Rights and Responsibilities Jr. Lesson Plan: Civic Ideals and Practices

Grade Levels: K-3

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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP Jr. topic Rights and Responsibilities, and supports the standard of identifying rights and responsibilities in the classroom, school, and community. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.

Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

Ask students:

  • What are some of your responsibilities at school and at home?
  • Why is it important for people to fulfill their responsibilities? 

Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE

  • Play the Rights and Responsibilities movie.  
  • Click the pause button each time a question appears in Annie’s Notebook and discuss it as a class. Then play to see how Annie answers it. 

TIP: The pause button turns red to remind you to pause. 

Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS

Students take the Easy Quiz or Hard Quiz, demonstrating what they learned about the topic while applying essential literacy skills.

Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND

Students express what they learned about rights and responsibilities while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student or grade-level needs.

  • Draw About It: Draw something you can do to make your community better. 
  • Activity: Create a responsibility paper quilt. 
  • Talk About It: Share some of your rights and responsibilities. 
  • Write About It: Describe the responsibilities you have in a community you’re a part of.

More to Explore 

Citizenship Unit: Continue to build understanding around rights and responsibilities by exploring more BrainPOP Jr. topics.

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Lesson Plan Common Core State Standards Alignments

Filed as:  BrainPOP Jr., CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.2, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.3, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.2, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.3, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.1