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LESSON PLAN 11

WHY DO WE HAVE RULES

Lesson Overview:

Students examine the reasons that there are rules and the value of rules to individuals, families, and society. They sort rules by benefit and create a sample set of rules.

Objective:

Students will learn essential information by:

1. Identifying strategies to stay safe and drug free.

Activities / Strategies:

Ask students to brainstorm a list of situations where rules are important (for example: in games, in sports, on highways, in daily life). Ask what might happen if there were no rules in any of the previously mentioned areas. Ask students to talk about some of the rules we live by that control the way we act and behave toward each other.

Review class or school rules. Ask students why each rule is important and helpful. Summarize the importance of class/school rules (for example: to deep order, to be fair, to be safe).

Create a worksheet with 3 columns with the word Order in column 1, Safety in column 2, and Respect in column 3. Instruct the students to fit the rules, which they have created, under the appropriate column. Explain that some rules may fit into multiple categories. When this occurs, ask students to select the best of the three columns.

When the assignment is complete, ask students to find a partner and compare their rule locations. Explain that some rules are created for more than one reason and therefore could go in different columns.

As a class, develop a set of rules for shared computer use (home or school) and describe how these rules will help keep computer use orderly, fair, and safe.

Assessment Criterion:

Student identifies order, safety and respect (fairness) as the basic reasons for the rules our society lives by and follows these basics to develop a set of class rules for shared use of a computer.

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