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3rd grade · Social Studies · Unit 9 of 10

Working Together Fairly

Share jobs, listen to others and treat everyone with respect.

What your child practices

Practices group skills: sharing ideas, decisions and responsibilities, being fair and respectful, considering other people's views, listening actively and choosing ways to present information.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 3.1.3.1 · majority rule with minority rights, and respectful talk

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. In a group, share ideas, jobs and decisions.
  2. Listen when others talk, and be kind and polite.
  3. A perspective is someone’s way of seeing things. Others may see it differently, and that’s okay.

Example: Your group disagrees about a poster idea. What should you do first? Every person’s ideas matter. Listening helps you understand their perspective. Answer: listen to everyone’s ideas

Working Together Fairly in Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 9 of 10 in 3rd grade Social Studies, after Time & Evidence and before Minnesota's 11 Tribal Nations.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    A group needs to decide what to build. A fair way to decide is to…

    • never decide
    • listen to everyone then vote
    • let one person choose

  2. Question 2

    Which is a visual way to present information?

    • A poster or chart
    • A silent room
    • A whisper

  3. Question 3

    Which shows active listening?

    • Texting a friend
    • Drawing a doodle
    • Looking at the speaker and asking a question about what they said

  4. Question 4

    You are playing with a new classmate. A kind thing to do is…

    • leave them out
    • invite them to join
    • ignore them

  5. Question 5

    Active listening means…

    • paying full attention to understand the speaker
    • talking over them
    • looking away

  6. Question 6

    A group gets stuck. The best step is to…

    • give up
    • blame one person
    • stop, talk about the problem and try a new plan

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