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Lesson 2.1: Learning about conflict.
What does the word "conflict" mean?
Do kids have conflicts?
Do family members have conflicts?
Do communities have conflicts?
How about nations?
What can you do to solve a conflict?
What does it mean to have a "Win/Win" solution?
Watch, Conflict Resolution and Four steps to solving a problem.
Read, "Enemy Pie" if time allows.
Lesson 2.2: Planning
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Ask students to look around their classroom and image it before there was anything in the room.
Now ask students to look at everything and estimate the amount of time it would take to put up everything.
Ask why did their teacher put up all that stuff?
Watch, "Thinking skills" to 1.33.
Planning takes thought, practice, deciding on what, why and how?
Watch, "The Importance of Planning".
What was the best way to do this?
Lesson 2.3 Anticipating Consequences
What are consequences? Watch the video below.
Use, "Choices in a jar" or "Choices and Consequences" Lesson Plan
Read "The Magic of Me: My Magical Choice"
When confronted with a problem, you must make a decision and tell the consequences of your decisions?
ChoicesandConsequencesADecisionMakingActivityPacket-1.pdfLesson 2.4 Evaluating Alternatives
You know the story of the three little pigs. What happened?
Did they make choices? What were the choices?
Did they anticipate the consequences of their choices?
Let's see what would have happened if they had done so: Watch, "Three LIttle Pigs" below.
What alternatives did the Pigs come up with?
Who knows the story of Humpty Dumpty? What happened?
What should Humpty have thought of before he sat on that wall? What could he have done?
Let's see if he made any wiser choices. Discuss them.
If time allows, share several scenarios one at a time:
1. Playing baseball. You have played baseball with your friends on this lot near a house. The owner of the house has asked you to shift the direction of your game so that you do not break a window. You are up at bat and hit the ball. It breaks your neighbor’s window.
2. What do you do? Make a list of all of the ways you could respond.
3. How could the homeowner respond?
4. Does the home owner’s response in the past influence your decision?
Additional scenarios:
5. You need to do well on the test that is coming up. You have been very busy and it is not the morning of the test. What do you do? Why?
6. You have been picked on by a student in an higher grade level. What do you do? Why?
Ask students to come up with 3 possible alternatives as a solution. Ask them what their favorite solution it and why?
Lesson 2.7: Logistics
Define logistics.
While you are watching, write down any jobs that come to mind that you see or think might be needed.
Discuss
What skills does a person need to have to do that kind of job?
How does one learn that skill?
Lesson 2.8: Space
We talked about going to the moon this year and what you would need to do.
Let's watch this video about the moon landing.
What emotions do you think the astronauts had?
How do you get over being scared?
How do you handle yourself if you are so excited?
Let's go to Space Camp!
Lesson 2.8: Hobby Farms
How did people live 200 years ago?
Did they have land around them and what did they do with their land?
Watch this video? Would you like to live like that?
Now here is the big question: What do you do with all the poo?
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