Unit

Policy Decisions: Cell Phone Use at School – Unit Overview

Grade Level: 6-12

Length: 60+ minutes

DE Domain: SD VAR

The Structuring Decisions domain teaches processes and skills that can improve our ability to reach decisions that work best for us in both the short and long term. Students will use a decision-making process to create or revise a cell phone policy for the school community and to explore how policy decisions are made.

This unit was created by 2021-2022 Decision Education Fellow, Jennifer Cerny, a High School Humanities teacher in Culver, Indiana. We thank Jennifer for her hard work, insight, and expertise in developing this decision-making unit. The Alliance for Decision Education has modified parts of the unit.

  • Students will identify and apply the steps of a decision-making process.
  • Students will develop and propose a cell phone policy for their school community.
  • Students will defend their argument coherently and with evidence.
  • Framing
  • Clarifying Values
  • Generating Options
  • Gathering Information
  • Predicting
  • Reflection

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