General Information: BrainPOP Jr. Anti-Bullying Website

This website provides students with a video about appropriate responses to bullying, quizzes about responding to bullying situations at varying levels, anti-bullying games, virtual drawing opportunities, anti-bullying jokes, cartoons, and other media. The website reads aloud all of the words, which makes it appropriate for developing readers in K-2 grades. This website’s colorful cartoon layout, accessibility, and engaging activities make it appealing for students in K-2 grades. For those reasons, this is the best website to introduce this aspect of developing healthy relationships for the primary grade levels.

Core Integration: Literacy Anti-Bullying Lesson Plan

• The lesson plan, linked above, addresses many of the Common Core State Standards speaking and listening standards for grades K-3, listed below.
• The lesson begins with students defining the word “bully,” using a familiar word-wall technique. That technique is a GLAD strategy that is commonly used to define new vocabulary. Incorporating content words from the health topic that students are studying on the word wall is a great way to integrate health content within the literacy block.
• Then, the students engage in speaking and listening activities by following the prompts given by the website’s “Talk About It” section. By following agreed upon rules of discussion, asking peers questions, linking their comments to their peers’ comments, telling relevant stories, and producing complete sentences in this discussion, students will be approaching all of the CCSS speaking and listening standards.
• Students will then watch the bullying cartoon movie on the website and engage in a discussion to add ideas to their initial ideas. The idea-generating technique of adding new ideas to initial ideas is frequently used in science curricula, so adding new ideas about bullying to their initial ideas could tie into a science strategy.
• Finally, students will practice what they’ve learned with the discussion and video in the website’s game scenarios. After they practice the scenarios, they will be able to discuss their successful anti-bullying, healthy relationship strategies.

Standards:

NHES:

• NHES 1: Core Concepts: Identify the benefits of healthy peer relationships
  • HBO 1: Establish and maintain healthy relationships
• NHES 1: Core Concepts: Explain why it is wrong to tease or bully others based on gender identity or roles
  • HBO 7: Treat others with courtesy and respect without regard to sexual status 
• NHES 4: Interpersonal Communication: Demonstrate how to effectively communicate needs, wants, and feelings in healthy ways to promote healthy family and peer relationships.
• NHES 4: Interpersonal Communication: Demonstrate how to effectively communicate care and concern for others to promote healthy family and peer relationships.
  • Source for all above standards: NHES Sexual Health PDF
• MEH5.2.3: Explain the potential positive and negative outcomes from decisions related to mental and emotional health (e.g. dealing with interpersonal conflict, managing anger)
• MEH5.2.4: Describe when help is needed and when it is not needed to make a mentally and emotionally healthy decision (e.g. dealing with interpersonal conflict, managing anger)
• MEH8.2.2: Demonstrate how to encourage peers to make healthy mental and emotional health chocies.
  • Source for all above standards: NHES Mental and Emotional Health PDF

CCSS:

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.1.1
  Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.1.3
  Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.3
  Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.4
  Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.1
  Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.3
  Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.

Hyperlinks: CCSS Speaking and Listening, Additional Lesson Ideas About Healthy Relationships, BrainPOP Jr Main Website, BrainPOP Healthy Relationships (topics besides bullying)