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Asking for missing project supplies
Grades 6–8 · Ready-made original
Learning goal
Separate a choice you can make from a decision an adult must handle.
Materials
The student page below and a pencil.
Opening question · 3 minutes
“What can the student do and what must an adult clarify?”
A school situation · 5 minutes
A science team lacks the supplies listed for a project. Quinn thinks the team has to buy the supplies at home. The teacher has not said that.
One possible response · 4 minutes
Quinn can ask what school supplies or changes are available. Providing needed materials is an adult planning problem, not Quinn’s responsibility alone.
Practice · 10 minutes
What can the student do and what must an adult clarify?
1. A project requires a material the school has not provided. The student thinks they must buy it.
2. A group task has no clear direction about how students should divide the work.
Possible answers
1. “What school-provided material or alternative can I use?”
2. Ask the teacher to clarify the task, then choose roles using the answer.
Student page · 5 minutes
Use the ready-to-print student page at the end of this lesson. Students may write, draw, or give an answer aloud.
Exit question · 3 minutes
“Choose one of the stories. What could the student say or do first?”
Student page to print
Asking for missing project supplies
Write, draw, or say your answer. You may pass.
An example
A science team lacks the supplies listed for a project. Quinn thinks the team has to buy the supplies at home. The teacher has not said that.
What can the student do and what must an adult clarify?
One possible response: Quinn can ask what school supplies or changes are available. Providing needed materials is an adult planning problem, not Quinn’s responsibility alone.
1. A project requires a material the school has not provided. The student thinks they must buy it.
What can the student do and what must an adult clarify?
2. A group task has no clear direction about how students should divide the work.
What can the student do and what must an adult clarify?
One sentence to keep
Choose one story above. Write the first thing the person could say or do.