Identify people who have the authority and power to make and enforce rules and laws.
Students will identify authority figures in their school and community including, but not limited to, parents, teachers and law enforcement officers.
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| Authority Figures, Rules, and Laws with Coding: Dance Party (Lesson 2 of 3) | In this integrated civics lesson plan, students will discuss the purpose of rules and laws while also identifying people who have the authority and power to make and enforce them. Using collaboration and physical movement, students will create a simple algorithm dance. |
| Authority Figures, Rules, and Laws with Coding: Story Adventure (Lesson 3 of 3) | In this integrated civics and computer science lesson plan, students will work in groups to create an algorithm to help the authority figure through the story. |
| Let's Make A Liquid Siren! | In this integrated lesson plan, students will produce their own liquid siren to demonstrate how things that make sound vibrate. |
| Name That Siren! | In this integrated lesson plan, students will identify people who have authority and power to make and enforce rules and laws in their school and community. Students will discover tools which produce sound that people of authority use to enforce rules. |
| Who Has the Power? | The purpose of this lesson is for students to identify people who have the authority and power to make and enforce rules and laws, including parents, teachers, and police officers and describe the tools they use to do their jobs. The students will also analyze a primary source photograph of a 1925 police officer. The students will write about this topic using a scaffolded writing template. |
| People at My School Part 3 | Students will complete a journal entry describing the role of one school authority figure at school as someone who helps others and makes rules to keep students safe. Using notes from previous interviews to guide their writing, students will recall at least one piece of information about the school authority figure’s responsibilities at school to make rules. In this lesson, students will draw their entries and include written or dictated information about the school authority figure. |
| People at My School Part 1 | Students will interview their teacher as a school authority figure. In this lesson, students will practice asking relevant questions focused on their teacher’s responsibilities as a school authority figure. Students will then draw a picture and add a label, writing or dictation of information about their teacher’s responsibilities at school. |
| People at My School Part 2 | Students will interview several school authority figures. In this lesson, students will ask relevant questions focused on the individual’s responsibilities as a school authority figure. Students will then draw a picture and add a label, writing or dictation of information about the individual’s responsibilities at school. |
| Authority Figures within the Community | In this lesson plan, students will identify community authority figures that make and enforce rules and laws. |
| Rules at Home and School | In this lesson plan, teachers will assist students in experiencing the function of rules. Students will then list and share ideas about the necessity of rules at home and school. |
| What Are Rules? | In this lesson, students will learn what rules are, why we have rules, and who makes and enforces the rules at home, in the school, and in the community |
