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How can groups make fair decisions? SS.K.C.2.3 Describe fair ways for groups to make decisions.

1 SS.K.C.2.3 Describe fair ways for groups to make decisions. Correlated Florida Standards (See Full Text on Cover Page)  LAFS.K.SL.1.1, LAFS.K.SL.2.5 Essential Question How can groups make fair decisions? Learning Goal/Objective  Students will be able to identify fair ways in which groups can make decisions. Overview Students will learn fair ways to resolve conflicts as a group through discussion and creating an illustration. Materials  Cake slice images  Unfair/Fair handout Time  15-20 minutes Activity Sequence INTRODUCTION/HOOK 1. Print and cut out the two cake slice pictures. 2. Explain to students that you just came from a party and you are going to share two slices of cake from the party. 3. Pick two random students to come up to the front of the room and hand each of them a picture of a piece of cake. Have the students return to their seats. 4. Tell students that you have no more cake to share. ACTIVITY 5. Project and read the definition of fair. Fair – to treat people equally or the same. 6. Pose the following questions for discussion: Do you think how I handed out the cake slices was fair? Why or why not? What would have been a fair way for the class to decide how to pass out the slices of cake? 7. Have students share their opinions. 8. Share with students that there are many ways groups can make fair decisions. Some of these ways include: taking turns, building a consensus, voting, sharing, etc. CLOSURE 9. Pass out the Unfair/Fair handout to each student. 10. Instruct students to illustrate an unfair situation and a fair way to make a decision in order to fix the situation. 11. Have students share their drawings. 3 Name: ______