6UAE SS 1.2.9 - Equality

6UAE SS 1.2.9 -

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Aspects of Equality among People

​Learning Outcome

​Describe some issues that might arise while studying equality. In other words, the difference between equal opportunities and equal outcomes.

​Equality

• ​What word can you see in the word equality?

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• ​Do you see the word 'equal'?

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• ​What do you think this means in terms of people?

Multiple Choice

What does equality mean?

• Being treated as equally as other people

• Being good at working out maths problems

• Believing you are better than other people

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Open Ended

Write the meaning of equality in YOUR own words. Give an example of this if it helps explain the meaning.

​Fairness

​What does it mean if something is fair?

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​Have you ever been in a situation where you thought that something was not fair?

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​What did you do?

Multiple Choice

Pick the answer that best shows what fairness means.

• My friend included me, but not my other friend, in the game

• My friend shared the candy with me equally

• My friend did not wait her turn to speak when the teacher was explaining the lesson

Open Ended

Write your won example of fairness here.

​Justice

​Justice means that there should be fair treatment for all.

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​It also means that you must be morally fair too. So sometimes punishment is a fair thing if you do something wrong.

​The Monkey and the Scale

What are the best ways to ​resolve a dispute (in other words, settle an argument)?

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​What happens when we fail to reach equality?

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​Read the story of 'The Monkey and the Scale' and then answer the questions that follow.

Open Ended

What happened between the monkey and the cats?

Open Ended

How could the cats have resolved their dispute?

Open Ended

Rewrite some of the story so that the cats could have come to an agreement.