Idaho Social Studies 2.SS.4.3

Social Studies2nd GradeCivics and Government

The Standard

Identify the people or groups that make, apply, and enforce rules and laws at home, school, communities, and our state.

Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students name who makes rules at home, at school, in their community, and in the state. They identify who uses a rule to make a decision and who makes sure people follow it.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can name a caregiver for a bedtime rule, a teacher for a classroom rule, and lawmakers for a state law. They can explain that a judge uses laws to decide cases and police officers help enforce laws.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think police officers make laws or that judges give out every penalty. They may also think each job belongs to a different person, even though a caregiver or teacher can make and enforce a rule.
How to Assess It: Give students a hallway rule and a state speed law. For each, ask them to name someone who makes it, someone who uses it to make a decision, and someone who checks that people follow it.

Lesson moves

On four mats, use caregiver, teacher, council, lawmaker, judge, and officer cards to assign jobs for bedtime, hallway, park, and speed rules.
Write about a hallway rule: Who decided it, who uses it when a child runs, and who reminds the child to walk?
Play Make, Apply, or Enforce: read 'A judge decides a case' or 'An officer issues a ticket'; students point to the matching sign.
Show a state highway speed-limit sign; ask who sets the limit, who tickets speeding drivers, and who decides a disputed ticket.

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