Lesson · Grade 2 · Career Education

Setting a Goal in Small Steps

  • Grade 2
  • Career Education
  • 54 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC2-CA-01

Kai wants to catch a ball and breaks that goal into three small steps on a staircase: hands ready, up close, and farther away. A teacher at school, a grown-up at home and a friend at the park nearby each help with one step, and once all three steps are checked off Kai reaches the goal, ending on "Set a goal, take small steps, and ask for help."

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

Kai has a goal: to catch a ball.

How can Kai reach this goal?

Transcript

What the lesson says

Kai has a goal: to catch a ball.

How can Kai reach this goal?

Kai breaks the goal into three small steps.

Step one: hands ready, out in front.

At school, a teacher shows Kai how.

Step two: catch a soft ball up close.

At home, a grown-up tosses it gently.

Step three: catch it from farther away.

Nearby at the park, a friend throws it.

One, two, three steps, and Kai reached the goal!

Kai got help at school, home and the park.

Set a goal, take small steps, and ask for help.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 2

Career Education, Career education: goal-setting strategiesBC2-CA-01

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The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.