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Friends Fairness

Lesson Plan

Friends Fairness Lesson Plan

Students will learn to recognize and prevent unfair treatment among peers by playing a quick fairness-identification game and reflecting on kind actions.

Early social-emotional skills development fosters empathy and inclusion. Teaching fairness in kindergarten builds a positive classroom community and reduces discrimination from day one.

Audience

Kindergarten

Time

5 minutes

Approach

Interactive game plus reflection

Materials

Fairness Spotting Cards, Kindness Tokens, and Friends Fairness Game Guide

Prep

Prepare Materials

2 minutes

Step 1

Warm-Up

1 minute

  • Gather students in a circle.
  • Ask: “What does it mean to be fair?” and listen to a few responses.
  • Introduce fairness as treating friends kindly and equally.

Step 2

Game Activity

3 minutes

  • Show each scenario card from Fairness Spotting Cards.
  • Invite students to place a Kindness Token on cards showing fair behavior.
  • Briefly discuss why each chosen scenario is fair and how it helps friends.

Step 3

Reflection

1 minute

  • Ask each child to name one fair action they can do today.
  • When they act fairly later, they’ll add a Kindness Token to our class kindness jar.
  • Praise their ideas and reinforce the importance of fairness.
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Game

Friends Fairness Game Guide

Objective: Students will identify fair and unfair peer behaviors and practice empathy by recognizing kind and equal actions.
Audience: Kindergarten
Time: 3 minutes

Materials

Setup (1 minute)

  1. Spread all Fairness Spotting Cards face-down in the center of your circle.
  2. Give each child one Kindness Token to hold.

How to Play (2 minutes)

  1. Invite one student to flip over a scenario card and show it to the class.
  2. Read the scenario aloud (see “Scenario Cards” below).
  3. Ask: “Is this fair or unfair?”
    • If the behavior is fair, students place their Kindness Token on the card.
    • If it’s unfair, students keep their token in hand.
  4. Briefly discuss: “Why is this fair/unfair? What could we do to make it fair?”
  5. Collect tokens after each round so everyone starts fresh for the next card.

Scenario Cards

  1. Two children share a toy car so both friends can play.
  2. A child pushes a friend aside to play with the toy alone.
  3. A student waits patiently for their turn on the slide.
  4. Someone takes another friend’s crayon without asking.
  5. A child helps pick up blocks that a friend accidentally knocked over.
  6. One friend says, “You can’t play with us,” to someone else.

Tips for Teachers

  • Use simple language and point to the pictures as you read.
  • Reinforce that “fair” means being kind and equal to everyone.
  • Encourage students to suggest one thing we can do next time to make an unfair scenario fair.

After the Game:
Collect all Kindness Tokens. During the Reflection step in your lesson, students will add tokens to the class kindness jar when they practice a fair action later in the day.

Have fun spotting fairness!

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