Middle School Resource

Role-Play—Ethics

In this activity, students will understand how attitudes and choices affect success at school and at the workplace. They will:

• Role-play various situations that involve ethical decisions or actions.
• Cheating on a test
• Taking credit for another’s work
• Gossiping about fellow students
• Forging a parent’s signature
• Staying homesick when you’re not
• Making fun of a classmate who is different
• Sneaking “freebies” to families and friends
• Discuss the ethics involved in each of the situations and possible results of those actions.
• Identify similar actions in the workplace and discuss how those actions could impact one’s success on the job.
• Write a one-page summary of their reactions to the role-play situations and discussions.

Related NY State Academic Standards: W.5.1, W.5.4, SL.5.1, and more!

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