Red Flag or Green Flag launch to build shared understanding of consent, warning signs, and support options. In teams, they will draft and revise a realistic scenario script during a midweek peer-circle critique with the school counselor or social worker, using feedback to strengthen accuracy, empathy, and next-step recommendations. The culminating product is a revised script-and-performance package for the Relationship Reality Lab, including the acted-out scene, a brief analysis of healthy and unhealthy behaviors, and a clear boundary-setting or support-seeking plan presented to a live audience. Students will also produce a short individual reflection on how their thinking about healthy relationships changed over the week.

Open with a fast-paced Red Flag or Green Flag boundary line challenge: students watch or read short teen relationship scenario cards, move to a side of the room, and defend their thinking using evidence about boundaries, consent, respect, and communication. A school counselor or social worker co-facilitates, pressing students to notice warning signs, healthy choices, and where someone could seek support. End with a brief reveal of the week’s challenge: in teams, students will create a realistic scenario performance and support plan for the Relationship Reality Lab.

Host a Relationship Reality Lab where student teams perform their revised scenarios for classmates, families, and invited school support staff. After each short performance, students name the healthy behaviors, red flags, boundary-setting language, and support options in the scene, then receive live feedback from the school counselor and social worker. Include a peer-led resource walk around the room with maps of school and community supports, conversation starters, and consent reminders so the audience can engage with the learning. End with a brief audience response protocol in which peers and adults share one effective choice they noticed and one helpful next step for the scenario.