KimLoudermilk

 = Dealing with Bullying & Harassment      =


 * **Grade Level and/or Subject: 6-8/Computer Skills & Guidance**
 * **Summary of Project: Strategies for dealing with bullying & harassment in online and offline environments.**
 * **Curriculum Framing Questions:**
 * **Essential Questions -** Am I My Neighbor’s Keeper?
 * **Unit Questions -**
 * How are communities created?
 *  Should we do what’s right even when no one is watching?
 * How do we manage peer pressure?
 * When do you ask for help?
 * **Content Questions -**
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">How do our choices affect others?
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">What makes a bully?
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Do bullies have feelings?
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">What is a community?
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Is it okay to pick on others?
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
 * **The project idea-real world connections, authenticity is that bullying and harassment is a major problem in our society and students need to know strategies to avoid becoming bullies and victims.**

<span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,48)">Visual Ranking
 * **The Visual Ranking Tool will be used to rank the tactics that students can use to deal with bullying.**

<span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,48)">Seeing Reason <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,48)">
 * **The Seeing Reason Tool will be used to look at the causes and effects of harassment.**
 * **The concern for this tool is that students will have a hard time following the cause-and-effect relationship.**

<span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,48)">Showing Evidence <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,48)"> Lesson Plan - Bullying & Harassing
 * **The Showing Evidence Tool will be used to make claims and support them with documented research.**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> **Students will use critical thinking skills to develop and to evaluate effective strategies for making our school a safe place.**
 * **The concerns for using the Showing Evidence Tool is the amount of time it would take for students to find the research.**