Respect of Property & Belongings
Grade 6 Lesson 14
Time Required: 30-45 minutes
Content Standards:
AA.S.7
Students will acquire knowledge, attitudes and
interpersonal skills to help them understand
and respect self and others.
Indicators:
AA.PSD.6.7.13 Demonstrate respect for others and their
property.
GOAL: To understand the concept of respect towards others, their
property, and belongings.
Activity Statement:
Students will review what respect for others and their property looks like and will participate in
small group discussions on how not respecting others property affects everyone involved.
Materials:
1. Handout 1 - Definition of Respect
2. Handout 2 - Discussion Scenario’s
3. Handout 3 – Identifying Infractions to the Law
Procedures:
1. Lead the group in a discussion on what it means to respect others and their property. Help
them define respect. (Formal definition included for your convenience)
2. Divide the group into small groups of three or four.
3. Read aloud one at a time the paragraphs from the Discussion Scenario’s and ask student to
discuss each in their small groups and come to a consensus on how to respond.
4. After each scenario has been discussed in the small groups and they have made a decision,
bring it to the class and have each of the small groups report what they decided and why.
Facilitate a class debate. Continue through all the scenario’s.
Respecting Other and Property
GRADE 6 LESSON 14
Discussion Points for the Scenarios:
1. What are some possible courses of action? What are some of the costs of shoplifting? Are
there drawbacks to your course of action? List some ways he the owner is affected. List
some ways the customers are affected. What would happen to the shoplifters if they were
caught?
2. What kind of a friend are you if you tell? (you may have to really work to get an appropriate
response here) What happens if you don’t report what you saw? What happens if you do? What is
the right thing to do? Why?
3. What factors do you believe contribute to teenagers committing property crimes? What do you
think would reduce the number of property crimes committed by teenagers in your community? If
you were a city official, how would you go about implementing crime reduction in your community.
4. What are the programs in your community that help people protect their property from vandalism
and prevent burglaries? How do these programs help?
Additional Resources: the following are websites that offer information or teens and crime.
http://www.ncpc.org/programs/teens-crime-and-the-community
http://www.ci.mpls.mn.us/police/outreach/
http://www.sacsheriff.com/crime_prevention/index.cfm
Extension Activities:
1. Ask your students to share situation they were in where they had to decide what is right
and what is wrong.
2. Ask them to share situations of being a victim or knowing a victim of a crime.
3. Instruct students to read the newspaper everyday for one week and keep a running count
how many crimes are reported during that week. Discuss as a group.
4. Have students complete worksheet 1 on their own and then discuss as a group.
Resource:
Teens, Crime, and the Community
National Crime Prevention Council
West Education Publishing,
Developed by: Pam Bauman, Counselor, WVDE (2009)