Students identify influences on their decisions. Ask students to look at the decisions they listed and identify and write down at least two things that influenced these decisions. Ask for volunteers to read their lists to the class. Write the influences they identify on the board. Ask students if they notice any similarities between the things students identified as being influential on minor and major decisions.
Students review examples of internal and external influences.
Influences Review each influence on the transparency, asking students for examples from the influences they identified. Students identify external influences. Give each student a sheet of posterboard and a marker. Ask students to sketch an outline of themselves in the center of the posterboard and to draw three concentric circles around the outline. In the space between the first and second circle, students are to write the names of the individuals or groups with whom they spend the most time.