Rights, Fairness & Shared Decisions
Objectives
- D09.S1.05.01 Explain how a person's values can shape their choices, using a story or example.
- D09.S1.05.02 Compare two possible choices and their consequences for others before deciding.
- D09.S2.05.01 Explain what a right is, where some rights come from (such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child), and why they apply to all children.
- D09.S2.05.02 Compare how fairness was or was not honored in a historical or story example, and who benefited.
- D09.S3.05.01 Explain what government is and what it does, and compare how decisions are made in more than one country.
- D09.S3.05.02 Plan and carry out a small collective action for the common good, such as a cleanup or kindness campaign, and reflect on what made it work.
- D09.S4.05.01 Help two peers solve a simple conflict by having each side listen and find a fair solution.
- D09.S4.05.02 Explain the difference between conflict (disagreement) and violence, and why disagreements can be healthy when handled well.
Essential questions
- How do my values shape my choices and my care for what is fair?
- How do rights, government, and collective action help us decide and live together?
Big ideas
- Values shape choices, and comparing consequences for others helps me decide well.
- Rights belong to all children, fairness must be examined, and government, collective action, and peaceful conflict help people live together.
Lessons
- 1 Values Shape Our Choices 45 minutes
- 2 Two Choices, Two Futures 45 minutes
- 3 What Is a Right? 45 minutes
- 4 Rights Belong to Every Child 45 minutes
- 5 Fairness: Honored or Denied? 45 minutes
- 6 What Is Government? 45 minutes
- 7 How Decisions Get Made: Comparing Countries 45 minutes
- 8 Working Together for the Common Good 45 minutes
- 9 Helping Two Peers Solve a Conflict 45 minutes
- 10 Conflict Is Not Violence 45 minutes
Assessment plan
Observation of value-and-consequence reasoning and conflict mediation; a rights explanation, a fairness comparison, a collective-action plan and reflection, and a conflict-versus-violence note as portfolio artifacts.
Unit 11 — Rights, Fairness & Shared Decisions
Overview
This unit turns to how people think about right and wrong and decide and live together, building on Grade 4’s weighing of reasons, dignity, and rules. Learners explain how a person’s values can shape their choices, using a story or example, and compare two possible choices and their consequences for others before deciding. They explain what a right is, where some rights come from — such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child — and why they apply to all children, and compare how fairness was or was not honored in a historical or story example and who benefited. They explain what government is and what it does, and compare how decisions are made in more than one country. They plan and carry out a small collective action for the common good and reflect on what made it work, help two peers solve a simple conflict by having each side listen and find a fair solution, and explain the difference between conflict and violence — and why disagreements can be healthy when handled well. Questions are held as questions, not answered as dogma.
Essential questions
- How do my values shape my choices and my care for what is fair?
- How do rights, government, and collective action help us decide and live together?
Lessons
| Lesson | Title | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| L.05.011.01 | Values Shape Our Choices | D09.S1.05.01 |
| L.05.011.02 | Two Choices, Two Futures | D09.S1.05.02 |
| L.05.011.03 | What Is a Right? | D09.S2.05.01 |
| L.05.011.04 | Rights Belong to Every Child | D09.S2.05.01 |
| L.05.011.05 | Fairness: Honored or Denied? | D09.S2.05.02 |
| L.05.011.06 | What Is Government? | D09.S3.05.01 |
| L.05.011.07 | How Decisions Get Made: Comparing Countries | D09.S3.05.01 |
| L.05.011.08 | Working Together for the Common Good | D09.S3.05.02 |
| L.05.011.09 | Helping Two Peers Solve a Conflict | D09.S4.05.01 |
| L.05.011.10 | Conflict Is Not Violence | D09.S4.05.02 (capstone: revisits D09.S1.05.01, D09.S2.05.01, D09.S3.05.01) |