Read the following scenario to students and guide them through the decision-making steps. Ask students for suggestions for each step and record student responses on the transparency. Twelve year old Dinorah rides with her older sister, Stephanie, to church every Sunday. After church, Dinorah usually talks with her friends and winds up walking home, because Stephanie has already left in the car. Dinorah always asks Stephanie to wait for her after church because the walk home is long, and it is often cold and rainy.
Groups practice decision-making.
Ask groups to fill in the decision-making steps for the situations. Reflect, summarize and discuss. Ask groups to report how they applied the model to solve the scenarios. The decision-making steps can help people make important decisions. The best decisions help improve health for ourselves and others.