Actions and Their Consequences

Personal & Social DevelopmentResponsible Decision-MakingAges 5–7

Understand that actions have consequences — that what you choose to do affects both yourself and other people — and begin to think about what might happen before they act

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Predict plausible effects of a fictional action on the actor and others, distinguishing possibilities from certainties.

Activity

Understands consequence as something that follows an action.

Policy

Check activity readiness with accessible response; pause or supply prerequisite help when needed. Do not treat age range or graph position as attainment.

Adult Preparation

Open teaching first, then learner cards. Adult key stays separate. Read supplied content; do not invent a passage, scene or history image.

Stage Separation

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.

Optional Objects

Only scrap paper, pencil or ordinary safe objects where the authored task explicitly uses them; oral/pointing alternatives allowed.

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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: Understand that actions have consequences — that what you choose to do affects both yourself and other people — and begin to think about what might happen before they act
Bounded objective and prepared task only; all examples, universal claims and real-world behaviour are not established. No demand to confess an action. Scenario reasoning does not prove thinking ahead in everyday life.
partial: Describe what happened as a consequence of a specific action they took
Personal incident not required; fictional alternative only.
opportunity: Predict what might happen if they choose a particular action before doing it
Task predicts before the fictional action is selected.
opportunity: Explain that actions can have good or bad consequences for themselves and others
Task contrasts helpful and harmful possible effects on two people.
partial: Before {{name}} does something — like taking a toy from a sibling or running in the corridor — can they stop and think about what might happen as a result?
Prepared adapted check is not a complete equivalent to all source contexts, images or genuine independent habits. No demand to confess an action. Scenario reasoning does not prove thinking ahead in everyday life.

No demand to confess an action. Scenario reasoning does not prove thinking ahead in everyday life.

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Describe what happened as a consequence of a specific action they took
Predict what might happen if they choose a particular action before doing it
Explain that actions can have good or bad consequences for themselves and others

“Before your child does something — like taking a toy from a sibling or running in the corridor — can they stop and think about what might happen as a result?”

Curriculum record

Type: Conceptual
Subject: Personal & Social Development
Domain: Responsible Decision-Making
Age range: Ages 5–7

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