Dealing with Peer Pressure Worksheets

About This Worksheet Collection

This Dealing with Peer Pressure collection provides educators with a wide range of thoughtful, age-appropriate activities that help students recognize, understand, and respond to peer influence. Through stories, scenarios, dialogues, reflections, and advice writing, the worksheets offer multiple entry points for students to explore both positive and negative forms of peer pressure. The materials are designed to be relatable and engaging, allowing students to see themselves in everyday situations while learning how to make confident, responsible choices.

As learners work through the collection, they develop essential skills such as decision-making, empathy, assertive communication, and self-awareness. The worksheets reinforce reading comprehension, reflective writing, and scenario analysis while empowering students to think critically about influences in their lives. With a strong emphasis on confidence-building and personal responsibility, these activities support students in becoming resilient, thoughtful individuals who can stand up for what is right-both online and in person.

Detailed Descriptions Of These Worksheets

Standing Strong
Students read a story about a girl who resists joining a prank despite pressure from her friends. They answer multiple-choice questions that highlight her decision-making process, emotional insight, and personal growth. The worksheet helps learners explore how empathy and responsibility shape strong choices. It also strengthens comprehension skills as students interpret character actions and moral themes.

Peer Pressure Choices
This worksheet presents ten short scenarios that students classify as either examples of positive choices or negative peer pressure. Through these quick judgments, learners practice distinguishing between helpful encouragement and harmful influence. The task builds awareness of peer dynamics and teaches students to recognize early warning signs of unhealthy pressure. It supports responsible decision-making and clear, confident thinking.

Pressure to Please
Students read about a boy who is pressured to cheat during a test and answer questions about his internal conflict and ultimate choice. The worksheet concludes with a reflection prompt that encourages learners to connect the story to their own experiences. This activity develops reading comprehension while reinforcing the importance of integrity and responsible choices. It also promotes honest self-reflection.

Friendship Influence
Learners read fifteen examples of friendly interactions and label each one as a positive or negative influence. The scenarios include supportive encouragement, dishonest suggestions, acts of kindness, and harmful pressure. By sorting these examples, students build awareness of what strong, healthy friendships look like. The activity fosters critical thinking and social-emotional understanding.

Standing Your Ground
In this worksheet, students read brief dialogues where one person pressures another and choose the best assertive, respectful response. They practice recognizing unhealthy influence and articulating firm yet kind boundary-setting. The task encourages confident communication in everyday situations. It helps learners strengthen refusal skills and self-advocacy.

Peer Pressure Advice
Students read fictional letters from peers facing pressure and write thoughtful advice in response. This activity encourages empathy, emotional support, and clear problem-solving. As they craft their advice, learners reflect on strategies that help resist pressure themselves. It also builds strong written communication and practical coping skills.

Peer Pressure Reflection
Students complete sentence starters that prompt them to think about how they would respond to pressure in positive, confident ways. The activity supports self-awareness as learners identify their own strategies for staying true to their values. It also encourages emotional regulation and responsible decision-making. Students practice writing in complete, meaningful sentences.

Smarts Under Pressure
Learners read three incomplete scenarios involving peer pressure and write the next few sentences describing a responsible, safe choice. This task encourages creativity while helping students think through consequences and positive solutions. It strengthens decision-making skills and reinforces the idea that thoughtful choices lead to better outcomes. Students also practice clear, expressive writing.

Influence Reflections
This worksheet provides reflective prompts about resisting negative influence, supporting friends, and making confident choices. Students write detailed responses that describe personal experiences and strategies they can use in difficult moments. The activity builds self-awareness and encourages positive internal dialogue. It also strengthens writing fluency and clear expression.

Digital Peer Pressure
Students examine online peer pressure scenarios involving social media, messaging, and digital trends. They choose the safest and most responsible responses to each situation. This activity helps learners navigate modern challenges such as exclusion, rumors, and unsafe requests. It builds digital citizenship, decision-making, and online safety skills.

Pressure Perspectives
In this activity, students interview a trusted adult about their experiences with peer pressure and summarize what they learned. They practice asking meaningful questions, taking notes, and writing an organized summary. The worksheet builds perspective-taking and helps students understand how others handle difficult choices. It also supports listening comprehension and reflective writing.

True Peer Choices
Students read an informational passage about two teens who faced different peer pressure situations and made thoughtful decisions. Reflection questions guide them to connect the story to their own lives and values. This worksheet encourages learners to think deeply about integrity, responsibility, and the importance of slowing down before acting. It combines comprehension, self-management, and real-life application.