Grade 5
Personal Development (Family Life Education)

This sub-organizer contains the following sections:
Prescribed Learning Outcomes
Suggested Instructional Strategies
Suggested Assessment Strategies
Recommended Learning Resources

PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES

It is expected that students will:

• describe how families change
• identify the physical, emotional, and social changes associated with puberty
• describe the family’s role in developing moral and behavioural standards

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SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

• Have students interview people from older generations to gather information about changes that have occurred in families over the years. Ask them to include questions about changes in technologies, such as television, computers, and forms of travel.
• Use a video or invite a guest speaker (e.g., the school nurse, the school counsellor, a doctor, another teacher) to discuss the physical, emotional, and social changes of puberty. Students could be given an opportunity to anonymously submit questions in order to correct misinformation and provide further information.
• As a class, brainstorm possible family rules. Ask students to suggest reasons why the rules might be important in a family.
• Have students work in groups to identify "rules" for raising children in literature from different time periods. Have students create a chart or timeline of their findings. Discuss the similarities and differences of these rules. Then have students create "rules" for raising children today.
• Give students scenarios that relate to behavioural or moral standards (e.g., older child is bullying a younger child; while shopping at the mall, a friend puts an item in her or his pocket without paying for it; an older friend asks a student in Grade 5 to "go out"). Have students work in groups to identify the values involved. Ask groups to suggest what the parents, siblings, or grandparents of the different characters in the scenarios might say about the situation.

SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES

• Work with students to develop a set of interview questions that will explore changes that have occurred in families. Remind students that they should be polite, listen carefully, and record information in a useful way when interviewing. Have students share their information with the class. Ask each student to prepare summary statements that complete the following stems:

• One thing that I noticed about changing roles within families is –––––––––––––– .
• One thing that I observed about changes in family groups is –––––––––––––– .
• Three factors that have effected change in families are –––––––––––––– .

• To assess students’ understanding of the changes associated with puberty, use a true-or-false quiz regarding physical, emotional, and social changes.
• After the class develops rules for raising children today, have students reflect on what they have learned about how families may influence moral and behavioural standards. Ask each student to list two things they learned from this activity. Look for evidence that they understand the importance of families in developing moral and behavioural standards.

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