Respect of Property & Belongings

Grade 6 Lesson 14

Time Required: 30-45 minutes

Content Standards: AA.S.7 Students will acquire knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others.

Indicators: AA.PSD.6.7.13 Demonstrate respect for others and their property.

GOAL: To understand the concept of respect towards others, their property, and belongings.

Activity Statement: Students will review what respect for others and their property looks like and will participate in small group discussions on how not respecting others property affects everyone involved.

Materials: 1. Handout 1 - Definition of Respect 2. Handout 2 - Discussion Scenario’s 3. Handout 3 – Identifying Infractions to the Law

Procedures: 1. Lead the group in a discussion on what it means to respect others and their property. Help them define respect. (Formal definition included for your convenience) 2. Divide the group into small groups of three or four. 3. Read aloud one at a time the paragraphs from the Discussion Scenario’s and ask student to discuss each in their small groups and come to a consensus on how to respond. 4. After each scenario has been discussed in the small groups and they have made a decision, bring it to the class and have each of the small groups report what they decided and why. Facilitate a class debate. Continue through all the scenario’s. Respecting Other and Property GRADE 6 LESSON 14

Discussion Points for the Scenarios:

1. What are some possible courses of action? What are some of the costs of shoplifting? Are there drawbacks to your course of action? List some ways he the owner is affected. List some ways the customers are affected. What would happen to the shoplifters if they were caught? 2. What kind of a friend are you if you tell? (you may have to really work to get an appropriate response here) What happens if you don’t report what you saw? What happens if you do? What is the right thing to do? Why? 3. What factors do you believe contribute to teenagers committing property crimes? What do you think would reduce the number of property crimes committed by teenagers in your community? If you were a city official, how would you go about implementing crime reduction in your community. 4. What are the programs in your community that help people protect their property from vandalism and prevent burglaries? How do these programs help?

Additional Resources: the following are websites that offer information or teens and crime. http://www.ncpc.org/programs/teens-crime-and-the-community

http://www.ci.mpls.mn.us/police/outreach/

http://www.sacsheriff.com/crime_prevention/index.cfm

Extension Activities: 1. Ask your students to share situation they were in where they had to decide what is right and what is wrong. 2. Ask them to share situations of being a victim or knowing a victim of a crime. 3. Instruct students to read the newspaper everyday for one week and keep a running count how many crimes are reported during that week. Discuss as a group. 4. Have students complete worksheet 1 on their own and then discuss as a group.

Resource: Teens, Crime, and the Community National Crime Prevention Council West Education Publishing,

Developed by: Pam Bauman, Counselor, WVDE (2009)