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Healthy Versus Unhealthy Pattern Sorter

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About this MicroSim

Healthy Versus Unhealthy Pattern Sorter is an interactive MicroSim for this health-education textbook.

Students evaluate short relationship scenarios (family, friend, or romantic) to judge whether each reflects a healthy characteristic, an unhealthy pattern, or a single non-pattern moment.

Use the controls in the panel below the drawing to interact with the model, then talk through what changed and why. The MicroSim is width-responsive and can be embedded in any course page with the iframe shown above.

Bloom's Taxonomy level: Evaluate (L5) — judge, assess, differentiate, justify

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 evaluate short relationship scenarios (family, friend, or romantic) to judge whether each reflects a healthy characteristic, an unhealthy pattern, or a single non-pattern moment.

This activity targets Bloom's Evaluate (L5) (judge, assess, differentiate, justify).

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 Evaluate-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:** healthy-unhealthy-pattern-sorter<br/>
**Library:** p5.js<br/>
**Status:** Specified

Bloom Taxonomy: Evaluate (L5)
Bloom Taxonomy Verb: judge, assess, differentiate, justify

Learning objective: Students evaluate short relationship scenarios (family, friend, or romantic) to judge whether each reflects a healthy characteristic, an unhealthy pattern, or a single non-pattern moment.

Layout: One scenario at a time, with three response buttons ("Healthy Pattern," "Unhealthy Pattern," "One-Time Moment, Not a Pattern"), a feedback panel, and a "Next Scenario" button.

Visual elements: 10 short scenarios spanning family, friend, and romantic contexts (e.g., a friend who checks a classmate's phone daily without asking; a sibling who snapped once then apologized).

Behavior: Feedback explains which characteristic or pattern is present and why, using this chapter's healthy/unhealthy language.

Instructional Rationale: Judging scenarios against defined criteria is Evaluate-level, so classification-with-justification is used rather than animation, requiring application of the framework rather than recall.

Implementation notes: p5.js. Scenarios stored as objects with text, correct category, and explanation string.

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