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Coercion Tactics Identifier

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About this MicroSim

Coercion Tactics Identifier is an interactive MicroSim for this health-education textbook.

Students analyze short dialogue examples to identify which of five coercion tactics (guilt-tripping, repeated pressure, threats, exploiting power differences, wearing someone down) is present.

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Bloom's Taxonomy level: Analyze (L4) — identify, differentiate, examine

Lesson Plan

Audience

This MicroSim is designed for Grades 6-8. For the K-3 bands the teacher typically drives the activity on a shared screen; older students can explore the MicroSim independently.

Learning Objective

Students analyze short dialogue examples to identify which of five coercion tactics (guilt-tripping, repeated pressure, threats, exploiting power differences, wearing someone down) is present.

This activity targets Bloom's Analyze (L4) (identify, differentiate, examine).

Suggested Use (about 10 minutes)

  1. Warm up (2 min). Ask students what they already know about the topic and let one volunteer describe what they see on the screen.
  2. Model it (3 min). Demonstrate the interaction once, thinking aloud so students hear the reasoning behind each choice.
  3. Guided practice (3 min). Invite students to try the interaction and to predict what will happen before they act.
  4. Discuss (2 min). Ask why the result came out the way it did, connecting the on-screen result back to the learning objective above.

Check for Understanding

Have each student (or pair) explain their result in one sentence, using the vocabulary from this chapter. Look for reasoning that matches the Analyze-level objective rather than a lucky guess.

Specification

The full specification below was extracted from Chapter 2: Relationships, Boundaries, and Consent.

Type: microsim
**sim-id:** coercion-tactics-identifier<br/>
**Library:** p5.js<br/>
**Status:** Specified

Bloom Taxonomy: Analyze (L4)
Bloom Taxonomy Verb: identify, differentiate, examine

Learning objective: Students analyze short dialogue examples to identify which of five coercion tactics (guilt-tripping, repeated pressure, threats, exploiting power differences, wearing someone down) is present.

Layout: One short two-line dialogue exchange at a time, with five tactic buttons beneath it and a feedback panel.

Visual elements: 10 short dialogue scenarios spanning friend, family, and romantic contexts, each reflecting exactly one primary tactic, plain text only (no depicted violence or explicit content).

Behavior: Feedback names the specific phrase signaling the tactic and briefly explains why it counts as pressure rather than a fair request.

Instructional Rationale: Identifying tactics embedded in realistic dialogue is Analyze-level, so a classification interface with real phrasing is used, training pattern recognition transferable to real conversations.

Implementation notes: p5.js. Dialogue/tactic-answer pairs stored as objects; feedback references the exact quoted phrase.

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