Students learn that being a good citizen — at school, at home, and everywhere — means making kind, fair choices: sharing, taking turns, helping others, and cleaning up.
Students will be able to…
A good citizen helps make their class and community a happy place. What choices does a good citizen make every day?
Project this and sort each choice into “Good Citizen” or “Not Yet.” Tap one, then tap the basket — and talk about the kind choice.
Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.
What makes our classroom a happy, kind place?
Students investigate.
Explore more.
Think it through.
Students take action.
Aligned to the C3 Framework for Social Studies and Common Core literacy in social studies.
Apply civic virtues when participating in school settings.
Compare their own point of view with others’ perspectives.
Follow agreed-upon rules and explain how they help.
Participate in conversations, following rules for discussions.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Have the class choose one kind thing to do together this week and make a plan to do it. A printable kindness-plan sheet is in the Social Studies library.
Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.
A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.
A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.