Right and Wrong Choices
Know the difference between right and wrong in familiar everyday situations — understanding basic rules about honesty, not hurting others, respecting others' property, and being fair — and choose to do the right thing even when it's harder
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Explain a safe, honest repair for a fictional mistake and why another person's belongings matter.
Can distinguish telling what happened from blaming; no confession or behaviour reward required.
Check activity readiness with accessible response; pause or supply prerequisite help when needed. Do not treat age range or graph position as attainment.
Open teaching first, then learner cards. Adult key stays separate. Read supplied content; do not invent a passage, scene or history image.
Show and guided material are for teaching. Put them aside before recall; any passage, word bank or model used during the check must be recorded as support. Learner givens remain available for source-reading tasks.
Only scrap paper, pencil or ordinary safe objects where the authored task explicitly uses them; oral/pointing alternatives allowed.
No account, recording, real-user data or compulsory personal disclosure.
Materials are ready in each step. Use them on screen or print just the current step. Put teaching examples aside before the learner tries.
What this lesson covers and its limits
These are bounded opportunities, not learner attainment. Partial and blocked source requirements remain so.
- partial: Know the difference between right and wrong in familiar everyday situations — understanding basic rules about honesty, not hurting others, respecting others' property, and being fair — and choose to do the right thing even when it's harder
Bounded objective and prepared task only; all examples, universal claims and real-world behaviour are not established. No actual damage, forced confession, punitive trap or requirement to disclose wrongdoing. Fictional choice is not independent honesty under pressure.
- opportunity: Identify the right and wrong choice in a simple moral scenario
Scenario explicitly compares truthful and untruthful actions.
- partial: Choose to be honest even when lying would avoid trouble
Hypothetical choice cannot establish honesty when real consequences are at stake.
- opportunity: Explain why rules about not hurting others and being honest matter
Prompt asks why honesty and avoiding harm matter.
- partial: If {{name}} accidentally breaks something at a friend's house, do they tell the truth about it rather than hiding it or blaming someone else?
Prepared adapted check is not a complete equivalent to all source contexts, images or genuine independent habits. No actual damage, forced confession, punitive trap or requirement to disclose wrongdoing. Fictional choice is not independent honesty under pressure.
No actual damage, forced confession, punitive trap or requirement to disclose wrongdoing. Fictional choice is not independent honesty under pressure.
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Explain a safe, honest repair for a fictional mistake and why another person's belongings matter.
Explain a safe, honest repair for a fictional mistake and why another person's belongings matter.
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Check understanding
- Identify the right and wrong choice in a simple moral scenario
- Choose to be honest even when lying would avoid trouble
- Explain why rules about not hurting others and being honest matter
“If your child accidentally breaks something at a friend's house, do they tell the truth about it rather than hiding it or blaming someone else?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Responsible Decision-Making
- Age range
- Ages 5–7