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Bullying

Grade 4:

STATE GOAL 3:                       CAS B        CSF 2,3

STATE GOAL 5:                            CAS A       CSF 2,5

Unit Prerequisites

·        Students need to be able to read and compose documents at a 4^th grade level.

·         Students need to be able to understand the basics of a play and the vocabulary that goes with it.

·        Students need to know the organizational details of working cooperatively.

·        Students will have the basic skills needed for researching.

Task:  

You have been selected by Miss Collins’ professor at Indiana University to help him teach his class about violence in schools, specifically bullying.  Mr. Whedon is particularly interested in how forming relationships helps young people change their behavior from the negative to the positive.  

He has 20 students in his class who are currently trying to come up with lessons that they can use in their classrooms when they become teachers. 

Mr. Whedon wants you to create a presentation for the teachers.  He wants you to write a short play that shows how forming relationships helps to change behavior. The play will be videotaped and sent to Mr. Whedon as your help with his project.

The professor is very excited to see the work that you have created and has sent a letter to you that outlines the information that he is requesting.

Access:

·        Explore information about relationships.         

·        Survey the students from ours and other classes about relationships.

·        Interview teachers about students and what relationships the teachers may see that the students need to develop.

 Interpret:

·        Organize the information from the surveys and interviews.

·        Contrast what the students surveys said with the teachers interviews.

·        Determine what relationships the students appear to be missing.

 Produce:

·        Generate a graph showing the results of what the surveys and interviews said.

·        Determine your audience for the presentation that you will create.

·        Develop a short play that gives the reasons for violent behavior and how forming relationships can help stop that behavior.

 Communicate: 

·        Discuss your project with the other students in the class.

·        Explain to them your reasoning for the different parts of your project and why you selected to put them in your project.

·        Share your final projects with Mr. Whedon and his class via videotape.

 Evaluate:

·        Critique the projects created in our class by using the peer assessment-grading sheet.

·        Improve any part of your project that you feel does not meet your expectations. 

·        Judge whether or not this project has helped you with creating better relationships both within and outside of your class.

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