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Lesson: Ownership,
Respect, and Responsibility
Subjects
Grade
Brief Description
Students learn to respect others' property by rating the severity of a variety of damaging acts.
Objectives
Students will
Keywords
respect, property, responsibility, public, consequences, punishment
Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students use a tagboard "thermometer" to rate the severity of 15 statements describing situations in which a person damages the property of another.
Alternative idea: Provide students with a work sheet on which are drawn 15 thermometers with a scale of 1 to 10. Let students respond to each situation by coloring a thermometer on their work sheets.
Following are a few examples of the kinds of property-related damages introduced in this activity:
Assessment
Students' understanding is evaluated throughout the lesson by teacher observations. Observation of the ranking students give will indicates students' understanding of this concept.
Lesson Plan Source
Civically Speaking (Minnesota Center for Community Legal Education)
National Standards
LANGUAGE ARTS: English
GRADES K - 12
NL-ENG.K-12.4 Communication Skills
NL-ENG.K-12.6 Applying Knowledge
NL-ENG.K-12.11 Participating in Society
NL-ENG.K-12.12 Applying Language Skills
MATHEMATICS: Measurement
GRADES Pre-K - 2
NM-MEA.PK-2.1 Understand Measurable Attributes of Objects and the Units, Systems, and Processes of Measurement
GRADES 3 - 5
NM-MEA.3-5.1 Understand Measurable Attributes of Objects and the Units, Systems, and Processes of Measurement
GRADES 6 - 8
NM-MEA.6-8.1 Understand Measurable Attributes of Objects and the Units, Systems, and Processes of Measurement
GRADES 9 - 12
NM-MEA.9-12.1 Understand Measurable Attributes of Objects and the Units, Systems, and Processes of Measurement
MATHEMATICS: Representation
GRADES Pre-K - 12
NM-REP.PK-12.3 Use Representations to Model and Interpret Physical, Social, and Mathematical Phenomena
SOCIAL SCIENCES: Civics
GRADES K - 4
NSS-C.K-4.2 Values and Principles of Democracy
NSS-C.K-4.5 Roles of the Citizen
GRADES 5 - 8
NSS-C.5-8.5 Roles of the Citizen
GRADES 9 - 12
NSS-C.9-12.5 Roles of the Citizen
Find more activities for teaching about respect on Education World's Martin Luther King Day holiday page.
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Last updated 1/12/2012
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