Honesty and Integrity

Honesty and Integrity are valuable and necessary skills to flourish in various environments, including higher education, the workplace and personal and civic life. This lesson is designed to help students understand, evaluate and apply skills of integrity. Furthermore, students will connect psychological theories to these transferable skills in order to help them navigate situations where honesty and integrity are required in their future environments, such as college or work.

Author: Stephen Callum
Grade Level: 9-12
Standards: Domain: Development and Learning Standard Area: Development Content Standard 2: Theories of lifespan development 2.2 Discuss theories of moral development Content Standard 6: Adolescence 6.2 Describe the development of reasoning and morality
Materials: Website, https://www.ethicalsystems.org/cheating-honesty/

OVERVIEW

Activity Overview:

Honesty and Integrity are valuable and necessary skills to flourish in various environments, including higher education, the workplace and personal and civic life. This lesson is designed to help students understand, evaluate and apply skills of integrity. Furthermore, students will connect psychological theories to these transferable skills in order to help them navigate situations where honesty and integrity are required in their future environments, such as college or work.

Meta description

  • Grade Level : 9-12
  • Subject Area: Social Studies
  • Cybersecurity Concept:
    • Integrity
  • Computer Science Domains:
    • Networks and The Internet
  • Computer Science Principles:
    • Collaborating Around Computing
  • Materials:
  • Considerations:
    • They will need a list of materials which can either be a print out of the hand outs or the teacher can present the entire lesson all digitally.

Lesson Plan

Overview

Honesty and Integrity are valuable and necessary skills to flourish in various environments, including higher education, the workplace and personal and civic life. This lesson is designed to help students understand, evaluate and apply skills of integrity. Furthermore, students will connect psychological theories to these transferable skills in order to help them navigate situations where honesty and integrity are required in their future environments, such as college or work.

PRE/POST-TEST

What is right and wrong is determined by what is punishable. Moral action is essentially the avoidance of punishment.

OBJECTIVES

To learn how to use the internet as a resource when doing research for school. While at the same time learn what not to do when doing research for assignments. As well as learn the affects if dishonest when turning in assignments.

CATCH/HOOK

I will be presenting a PowerPoint about the numbers and facts of students and even celebrities caught cheating on assignments.

ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS

Honesty and Integrity are valuable and necessary skills to flourish in various environments, including higher education, the workplace and personal and civic life. This lesson is designed to help students understand, evaluate and apply skills of integrity. Furthermore, students will connect psychological theories to these transferable skills in order to help them navigate situations where honesty and integrity are required in their future environments, such as college or work.

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REVIEW

Have a teacher led discussion about applications of Kohlberg’s theories and the value of integrity in the workplace and educational areas. For example, use reflection questions from the article “Cheating & Honesty”.

STANDARDS

Domain: Development and Learning Standard Area: Development Content Standard 2: Theories of lifespan development 2.2 Discuss theories of moral development Content Standard 6: Adolescence 6.2 Describe the development of reasoning and morality FL