Students will be introduced to community authority figures who make and enforce rules. Supplemental resources for this lesson can be found as separate entries in the collection. They are identified as "Rules and Authority Figures: Name of Resource."

Students are introduced to authority figures in the community who make and enforce rules. They come to understand that, just like home, the community has rules that provide order, security, and safety.

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Rules and Authority Figures." It is a set of cards that depicts and identifies various authority figures in the community.

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Rules and Authority Figures." It is a slide presentation that provides images of common authority figures students might encounter in their community.

In this activity, with classmates, students create a list of suggested classroom rules. As a class, students will select three or four of the most important, general rules and then use art supplies to create a scroll to display the rules.

In this lesson, students read Kellogg's The Island of Skog, discuss key components of a democratic government and will write three rules they believe the residents of the island should follow.

Students learn about the need for rules. They identify rules, classify rules, and vote on rules for their classroom. They also learn about the positive and negative consequences associated with following or not following rules and about and how these consequences affect individuals, as well as the classroom community.