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Digital Storytelling Lesson – Bullying

 **Grade Level:** 6th – 8th Grade ID Self Contained  **Objectives**: The students will be able to:
 * Subject Area: ** Social Skills/Character Education
 * 1) Review previous lessons
 * 2) List the reasons people bully others
 * 3) Describe ways to deal with aggressive behaviors
 * 4) Watch the movie “The Ant Bully”
 *  Standards: **
 * 1) Create written work, oral and auditory presentations, and visual presentations that are designed for a specific purpose (SC Dept. of Education, 2008)
 * 2) Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity (NETS-T, 2008)
 * 3) Interact, collaborate and publish with peers employing a variety of digital environment and media (NETS-S, 2007)


 * Description **
 *  of Lesson: **Students will review the previous lesson and scenarios. They will discuss and list the reasons why people bully others. They will also describe ways to deal with aggressive behaviors.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Procedures: <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Students will volunteer and summarize the previous lessons. Students and teacher will discuss why people bully others. According to M. F. Radwin (Radwin, 2012), the reasons some people become bullies are:


 * 1) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Children who are mistreated began to **feel insecure and inadequate**. Bullying provides them with a great deal of relief.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A person becomes a bully in order to **feel worthy**. By devaluing the target, the bully feels superior.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Bullies are **insecure**. By bullying others they create an illusion of being in **control**.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Bullies do not know how to obtain positive attention. Bullying others is the only way they can obtain **attention for themselves**.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Teacher will list these reason on chart paper and display in class.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Teacher and students will brainstorm ways to deal with aggressive behaviors. Teacher will submit these suggestions to the school’s web site. Some suggestions are:


 * 1) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Ignore the bully. Walk by him/her if you can. Pretend that you didn’t hear what he/she is saying.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Don’t let the bully know that you are upset. The goal of the bully is to upset you.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Tell a teacher or someone you trust about being bullied.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Make a joke out of what the bully is saying.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Stand up for yourself. This will help you gain respect from others. Practice what you would say to a bully in a firm, confident voice.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Tell the bully to stop and walk away.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Don’t bully back.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Students will come up with a class plan on how to deal with bullies. This plan displayed in the classroom to remind all that bullying is not tolerated.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Students will watch the movie “The Ant Bully”. This movie is about a ten year old boy named Lucas who is bullied by the neighborhood bully and his gang. Lucas takes his anger out on an ant hill in his yard. He is shrunk to insect size.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> After they watch the movie, they will take the online quiz of the Ant Bully at []

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> The students will break into their cooperative groups. Each group will pick one of the scenarios from the previous lesson and role play how they would deal with the bullying issue using the listed suggestions. They will write and perform a short play about how they will handle being bullied. Teacher will video their performance and submit them to be played on the school’s web site. (Permission to video the students will be obtained before students are videoed.

**References**

PBS Kids (2005). Bullies, who are they?<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">c It’s My Life, http://pbskids.org/itsmylife <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14px;"> Retrieved

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14px;"> from <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/friends/bullies/article2.html

International Society for Technology in Education. (2008). //National education standards//

//for teachers (NETS-T//). Retrieved from [] International Society for Technology in Education. (2007). //National education standard// //for students (NETS-S).// Retrieved from [] Radwin, M.F. (2012, June 19). Re: Reason why people bully others. [Blog message]. Retrieved from http://www.2knowmyself.com/reasons_why_people_bully_others South Carolina Department of Education (2008). //South Carolina academic standards for ELA.// Retrieved from [|http://ed.sc.gov/agency/pr/standards-and] - curriculum/documents/StateBoardApprovedFinalMay14.pdf