Instructional+Activity

**Bullying Lesson Plan** **Third-Fifth Grade**

**Purpose**
The lesson plan on bullying will teach third-fifth grade students the skills needed to understand bullying. The information on bullying taught in this lesson will support reading and writing standards from the Georgia Performance Standards and character education. There will be a culminating activity at the end of the lesson that will be used as an assessment to evaluate the students’ understanding of bullying. The culminating activity (assessment) will involve groups role playing situations that involve bullying. They will include a solution to the problem in the role play situation. The groups will create a story board and then make a video of their role play situation on bullying. The video and story board will be like the one used at the beginning of the bullying lesson. The groups will be provided with a rubric that will be used to grade their video project on bullying.
 * Note-This lesson plan will take three to four days to complete.

**Target Audience**
The target audience who will learn about bullying is third-fifth grade students.

**Objectives**
After completing the lesson on bullying, students will
 * Understand what bullying is
 * Know what a bully is and what they do
 * Learn what they can do to protect themselves from a bully
 * Understand working cooperatively in groups
 * Demonstrate their knowledge of bullying
 * Create their own video with information learned about bullying

**Georgia Performance Standards**
a. Reads a variety of texts for information and pleasure. b. Makes predictions from text content. c. Generates questions before, during, and after reading. i. Makes connections between texts and/or personal experiences. j. Identifies and infers main idea and supporting details.
 * ELA3R3 The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade-level text. The student**

a. Captures a reader’s interest by setting a purpose and developing a point of view. b. Begins to select a focus and an organizational pattern based on purpose, genre, expectations, audience, and length. c. Writes text of a length appropriate to address the topic or tell the story. d. Uses organizational patterns for conveying information (e.g., chronological order, cause and effect, similarity and difference, questions and answers). e. Begins to use appropriate structures to ensure coherence (e.g., transition words and phrases, bullets, subheadings, numbering). f. Begins to use specific sensory details (e.g., strong verbs, adjectives) to enhance descriptive effect. g. Begins to develop characters through action and dialogue. h. Begins to use descriptive adjectives and verbs to communicate setting, character, and plot. i. Begins to include relevant examples, facts, anecdotes, and details appropriate to the audience.
 * ELA3W1 The student demonstrates competency in the writing process. The student**

a. Adapts oral language to fit the situation by following the rules of conversation with peers and adults. b. Recalls, interprets, and summarizes information presented orally. c. Uses oral language for different purposes: to inform, persuade, or entertain.
 * ELA3LSV1 The student uses oral and visual strategies to communicate. The student**

**Character Education**
**Topic****:** **Respect for Others**
 * Standard : ** Altruism: concern for and motivation to act for the welfare of others.
 * 11.1 ** Civility and cheerfulness: courtesy and politeness in action of speech.
 * 11.2 ** Compassion, kindness and generosity: concern for suffering or distress of others and response to their feeling and needs.
 * 11.3 ** Courtesy and cooperation: recognition of mutual interdependence with others resulting in polite treatment and respect for them

** Materials **

 * Bullying video created in Movie Maker
 * Story board used to plan movie maker video on bullying
 * Computer
 * Projector
 * Book- __The Berenstain Bears and the Bully__ by Stan & Jan Berenstain
 * Posters with definitions about bullying and rules that tell what to do if bullied
 * Story board template
 * pencils
 * Rubric for group video project
 * Video camera

** Step By Step Procedures **

 * 1) Show the class the video about bullying and explain that students their age are in the video to teach about bullying. The video is intended to be used as the hook to grab the attention of the learners for the lesson on bullying.
 * 2) Show the class a KWL chart (attached-Appendix A). Complete the K and W sections and explain that the L section will be completed at the end of the lesson on bullying
 * 3) Read the story, __The Berenstain Bears and the Bully__ orally to the class. Discuss parts of the book and ask questions while reading the story orally to the class. After reading the book, discuss how the bullying problem was solved in the story. Share what could be done in bullying situations.
 * 4) Complete the L section of the KWL chart as a group. Discuss what was learned about bullying orally. Think of different bullying situations that could occur and talk about the situations orally and think of solutions for handling the situations.

** Culminating Activity/ Assessment **

 * 1) The teacher will demonstrate how the story board for the video on bullying was created. Then the teacher will demonstrate how to create a video using a video camera. Next the teacher will create a sample movie in Movie Maker.
 * 2) Students will be divided into five groups of four to five students per group and given the rubric for creating a story board and video on bullying.
 * 3) Groups will be given blank story board templates (Attached- Appendix B) and pencils to write a draft story for their video.
 * 4) Students will be given a rubric as a guide for expectations of the storyboard and video (Attached- Appendix C). Groups will work cooperatively on a story board.
 * 5) Groups will use the video camera to film their role play about bullying, using the story board as a guide. Students will create a movie using their story board as a guide in Movie Maker. The students will save the movie on a Flash Drive.
 * 6) Each group will share their video about bullying with the class.
 * 7) Feedback will be provided to students, using the rubric.


 * Appendix A**
 * Bullying **



**Appendix B**

**Sample Story board** Please use the example provided below to help you create a story board for the role play activity. The blank story board for you to use is below the example story board. Please create the story board before trying to video tape and make the movie in MovieMaker. **(list the slide number in this column)** ||  **Text** **(Write what you will say in the video for each slide in this column)** ||  **Image** **(Draw a picture of what will be video taped in this column)** ||  **Animation** **(In movie maker, you will be able to choose how you want the video to show on the screen. Write that in this column)** ||  **Sound** **(List what music or other sounds might be on the video using this column)** ||
 * **Slide #**
 * Slide Number One || We are here to teach you about bullying. ||  || Fade in and out || Song- Lean on Me ||
 * Slide Number Two || Here is a list of things you can do if you are bullied by someone and you are alone. ||  || Slide in diagonally || No music-video taped converstaion ||

Appendix B continued Blank Story board for student use **(list the slide number in this column)** ||  **Text** **(Write what you will say in the video for each slide in this column)** ||  **Image** **(Draw a picture of what will be video taped in this column)** ||||  **Animation** **(In movie maker, you will be able to choose how you want the video to show on the screen. Write that in this column)** ||  **Sound** **(List what music or other sounds might be on the video using this column)** || Appendix C  Rubric For Video
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