Health Education I Seventh and Eighth Grade
Ethical Decision Making
Description
Students use decision-making skills to resolve "Olympic" conflicts.
Themes
Sportsmanship, Respect and Fairness
Core Curriculum
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7100-01
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Students develop skills and processes that contribute to the development of a healthy self. Apply
decision-making skills to address an issue. Analyze the correlation between acceptance of responsibility
and personal growth and maturity.
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7100-02
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The students will adopt health-promoting and risk-reducing behaviors to prevent substance abuse.
Analyze the results of individual choice and consequences related to drug use and/or non-use.
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7100-05
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Students assess how individual behavior affects personal and community health and safety. Determine an
individual's role and responsibilities in creating a safe and caring community.
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Learning Outcomes
Students Will:
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Identify and apply factors that influence decisions to a specific issue
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Analyze a decision-making process
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Apply "forgotten aspects of decision making" to Olympic issues
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Establish a decision-making mode to Olympic issues
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Tools and Resources
None
Preparation
The class will need to know decision-making steps and forgotten aspects of
decision-making. Forgotten aspects include: moral values/ethics, feelings,
others' feelings, self-concept, risks, and pressures.
Activity 1: Decisions and Olympic Dilemma
Instruction
Divide the class into 5-10 groups Have each group resolve an dilemma related to the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. As the
dilemma is addressed, list the impact that values, emotions, other people's feelings, self-concept, risks, and pressures
often have on the decision.
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You are on the rules committee for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. You know an athlete has taken a drug
that does not affect performance, but is illegal. For example, a cold medication. What are your options,
and what do you recommend should be done to or with the athlete?
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You are on a bobsled team for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. You have found a way to adjust the weight
on the sled in a manner that will make it faster, but cannot be detected. What will you do? Do you alter
your sled to win?
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You are an athlete favored to win the gold medal. You receive a message that you have a family crisis
(death, serious injury, final request). Do you return to your family, or stay and compete? Explain your
feelings and the reasoning behind your decision.
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You are an official for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. You make a decision that gives one athlete a gold medal
over the other. Later, but before the awards ceremony, you realize you made a bad call. What are the options?
What do you do?
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You are a speed skater. You not only win the gold medal, but shatter the world record. On the final turn, you
crossed the lane line gaining a slight advantage. The judge does not call the violation and you would have won anyway.
Do you report your own violation? Why or why not?
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You are a figure skater. You know there is a bad spot on the ice. The spot does not affect your routine, but may
affect others. Do you report the problem?
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You are a freestyle skier. This is your only chance for a place on an Olympic team. In your last practice run,
you injure your knee. The team doctor tells you that competing will permanently damage the knee. What are your options.
List the pros and cons of your decision. Do you compete?
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You are on the hockey team for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. The best player on the team is taking an illegal
performance-enhancing drug. Even without the drug, he/she was the best hockey player in the world. What are your options?
What do you do? Do you turn him/her in?
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Assessment
Students will:
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Show evidence of thoughtful decision making
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Express rationale for the final decisions
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Activity 2: Rewriting Fairy Tales
Learning Outcomes
Students will relate the Olympic values to those found in "The Little Red Hen."
Tools and Resources
Obtain a book containing the story of "The Little Red Hen"
Instruction
Read the story "The Little Red Hen." This book teaches positive values by describing the opposite
values found in the friends of the "Little Red Hen." Students will rewrite the story of the "Little
Red Hen" demonstrating positive Olympic values.
Students will organize a skit showing how Olympic values might be promoted during the Games.
Assessment
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List at least six values the Modern Olympic Games embrace
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Describe ways these values might be promoted during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games
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