Social Norm Or Personal Choice Sorter¶
Specification¶
The full specification below is extracted from Chapter 11: Health Influences and Information Literacy.
Type: infographic
**sim-id:** social-norm-or-personal-choice-sorter<br/>
**Library:** p5.js<br/>
**Status:** Specified
Bloom Taxonomy: Analyze (L4)
Bloom Taxonomy Verb: examine, distinguish, differentiate
Learning objective: Students distinguish between a health behavior driven mainly by an unspoken group/community norm versus one driven mainly by individual personal choice, examining ten realistic scenario cards.
Layout: A deck of 10 short scenario cards (e.g., "Almost everyone on the team stretches before practice because the coach always has, and nobody questions it" or "One student decided on their own to start packing a water bottle after reading about hydration") next to two labeled zones: "Mainly A Social Norm" and "Mainly A Personal Choice."
Interactive controls: Learner drags or clicks each card into the zone they judge it fits best; immediate feedback explains the reasoning, noting that many scenarios are a mix of both, and asks a short follow-up reflection question ("Is this norm helping or hurting the group's health?"). Running tally of cards sorted; "Reset" button reshuffles the deck.
Default parameters: Deck order randomized each session; no zone pre-selected.
Instructional Rationale: An Analyze-level objective requires learners to examine and differentiate between overlapping influences; a sorting task with explanatory feedback builds the habit of asking "is this just what everyone does, or did I choose this?" before evaluating a health behavior.
Implementation notes: p5.js. Responsive canvas that stacks the two zones vertically on narrow screens.