Activity 2

 

It is recess. Everyone is out on the playing fields, including the teacher. You have to go to the toilet. On the way to the toilet, you pass your class and notice that there is someone in the room. You stop and peek in out of curiosity. Just as you do, you see one of your best friends reach into another person’s desk and take something out of it. You quickly move past the door before you are seen. Just before the lunch bell rings, the students whose desk you saw your friend reach into, walks up to the teacher. A moment later the teacher announces that this student’s entire pencil case with pencils, pens and lunch money, in it has been stolen, what do you do?

 

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Identify the problem:

The student’s entire pencil case

with lunch money has been stolen.

 

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Specify objectives and the decision criteria: Return the lost belongings to the owner (student).

 

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Develop Alternatives Alternatives::

Convince my bestfrie Convince bestfriend nd to tell the truth truth about what what happened. Steal the entire case lunch money from your bestfriend whichpencil he/she he/she waswith taken away and return it back to the owner (student). Tell the truth truth without without hurting my bestfriend bestfriend by secretly telling it to the teacher and not to spread it to the entire class. Report directly to the teacher about what happened without my bestfri bestfriend end kno knowin wing. g.

 

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 Analyze and compare alternatives: alternatives: Moral Self Conscience

Reputation

Relation to your bestfriend

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Alternatives

Result

 

Select the best alternative: ⋆

Convince my bestfriend Convince bestfriend to tell the truth truth about about what happened.

Implement the best alternative: Monitor results to ensure the desired results are achieved.