This inquiry is an exploration into the concept of responsibility, beginning within the home and then expanding to school and the community. In examining the idea that we all have important responsibilities, students should consider the question of what could happen if they choose to act irresponsibly. Through interaction with the formative performance tasks and featured sources, students build their knowledge and understanding such that they should be able to develop an argument that answers the compelling question “Why do I have to be responsible?”
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Compelling Question
Why Do I Have to Be Responsible?
Staging Question
Watch a clip from the PBS Kids video Responsibilities and participate in a discussion unpacking the meaning of the word.
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Supporting QuestionWhat does responsibility look like?
Formative TasksDraw a picture of themselves acting responsibly and describe the picture to a partner.
SourcesSource A: Image bank: Acting responsibly
2
Supporting QuestionWhat are my responsibilities at home and at school?
Formative TasksConstruct a class T-chart showing home based and school-based responsibilities.
SourcesSource A: Teacher-located books on responsibility
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Supporting QuestionWhat would happen if I weren’t responsible?
Formative TasksCreate a two-panel comic describing what would happen in school or at home if we did not carry out our responsibilities.
SourcesSource A: Image bank: Responsibility scenarios
Summative Performance Task
Argument: Why do I have to be responsible? Construct an argument supported by evidence that addresses how you can be a better member of your family and class by being responsible.
Extension:
Taking Informed Action
Understand: Accomplished through Formative Tasks 1 and 2
Assess: Accomplished through Formative Task 3
Act: Demonstrate responsibility by selecting a class community-service project to undertake.