Good Manners are Fun!
Grades 2-4
Description: A classroom atmosphere is created in which students become excited about using their best manners. They practice good manners and use technology as a tool for their manners unit.
Objectives:
To encourage children to use good manners
To teach students about proper behavior in the classroom and in other social situations
To use technology as a tool for learning about manners and values
Software and Hardware: Computer lab (see adaptations if lab is not available). Optional: scanner, digital camera, video camera or video clips, and LCD; software--word processing, outlining, data base, desktop publishing, clip art, presentation.
Other Needs: Information on good manners
Time Required: "Good Manners are Fun!" may involve several lessons or could become a unit or year-long theme for a class.
Procedures:Note: Manners and values instruction may fit into the social studies curriculum or may be integrated into coursework through a cross-curricular approach.
There are numerous ways to include manners and technology in the curriculum. A few suggestions are:
Students write and publish their own books of good manners. These books emphasize values, respect for others, and integrity in addition to proper behavior in different social situations. The books might be called, "Manners for Grade ___ Students," "Manners is our Favorite Subject," or "We Love Good Manners."
Each student completes a few HyperCard stack pages on a specific area manners. The pages are merged to create a class stack about good manners.
Students create posters and banners about manners.
Students write thank you letters to a guest speaker or for a gift.
Students make an outline about good manners at the theater, in the home at a meal, at a party, etc.
Students create stories about problems with manners. These stories should be the type which end but are not finished. The stories are printed and distributed for the class to read and role play the situations.
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