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Fair Rules and Responsibilities

Kindergartners test rules for fairness (does the rule treat everyone the same way and help the group?), learn that a responsibility is a job others count on you to do, and help a class make and change a rule by sharing ideas and voting.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 40 minutes
  • Rules and responsibilities: 5 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, count, match pairs, put in order, sort into groups and true or false
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What learners will discover

  • Decide whether a rule is fair by asking if it applies to everyone and helps the group be safe or fair.
  • Explain what a responsibility is and name responsibilities at home and at school.
  • Take part in making or changing a class rule by sharing ideas and voting.

Lessons

  1. Is this rule fair? 4 steps2 practiceabout 13 min
  2. Responsibilities 4 steps3 practiceabout 12 min
  3. Making and changing rules 5 steps3 practiceabout 15 min
  4. Rules and responsibilities 5 questions at the end

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