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Ask the class:

• How much is enough pocket money?

• Should children have to earn their money?

• At what age do children learn the value of money?

Ask the class to consider the following situation:

You break one of your mum's special ornaments at home accidentally.

How would the class deal with this?

Extension activity
Kohlberg invented a step-by-step question and answer process for understanding dilemmas.

Plenary
Recap on the main teaching points and discuss the answers the students have written for each of the situations.

Teachers' Background

• A moral dilemma involves a situation in which there are only two courses of action.

• Each action requires performing an action that is morally wrong.

Plato's classic dilemma:

• A man borrows a weapon from his neighbour promising to return it at the lender's request.

• One day the lender, in a fit of rage, asks for the weapon back apparently with the intention to kill someone.

• The man is faced with a dilemma - if he keeps his promise, then he will be an accessory to a murder. If he refuses to hand over the weapon, then he violates his promise.

Turn this into an assembly

• Select some of the dilemmas given above or some of the situations described by Kohlberg.

• Ask for volunteers to role-play the situations.

• Put forward the arguments for each of the choices. It would be a good idea if selected students could do this.

• Discuss questions raised and put each situation to the vote.