Building Belonging Chain Reaction¶
Specification¶
The full specification below is extracted from Chapter 4: Friendship, Uniqueness, and Belonging.
Type: workflow
**sim-id:** building-belonging-chain-reaction<br/>
**Library:** Mermaid<br/>
**Status:** Specified
Bloom Taxonomy: Understand (L2)
Bloom Taxonomy Verb: explain, summarize, infer
Learning objective: Students explain how healthy peer traits, kindness, and valuing uniqueness work together, through caring relationships, to build a classroom where everyone belongs.
Purpose: Show a simple, positive chain from individual kind actions to a whole classroom feeling of belonging
Visual style: Simple vertical flowchart with rounded boxes and an arrow chain, warm colors, ending in a bright "Everyone Belongs" node
Steps:
1. Start: "Healthy Peer Traits" — hover text: "Listening, sharing, taking turns, and telling the truth with a peer."
2. Process: "Kindness" — hover text: "Choosing words and actions that help someone else feel good, safe, or included."
3. Process: "Valuing Uniqueness" — hover text: "Appreciating what makes each classmate different instead of expecting everyone to be the same."
4. Process: "Caring Relationships" — hover text: "Ongoing connections built on trust, respect, and support between classmates and with trusted adults."
5. End: "Everyone Belongs" — hover text: "A classroom where every person feels welcomed, valued, and safe being themselves."
Every node includes a click handler opening an infobox with the hover text described above (Mermaid `click` directive on each node).
Color coding:
- Soft blue: Healthy Peer Traits
- Soft green: Kindness
- Soft purple: Valuing Uniqueness
- Soft orange: Caring Relationships
- Gold: Everyone Belongs (end state)
Implementation: Mermaid flowchart with `click NodeId call showInfo("text")` directives on all five nodes, each opening an infobox with the corresponding hover text