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Grade 7

LEADING OTHERS

Objective: Session 1

. Investigate ways in which peers can influence self-image, such as through fashion and social activities.
. Explore personal interests, values, and skills.
. Examine effects of positive or negative self-image on relationships with others.



Objective: Session 2

. Identify influences on one’s own ideas and behaviors, such as family, friends, and media.
. Identify one’s own attitudes and biases toward others, such as admiration or jealousy.

Objective: Session 3

. Consider the effects of gender, ethnicity, customs, and traditions on the interests, values, styles, and behaviors of others.
. Recognize contributions of people from different backgrounds and experiences.
. Create strategies to integrate new members into a group.



Objective: Session 4

. Identify and discuss effective leadership qualities, such as setting of limits, tolerance, self-reliance, initiative, charisma, and competence (in addition to honesty, care for others, civility,  fairness, responsibility, courage, and reliability).
. Analyze the effectiveness of leaders according to the traits they demonstrate.



ECONOMIC COMMON SENSE

Objective: Session 1

Country’s Need and Want

. Identify country’s need and want.



Objective: Session 2

How does a country fulfill its need and want?

. Demonstrate how countries depend on each other for its need and want.

Objective: Session 3

International Trade

. Demonstrate barter and direct trade at country level.



Objective: Session 4

Currency Check

. Recall currency.
. Demonstrate how to change currency before travelling to another country.

TEAMWORK

Objective: Session 1

. To acknowledge gestures of caring
. To identify and acknowledge the people whom one care for and who care for you
. To examine the attributes of caring individual
. To evaluate oneself asa caring individual
. To appraise the caring individual around



Objective: Session 2

. To understand the importance of individuality and accepting others for who they are
. To enable the child to understand empathy

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

Objective: Session 1

Global Climate change and life cycle analysis

. Explore and learn about the hazards of global climate change
. Analyze the life cycle of a product from its manufacture to its disposal



Objective: Session 2

Eco friendly Sustainable living

. Define carrying capacity of earth
. Identify the need to control human population growth
. Implementing new techniques of eco-friendly agriculture like
. Vegetable seed preservation
. Implementing genetic engineering

SMART CONSUMER LITERACY

Objective: Session 1

. Knowing whereto seek help, information, and advice
. Understanding how most companies market and sell their products and services



Objective: Session 2

. Being aware of consumer rights
. Making responsible and informed choices and purchase decisions

ETHICS& VALUES

Objective: Session 1

. Revisiting Ethics
. Understanding ethics and their impact on our lives
. Identifying how our attitudes towards others can create or destroy our image



Objective: Session 2

. To develop key decision making skills
. To identify the difference betweenwhat seems right and what is ethically justified.
. To discuss and share personal experiences and feelings

Objective: Session 3

. To understand that our actions affect people around us
. To help device measures to take ethical decisions
. To discuss and share personal experiences and feelings
. How to deal with the pressure of decision making times
. Introduction to professional ethics

Objective: Session 4

. To understand how to use ethics in day to day life
. To identify good and bad actions in society
. To discuss and share experience of application of ethics

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

Objective: Session 1

. Introduction to Communication Skills
. It is Transactional
. It is a Process
. It is sharing MEANING with others
. Why Communication Skills is important
. Knowing different channels of communication



Objective: Session 2


. Knowing the characteristics of Good Communication Skills
. Knowing the characteristics of Bad Communication
. Understanding the barriers of Effective Communication

Objective: Session 3

. Benefits of Good Communication
. Improved Confidence
. Improved relationships
. Less stress
. Greater acceptance by other
. Disadvantages of Bad Communication

Objective: Session 4

. To help them identify their own communication pattern and assess how it adds or obstructs their communication
. To help students understand the importance of non-verbal communication and how misunderstanding develops if the communication is not proper
. Responding promptly or expressing feeling verbally or non-verbally to parents in positive and assertive way.
. To create awareness regarding various forms of communication

Empathy & Compassion

Objective: Session 1

. Understanding the qualities of empathic listening.
. Demonstrating empathic listening.
. Linking empathy with compassion.



Objective: Session 2

. Introspect and understand what they already know about dealing with incidents of name-calling in school.(teasing peers)
. To find out what students still want to know about how to deal with name-calling in school.

DECISION MAKING

Objective: Session 1

. Use process of decision making with sequential steps to arrive at a decision.
. Analyze the situation: Stop, Think and Act
. Look for the choice
. Decide
. Evaluate your decision
. Identify the positive or negative consequences of each decision taken.



Objective: Session 2

. Identifying three types of decision making.
. No decision
. Quick Decision without any consideration of result
.Responsible Decision
. Relating responsible decision making with effective career and life planning.
. Outlining the Decision Making process.(what points need to be considered while making any decision)

Objective: Session 3

. Defining advantages and disadvantages with snap decisions.
. Understanding why snap decisions are more common than responsible decisions.
. Relating personal needs, interests, and skills to the process of making decisions.