Cons People may let others make their decisions for them. People may rely on the group too much and not develop their own personalities. People in groups may not develop other relationships outside the group. Groups may exclude people who are not a part of the group. A Recipe for Friendship Divide class into small groups to complete the student page.
Groups usually contain people who are friends.
They also present an opporunity to meet people who may become friends. Friends are important, because they satisfy the need to belong. Ask one person from each group to read the group's friendship recipe to the class, while another group member lists the ingredients on the board. Ask students to identify similarities and differences in the ingredients as they are recorded. When all ingredients have been recorded, ask several volunteers to go to the board and cross out the duplications.