Extension Activities

Self-Awareness | Grades 4-5

Learning Goal 3: Demonstrates awareness of personal rights and responsibilities.

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Benchmark 1: Define their role in ensuring safety and respect for others.

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Students create posters or drawings about safe and respectful environments, and discuss the roles of students and adults.

Benchmark 2: Accepting positive or negative consequences of their own choices and actions.

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Use restorative circle processes to assert rights and responsibilities.

Benchmark 3: Identify areas of personal responsibility.

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Include “responsibility” as a vocabulary word. Lead a discussion about what personal responsibility means. Ask students to reflect on their personal responsibilities in response to journal prompts or in pair shares.

Benchmark 4: Explain the benefits of being responsible to self and others.

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As part of a reflection – in response to journal prompts or in pair shares – ask students to describe the benefits of being responsible to self and others.