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Why we have rules: K to 2nd people & places

Rules at home and school: fairness, taking turns and why rules help. A free K to 2nd lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students work toward: rules at home and school: fairness, taking turns and why rules help.

Hook (5 min)

  • Ask the class: What are rules for?
  • Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.

Teach (10 min)

  • Say the big idea in one plain sentence: why we have rules.
  • Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
  • Have students tell a partner the idea in their own words.

Practise (15 min)

  • Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
  • Learn: Kind Rules (https://peabody.kids/world/citizenship/citizenship-kind-rules)
  • Learn: Rules Help Us (https://peabody.kids/world/citizenship/citizenship-rules-help-us)
  • Print: Class rules poster (https://teach.peabody.kids/printables/posters/class-rules-poster)
  • Try: Quiz: rules and helpers (https://peabody.kids/practice/hist/civics)

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about why we have rules, and one question I still have.
  • Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.

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