Lesson Name/Topic: Everyone Has Values

Grade/Domain: 5th – Social Emotional Learning

ASCA National Standards: PS:A1 Acquire Self-

knowledge - PS:A1.1 Develop positive attitudes toward

self as a unique and worthy person, PS:A1.2 Identify

values, attitudes, PS:A1.9 Demonstrate cooperative

behavior in groups and beliefs, PS:A1.10 Identify

personal strengths and assets. PS:A2 Acquire

Interpersonal Skills – PS:A2.3 Recognize, accept, respect and appreciate individual differences.

PS:B1 Self-knowledge Application - PS:B1.7 Demonstrate and respect and appreciation for

individual and cultural differences.

Objectives:
 Students will be introduced and building on the idea of personal values and the way in

which different people define their own values.

 Students will recognize and understand that their peers and other individuals value

different things for different reasons.

 Students will recognize and understand that their values and other peoples values will

evolve and change over time and with new experiences.

Opening: I will being this lesson by asking my students to brainstorm with a couple questions or

ideas in mind:

 What are values?

 What are somethings, people, or places that you value?

After the students have had some time to think about these questions I will start to hand out small

sheets of paper for the first activity of this lesson. Students will be given in total 16 note card

sized pieces of paper in various colors. There will be 5 pink, 4 yellow, 3 blue, 2 green, and 2

purple sheets of papers.

Content: Students will then start applying some of the things they value to the activity. I will ask

the students 5 different questions that will coincide with each color paper.

 5 Pink Sheets – 5 different belongings/assets they value

 4 Yellow Sheets – 4 different places they value

 3 Blue Sheets – 3 different people they value

 2 Green Sheets – 2 dream jobs

 2 Purple Sheets – 2 biggest accomplishments

Upon students filling out and completing their sheets the activity will continue. Students will

then be asked to remove sheets little by little until they end up with the 4 most valued sheets.

Following this activity I will have students share out if they choose to about their experience

with dwindling down their values. Next, students will talk with their tables about their different

values and why they decided to eliminate the sheets they did. After students discussed amongst

their tables we will move into the final activity: Values Bingo. With such a wide variation of

students there is also a wide differentiation of what is valued. I will be providing Bingo Cards

created by myself with a variation of different valued items. Prior to giving the students their

Bingo Cards they are first assigned to create a list of 20 different things that they value. This will

be the list they use while playing Bingo. By creating the list of values the students will not be

able to decide they value something in the middle of the game just to get Bingo. The options on
the Bingo Cards that I may call could include values such as: Family, Vacation, My Dream Job,

or Becoming Captain of My Sports Team.

Closing: We will then play Values Bingo until there is roughly 15 to 20 minutes remaining in

the class period and winning students will receive a piece or two of candy as a prize. I will end

the lesson by asking students to answer the following questions and having a quick discussion

with the class:

 Why do you think your classmates and other individuals in general may value different

things, people, places, or ideas than yourself?

 How do you feel your current values may change in the next 4 years of high school?

Materials:
 Colored Values Sheets

 Bingo Cards

 Candy

Resources:

Elias, M. (2017, July 03). Helping Your Students Identify Their Values. Retrieved May 03,

2020, from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/helping-your-students-identify-their-values-

maurice-elias

Fung, H. H., Ho, Y. W., Zhang, R., Zhang, X., Noels, K. A., & Tam, K.-P. (2016). Age

differences in personal values: Universal or cultural specific? Psychology and

Aging, 31(3), 274–286. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000082