Who Gets It? Votes, Sharing, and Rules

Majority rule, sharing, authority, force, and personal characteristics.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 54

Here are more ways to decide who gets something.
Majority rule: everyone votes, and the choice with the most votes wins. The class votes on a game, and tag gets the most votes, so everyone plays tag.
Sharing: everyone gets a part, or takes turns. Four friends cut a pizza so each one gets two slices.
Authority: someone in charge decides. The coach decides who plays goalie.
Personal characteristics: something about you, like your age or height, decides. You must be 48 inches tall to ride the roller coaster.
Force: someone takes it by grabbing or pushing. That happens sometimes, but it is never fair, and it can hurt people. Good citizens don't use force.

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:

SS2E2 — Identify some ways in which goods and services are allocated (such as: price, majority rule, contests, force, sharing, lottery, authority, first-come-first-served, and personal characteristics).