Lesson · Grade 6 · Physical and Health Education
What Shapes Who You Are: Family, Friends, Culture and Values
- Grade 6
- Physical and Health Education
- 1 min 7 s
- British Columbia
- BC6-PH-17
A person in the middle of the screen, marked "your identity", gains a coloured band on the ring around them as four common influences arrive one at a time: family (what you learn at home), friends (what you try and enjoy), culture (language and traditions) and values (like honesty and kindness), with school, media and hobbies named as others. The bands mix and change size to show that identity keeps changing as you grow, a compass shows that your values help you choose which influences to follow, and the video ends on the recap that family, friends, culture and values all help shape who you are.
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In one sentence
The question this lesson answers
What shapes the person you are?
Your identity is who you are, the mix of things that make you, you.
Transcript
What the lesson says
What shapes the person you are?
Your identity is who you are, the mix of things that make you, you.
Many influences shape your identity. Let's look at four common ones.
Family shapes you through what you learn at home.
Friends can shape what you try and what you enjoy.
Culture shapes you through your language and traditions.
Values are what you believe is important, like honesty and kindness.
Other things count too, like school, media and hobbies.
All of these mix together to make one unique you.
Your identity keeps changing as you grow and meet new people and ideas.
Your values help you choose which influences to follow.
Family, friends, culture and values all help shape who you are.
Curriculum
Where this fits
- British Columbia, Grade 6
Physical and Health Education, Mental well-being: influences on individual identity, including sexual identity, gender, values, and beliefsBC6-PH-17
The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.
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