Extension Activities
Social Awareness | Grades K-3
Learning Goal 4: Demonstrates awareness of external supports and when supports are needed.
Go back: Core Ed.
Go back: Intervention Ed.
Benchmark 1: Identify an adult they can trust.
Take it further — integrate!
Define trust as a vocabulary word.
Ask students to list qualities of a person they would trust.
Benchmark 2: Explain situations when students may need help.
Take it further — integrate!
Create a lesson to teach the difference between big/small problems and have students give example scenarios.
Routinely support students in seeking help from others.
Model out loud how to ask for help, e.g., “I’m going to ask the principal if she knows who could help us with that. She knows a lot of people in the community. I will find a time she’s not busy to ask.”
Benchmark 3: Understand how and where to get help in an emergency situation.
Take it further — integrate!
Students’ role play simple “what if” situations and discuss how to handle the situations, e.g., “What if you couldn’t find your book bag?”; “What if you saw someone who was hurt in the playground?”