🤝 Personal & Social Development · Empathy & Social Awareness
Different Lives and Experiences
Understand that people's lives and experiences can be very different from their own — that some children face challenges like disability, poverty, family difficulties, or being new to a country — and develop compassion rather than judgement
Typical age: 7–9 years
“If a new child joins your child's class who doesn't speak much English or whose family situation is very different, does your child show understanding and try to include them rather than avoiding them?”
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Needs first
- Seeing Someone Else's Point of View
Understanding different lives benefits from perspective-taking skills
- Vocabulary: social awareness
Understanding diverse lives requires vocabulary for compassion, fairness, and community
- Similarities & DifferencesREQUIRED
Understanding different lives builds on noticing similarities/differences