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SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

• Ask students to chart their own roles and responsibilities in their families at birth, in Grade 1, and at the present time. Then have them predict how their responsibilities might change in the future.
• Have students raise and care for tadpoles, chicks, or other living things in the classroom. As they do, ask them whether they think people need this kind of care and what further care humans might require. Encourage awareness of the "golden rule" (do unto others as you would have them do unto you).
• Invite students to create short skits to show care and nurturing in home and school settings.
• Have students collect pictures of individuals (both male and female) at various stages of life (infant, child, teenager, adult, elderly person). Discuss how an individual’s physical characteristics change with age. Identify the normal, predictable changes.
• Ask students to discuss with their parents or guardians the life of a family member. Have them collect pictures of that person at various stages of her or his life and physical development.
• Elicit ideas from the class to develop a two-column chart listing the distinguishing characteristics of males and females. Emphasize use of appropriate vocabulary. Discuss how physical characteristics change and will continue to change over time. If students identify differences in the roles or behaviours of males and females, use the opportunity to discuss stereotypes.

SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES

• When students consider thoughtful, caring behaviours needed to raise and care for animals in the classroom, ask them such questions as:

• What do animals need to survive?
• What do humans need to survive?
• How can these needs be met?
• What happens if people are not cared for?

Assess the extent to which their answers reflect understanding.

• As students participate in activities in which they describe some of the physical changes of individuals during their lives, note the extent to which they are able to identify:

• changes related to various ages
• physical changes of males
• physical changes of females

  Print Materials

• Working It Out: Tools For Everyday Peacemakers

 Video

• Being Safe

  Multimedia

• B.C. Life Skills
• Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum, Grades 4–5
• Student WorkSafe 4 Module

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