Classroom Engagement with Post-Its: Daily Decisions for Teenagers (Decision Making)

Written By Janelle The

A health class instant activity for teaching decision making.

This is a super-easy instant activity to help students build self-awareness about how they make decisions (SHAPE America Standard #5). All you need are some Post-its or cut/torn-up scrap pieces of paper.

How to the Post-It Storm Instant Activity

Hand out Post-Its/scrap paper to students and ask them to write down 4-5 decisions they’ve made in the last 24 hours (one per each piece of paper). Once they’ve written their decisions, you can ask students some questions to get them thinking more critically about the skill of decision-making and what it looks like in their lives. Here are some ideas:

  • What element(s) of the BEST Model does each decision relate to?

  • Did you have to think about the decision, or were you on autopilot?

  • Who/what influenced your decisions?

After the instant activity and discussion, we dove into the WISE skill cues for decision-making!

Janelle The
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