Community Rights and Responsibilities
CONCEPTUALUnderstand their rights and responsibilities as a member of a community — that everyone has a right to be treated with respect and to feel safe, and that with rights come responsibilities to treat others the same way
Mastery Evidence
- Name at least three rights that every child has (e.g., safety, education, respect)
- Describe the responsibilities that go along with those rights
- Give an example of how exercising their own rights responsibly supports the community
Assessment Prompt
“Can [child] explain that they have a right to feel safe at school AND a responsibility to help make school safe for others — understanding that rights and responsibilities go together?”
Curriculum Standards1 alignment
PSPE.INT.P3.CU.5IB PYP Personal, Social and Physical Education (PSPE) Scope and Sequencecodes onlyPrerequisites2
- Vocabulary: ethics and citizenshiphardAges 7—11
- Rules and agreements existhardAges 5—7
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- Vocabulary: ethics and citizenship hard
Rights and responsibilities as a framework requires precise vocabulary distinguishing these two related concepts
- Vocabulary: making decisions and keeping safe hard
Understanding why rules exist requires vocabulary of 'rule', 'safe', and 'fair'
- Vocabulary: making decisions and keeping safe hard
Understanding that actions have consequences requires the vocabulary word 'consequence' as a named concept
- Vocabulary: making decisions and keeping safe hard
Distinguishing right from wrong requires vocabulary including 'honest', 'fair', 'trust', and 'right and wrong'
Unlocks3
- Difficult Ethical ChoicessoftAges 9—11
- Ethical Frameworks and Moral ReasoninghardAges 13—14
- Ethics in Real-World IssuessoftAges 9—11