Whole Earth Curriculum WEC

Moral Reasoning & Values

D09.S1 P4: Contextual & Ecological Awareness

Asking what is right and why, weighing consequences for others, and forming one's own values with care.

K–12 objective ladder

Taught in

Kindergarten · Fairness & Caring for Others

  1. 1 Kind and Helpful Things
  2. 2 Helping a Friend or Animal
  3. 8 Fairness & Caring for Others

Grade 1 · Fairness & Our Shared Rules

  1. 1 Kind and Unkind Choices
  2. 2 Why a Character Made That Choice
  3. 10 Fairness All Together

Grade 2 · Fairness & Our Shared Rules

  1. 1 Right and Wrong, With a Reason
  2. 2 How Our Acts Reach Another's Feelings
  3. 10 Fairness & Our Shared Rules, All Together

Grade 3 · Fairness & Our Shared Rules

  1. 1 Reasons For and Against
  2. 2 The Same Act, Different Situations
  3. 10 Fairness & Our Shared Rules, All Together

Grade 4 · Rights, Fairness & Our Shared Rules

  1. 1 Which Reason Is Stronger?
  2. 2 What Is a Value? Naming One of Mine
  3. 10 Rights, Fairness & Our Shared Rules, All Together

Grade 5 · Rights, Fairness & Shared Decisions

  1. 1 Values Shape Our Choices
  2. 2 Two Choices, Two Futures
  3. 10 Conflict Is Not Violence

Grade 6 · Fairness, Justice & Shared Decisions

  1. 1 Fact, Belief, or Value?
  2. 2 A Moral Dilemma: Two Right-Seeming Choices
  3. 3 Weighing the Consequences of Each Choice
  4. 10 Restorative Justice vs. Punishment

Grade 7 · Ethics, Justice & Shared Power

  1. 1 Three Questions: Helped, Harmed, Fair
  2. 2 Using the Three Questions
  3. 3 Where Our Ideas of Right and Wrong Come From

Grade 8 · Ethics, Justice & Civic Power

  1. 1 Ethics, Justice & Civic Power: Where We've Been, Where We're Going
  2. 2 Weighing Consequences, Duties, and Fairness
  3. 3 Values and Moral Codes Across Cultures
  4. 10 Capstone: Ethics, Justice & Civic Power — Putting It Together

Grade 9 · Remembering a Painful Past

  1. 1 How Should a Society Remember a Painful Past?

Grade 9 · Ethics, Justice & Political Economy

  1. 1 Three Lenses on Right and Wrong
  2. 2 Consequences: What Happens, to Whom?
  3. 3 Duties: What We Owe
  4. 4 Virtues: Who We Become
  5. 5 One Question, Three Answers
  6. 6 Conscience & Self-Criticism: Keeping My Values Honest
  7. 14 Capstone: Reasoning Across the Whole

Grade 10 · Ethics, Justice & Political Economy

  1. 1 Ethics as Reasoned Weighing
  2. 2 Weighing a Technology: The Phone in My Hand
  3. 3 Weighing an Environment: Energy and Trade-Offs
  4. 4 Hidden Assumptions: Reading the Unsaid
  5. 5 Rebuilding More Fairly

Grade 11 · Ethics, Justice & Political Economy

  1. 1 The Shape of Our Choices
  2. 2 Responsibility When Choices Are Shaped
  3. 3 What Makes a Life Good?
  4. 4 What Makes a Society Good?

Grade 12 · Ethics, Justice & Civic Life

  1. 1 Reasoning Through a Real Moral Dilemma
  2. 2 Weighing Frameworks and Defending a Nuanced Position
  3. 3 How My Values Formed
  4. 4 Testing My Values in the World