Shoplifting

Hope Wanko
Liberty Elementary School
Port Charlotte, Florida
89029

GRADE: 2-6 Specific Learning Disabilities Students

OBJECTIVE: The students will demonstrate their knowledge that shoplifting is a crime and choose a socially positive course of action.

MATERIAL: Attached sheet of shoplifting situations

PROCEDURE:

1. Review visit of guest speaker, manager of Wal-Mart

2. Review security system of Wal-Mart

3. Review consequences applied to shoplifters

4. Present situations involving shoplifting (attached sheet )

5. Present and then discuss each situation. Encourage students to explain what they would do in each instance.

6. Lead discussion so that students understand the consequences of each action they suggest.

7. Take a poll to discover the majority course of action students should take in each situation.

8. Reinforce the following concepts during lesson:

a. Laws are necessary, reasonable, and constant.
b. We all have a responsibility to our community.
c. Negative effects of shoplifting: increased costs to store, consumers, and community. FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES:

1. Students write a play using one of shoplifting situations and act out various endings.

2. Students will use puppets to play act:

a. a family meeting after shoplifter is caught .
b. friends talking to shoplifter after the incident. 3. Students write a shoplifting situation story. (These can be discussed at another class meeting with class deciding on solutions.)

4. Visit to Wal-Mart

5. Design "No Shoplifting" posters

6. Math lesson on extra cost per item caused by shoplifting.

SITUATION 1: Three second graders enter Wal-Mart and play around the toy department. Some HotWheels cars were out of the package. One boy put 4 in his pocket. His friends did not see it. After they had left the store, he gave each friend a car and kept 2 for himself. You are his friend, you want the car, you know he took it without paying. What do you do?

SITUATION 2: Three sixth graders enter Wal-Mart chewing bubble gum. They go to the clothing department and start to horse around. While picking through the racks they blow large bubbles with their gum. They decide to have a big bubble contest. While this is going on, one of the bubbles bursts and splatters on a clothes rack. They look at the mess, giggle, and run to the shoe department. You are with a friend and see the whole scene. You know the three from school, but are not friends. What do you do?

SITUATION 3: Three fourth graders enter Wal-Mart right after school. They're going to the snack bar because they didn't like the school lunch. They bought hot dogs and drinks, and spent all their money. They were still hungry. One says, "Let's get cookies in the snack aisle. We already paid Wal-Mart for food, so what if we take more? If the hot dogs were bigger we wouldn't still be hungry. So we deserve their cookies for free." What do you say?

SITUATION 4: Three fifth graders entered Wal-Mart checking out the "Guess" jeans. Your friend wanted a pair of "Guess" jeans but only had enough money for regular Jeans. "I deserve the best, and besides, a big company like Wal-Mart has plenty of money - so I'll just put it on sale." He went into the dressing room and crossed out the regular price and wrote 50% in green marker. He came out smiling and showed you the tag. "This isn't shoplifting because I'm paying for them." He walks to the cashier. What do you do?

SITUATION 5: You are with your friend checking out the tapes when you see an adult slip one into his shirt. What do you do?