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25Activity: Forced Choice
This activity will have students recognize the effects of personal values and peer pressure when
making a decision.
1. Place signs in each corner of the room to designate four different choices: Strongly Agree,
Agree, Disagree, and Strongly Disagree.
2. Have the students stand in the middle of the room.
3. Read the first statement: “Women are generally more sensitive than men.”
4. The students are then to choose a corner of the room that represents their choice.
NOTE: It is important that they make their choices with NO talking.
5. Repeat, using the following statements, each time having the students choose the corner of the
room that best fits their choice of each statement.
Statements:
• Women are generally more sensitive than men.
• I would ditch school and go with my friends.
• If the principal announces that a window is broken and asks for information about the perpetrator,
and I knew who did it, I would tell.
• I think it is OK to push and shove people I don’t like.
• School is more work than fun.
• Students don’t give each other enough respect.
• Boys are better at sports than girls.
• Adults don’t give kids enough respect.
• Scientists should not be allowed to carry out experiments on animals.
• People can be judged by the clothes that they wear.
• It is better to give than to receive.
• It is necessary to have a college education to make it in life.
• Teachers are usually right.
Ask the following questions:
1. Notice the four signs. Which choice is not represented here? (Answer: “I don’t know or care.”)
2. How did it feel when you were forced to make a decision?
3. Did you always go with your friends to the same corner or was the choice your own?
4. Did you feel any pressure from your friends to select a particular corner?
5. What kinds of pressure did you feel?
6. Did anyone make a decision that was different from everyone in the class? How did that feel for
the student and the rest of the class?
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