Activity 3: Skill-building Activities (20 min.

Let’s practice! After completing each exercise, you may refer to the Key to Corrections for
feedback. Try to complete each exercise before looking at the feedback.

Exercise 1: Identify what stage is described.

DESCRIPTION STAGE OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT

1. The child will act or obey to avoid Stage 1: Punishment/Obedience
punishment

2. One is motivated to act in order to Stage 4: Law and Order

uphold law and order.
3. One is motivated to act by the benefit Stage 2: Mutual Benefit/Instrumental
that one may obtain later. Orientation
4. One will act based on social justice Stage 5: Social Contract
and the common good.
5. One is motivated by what others Stage 3: Social Approval
expect in behavior -- good boy, good
girl

Exercise 2: Describe Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development.

Answer:

Kohlberg's theory of moral development is a theory that focuses on how children develop
morality and moral reasoning. Kohlberg's theory suggests that moral development occurs in a
series of six stages and that moral logic is primarily focused on seeking and maintaining justice.
Moral development is the process by which people develop the distinction between right and
wrong (morality) and engage in reasoning between the two (moral reasoning).

Activity 4: What I Know Chart, part 2 (2 min.)

It’s time to answer the questions in the What I Know Chart in Activity 1. Log in your answers
in the 3rd column of the table (What I Learned).

Questions: What I Learned

1. What is the Pre-Conventional Level? Moral reasoning is based on the
consequence/result of the act, not on the
whether the act itself is good

2. What is the Conventional Level?
3. What is the Post-Conventional Level?
or bad.
It is more concerned with group approval
and consensus
- It is the stage in which moral decisions are
made according to universal considerations
of what is
right. It is based on a higher moral sense of
what is right and principled.