Rules for the Common Good
Unit of 3 Lessons
Grade Levels:
K
1
2
Subjects:
Language Arts
Media / Technology
Philanthropy
Social Studies
Keywords:
Issue Area:
Civil society
Focus Question
What is an individual's responsibility to the common good?
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Unit Overview
Students work together to develop a set of classroom rules and an understanding of how rules can meet the needs of the common good.
Service Experience
After working with the class to establish and illustrate a set of rules that meet the needs of the common good in the classroom, students will create a poster of a school rule and post it as a reminder to the rest of the school of the benefits of following the rules.
Lessons in This Unit
Students will develop a set of rules that could be used in the classroom.
The students will summarize and condense their list of rules from the previous lesson.The students will work together to memorize and establish an understanding of the rules.
Students will produce a set of posters that will serve as a reminder of the classroom rules.