Click on the following links. Please note these will open in a new window.

1. Choosing a Partner for a Successful Relationship:  http://bogglesworldesl.com/loverelationships.htm

There is a link on this webpage for a survey on choosing your ideal partner.  Prior to taking the survey, write down what you think are the five most important characteristics/behaviors for a potential life-partner.  After taking the survey, compare and contrast your initial ideas with the survey outcome. 

2. Healthy Relationships:  https://classroom.kidshealth.org/classroom/9to12/personal/growing/healthy_relationships.pdf

While the above website is designed for high school students, the articles and discussion questions are still applicable to our course.  Read the articles and then answer the discussion questions posted at the website on our discussion board.

3. The Gottman Institute:  https://www.gottman.com/

Visit the Gottman Institute webpage (above) and choose an article to read.  On our discussion board, summarize the article and explain how it relates to the material in chapter eight.

4. Pinterest Board

I use this assignment in all of my classes.  First, create a Pinterest account if you do not already have one.  Create a “class board” for each class in which you will be doing this assignment.  The board must be made public.  Then, using your roster, invite your students to be collaborators for the class board.  Ask the students to “pin” an item or more (video, website, article, visual graphic, etc.) related to chapter one (no repeat pins).  Then, have them comment on a few of their peers’ pins, relating the pin to the chapter’s material.  If you want to see how successful this assignment can be, check out my class boards:  https://www.pinterest.com/professorgrayso/

By viewing the pins and comments, you will be able to see how the students understood the course material.  However, you could have them discuss the pins on a discussion board or write a journal about what they learned by viewing the pins and how the pins related to course material.