Encourage responsible decision-making while boosting sorting skills with a lesson that looks at safe and unsafe situations. Scholars use two bags, one happy the other sad, to sort scenario cards. After a thorough examination, participants discuss which bag they would go to. 

Concepts

safety, drugs, prescription drugs, medicine, healthy habits, sorting, sorting & categorizing, responsibility, responsible decision-making, social-emotional learning

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Write cards specific to an upcoming situation—for example, a field trip—perform the activity to strengthen good choices
• Encourage class embers to speak to their parents and guardians about safety in their home, provide talking points or an action plan to make safety an essential goal

Classroom Considerations

• Final lesson in a series of two that talks about safety
• A counselor or classroom teacher can conduct the lesson

Pros

• Step six comes with two variations 
• Several scenario cards are blank for personalized ideas

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.K.6