Health Education - 3rd Grade
Strand 6: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (HD) Standard 3.HD.3:
Health Education - 3rd Grade
Strand 3: SAFETY AND DISEASE PREVENTION (SDP) Standard 3.SDP.2:
2 class periods of 30 minutes each
Students learn about bullying and describe what bullying looks and feels like. In contrast, they experience the feelings of being helpful and nice to peers when they need it.
O'Neill, Alexis. The Recess Queen. Scholastic Press, 2002. ISBN-13: 978-0439206372
Bullying happens when a person or a group, that is physically or verbally more powerful, persists in treating another person, or group, disrespectfully. Bullying is unwanted and unwelcomed behavior and can happen physically, verbally, through gesture, and in written form.
Vocabulary:
Anticipatory Set: Hand out to all students a piece of paper and ask them to crumple it up, stamp on it and really mess it up (but without ripping it). Then have them unfold it, smooth it out, look at how scarred it is now and have them say they are sorry to it. Even though the students apologized to it and tried to fix it, point out that the "scars" on the paper are still there and they will not go away no matter how much the students try to fix them. Then relate this to an incident where a child bullies another child (even if the first child apologizes to the other one, the scars will never go away). Discuss what kind of "scars" bullying leaves on someone.
Before you read the book, talk about being safe in school. Ask, what makes you feel safe at school? (i.e. having adults available for support, kids playing nicely, kids playing non-competitive games).
What is a bully?
Have you ever been bullied or seen someone else being bullied?
Today I am going to read a book called, The Recess Queen. Tell the class that the main character's name is Mean Jean the Recess Queen. Make predictions: Do you think Mean Jean might be a bully? Why?
After reading the book, ask what happened that helped Mean Jean change; what did Katie Sue do to make a difference in the way the other students felt about Mean Jean; what was Mean Jean's new name. Katie Sue's plan for dealing with a bully worked because most bullies really want to have friends, but don't know how to make friends, however, talking and playing with a bully does not always work.
Summarize story using 5 Finger summary: Somebody Wanted But So In the end.
Teach students three strategies for dealing with a bully: walk, talk, or tell. Discuss what each of these strategies means. You may want to teach the difference between tattling and telling.
List rules for recess. Then watch the video clip of Bad Recess example and discuss procedures. Use Behavior Stories to teach about different recess situations.
Discuss consequences for breaking the rules at recess. Working lunch, "watch" recess: observe appropriate recess behavior, specific game, activity or area, walking recess/walk the line, community service, loss of minutes of recess, loss of areas of the playground or activities, loss of other activities.
Generate a list of recess activities.
After reading each example above, discuss with the students the following: How would that make you feel? Is it bullying? What can someone do in that situation?
Divide students into groups of 6 to preform The Recess Queen Reader's Theater.
Reflection: Have students look at the piece of paper in front of them (from the intro) and reflect on the book or stories/pictures about bullying. Then ask them to describe possible emotions of the victims. Write answers on the board. Show the video Boy Bullied made by an eleven-year-old boy explaining how he felt when he was bullied, and what he decided to do about it. Ask students to describe or draw how bullying makes them feel and how helping others makes them feel.
Ask students to describe or draw how bullying makes them feel and how helping others makes them feel.
Make posters for the school about Bullying.
Watch episodes of Recess Stories and discuss.
Play Beat the Bully on PBSKids.
Other books: Alexander, Clair. Lucy and the Bully. Albert Whitman & Company, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0807547861
Lovell, Patty. Stand Tall, Molly Lou Mellon. Putnam Juvenile, 2001. ISBN-13: 978-0399234163
What is a bully?
How did students change as a result of this lesson?
Students demonstrate strategies to deal with bullying.
O'Neill, Alexis. The Recess Queen. Scholastic Press, 2002. ISBN-13: 978-0439206372