{"id":1703,"date":"2018-05-02T00:06:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T00:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2025-03-19T11:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T11:29:18","slug":"peer-pressure-lesson-mm-guessing-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/02\/peer-pressure-lesson-mm-guessing-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Peer Pressure Lesson: M&M Guessing Game"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Looking for an AMAZING lesson on peer pressure? This lesson works for 4th grade and up. It’s an interactive no-fail lesson and I’m planning on doing it this week with my students. There is a guessing game element, afour corner activity, and a great video that promotes refusal skills that our kids need.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Click here for the PPT and lesson plan that guides the lesson.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lesson Description:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Have students write down their guess of how many M&M’s are in a jar. (You should pre-count and know the answer).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Answer sheet is available in the above detailed lesson plan.\"\"<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Next, have students get into groups and come up with a group answer for how many M&M’s are in the jar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Finally, have students go back to individually guessing how many M&M’s they truly think are in the jar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Process how the group decision made you change your first answer. (Process how students were influenced\/peer pressured to change their 1st answer.. maybe in a good way, or in a negative way).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Hold off on telling the real # of M&M’s  till the very end of the lesson, but go around the room and see who was closest. At the end of the lesson you can give a snack pack of M&Ms to that person.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Next, play a 3-corners game with “Agree”, “Disagree”, “Unsure” signs on different areas of the room. Give different statements  (ie: 13 year old kids should be able to have cell phones in school. or I like broccoli.” Afterwards process with the students how they might have been influenced by which corner their peers went to.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Review Refusal Skills<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Reveal who won the guessing game and give out prize to that person. Review how peer pressure played a role in the M&M guessing game<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Want more high quality lesson ideas? Check out my book Mindset Matters<\/a> which has over 50 lessons on growth mindset, determination and positive thinking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Looking for an AMAZING lesson on peer pressure? This lesson works for 4th grade and up. It’s an interactive no-fail lesson and I’m planning on doing it this week with my students. There is a guessing game element, afour corner activity, and a great video that promotes refusal skills that our kids need. Click here Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t