Lesson 4: The Respect Campaign
“The Respect Campaign” (TCTL.4.4) is a 60-minute lesson from the Today’s Challenges; Today’s Leaders: Real World Conversations for the Classroom series that helps students understand the value of respect. Students explore self-respect and respect for others through discussion of political campaigns, then create campaign posters illustrating the qualities of respect using a provided rubric.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Describe the importance of self respect.
- Recognize how self-respect translates to respecting others.
- Construct a personal definition of respect.
- Time required
- 60 minutes
- Materials
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- Large poster paper – one per student or computer access for each student
- TCTL.4.4.AS.A – one per student
- Creative supplies (markers, colored pencils, glue, etc.) not needed if you use computers
- Purpose
- The purpose of this lesson is to understand the value of respect.
- Resource
- Borba, Michelle. 2006. 35 Activities your students can do to learn respect. Retrieved from http://www.micheleborba.com/Pages/BMI05.htm