Dawn Roberts

Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School

ELA

Fifth Grade

P.S. 92

 

STOP THE BULLIES BY STANDING UP

 

 

INTRODUCTION:

A bully is a person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable. Across the United States bullying has become an epidemic that is affecting our schools. This harmful impact is causing students to turn to suicide and/or participating in school shootings. Everyday more lives are being lost due to the act of bullying.

 

 

TASK:

You are now assigned the task of being the “Bully Detective”. You will formulate a plan that will change the trajectory of bullying in our schools. We will first try this out in our school to see how effective it is before we introduce it to other schools across the United States.

 

 

 

PROCESS:

You will complete the following six steps:

 

Use the 6-Step Public Policy format which you have already learned. Complete the handouts given to collect information for each step.

 

Students will work in groups of 6. Each group person would answer one of the steps and then present to the class what they learned

 

  1. Define the problem
  2. Gather evidence
  3. Identify causes
  4. Evaluate a policy
  5. Develop solutions
  6. Select the best solution

 

Go to the PPA and complete the worksheets:

  1. Identify and define the problem of bullying in schools in the United States. Use the worksheet found at this website:

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  1. Gather evidence for this problem using this article:

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  1. Identify the causes and effects of bullying in schools in the United States by using the worksheet found at the website: 

●       Click Here 

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  1. Use what you have learned from the New York Anti-Bullying Laws & Policies to create your own public policies that will address the social problem of bullying in schools in the United States.  Use the link to help you create your policies:

●       Click Here

  1. Use these resources to help develop a solution:

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  1. Use the solution that you think would be most effectiveness from your public policy solutions to solve the problem of bullying in schools in the United States

●       Click Here

 

In completion of the six steps, you will prepare your final 2-3 page report on bullying in the United States. Prepare to do an oral presentation before the school body.

 

 

RESOURCES:

Stop Bullying Gov

New York State Laws

Bully Prevention Training

American Society for the Positive Care of Children

Six Simple Solutions To Bullying

 

 

EVALUATION RUBRIC:

 

GRADE:

1

2

3

4

Oral Presentation

No knowledge of the uses of PPA .

Presents no data to support the proposed policy.

Little knowledge of the uses of PPA.

Presents several sources of data in a logical format to support the proposed policy.

Acceptable amount of knowledge Of the uses of PPA.

Presents several sources of data in a logical and organized format to support the proposed policy.

Superior knowledge of the uses of PPA.

Presents an exceptional amount of data to support the proposed policy.

Research

Links are not relevant to support the proposed policy.

Enough links but few support the proposed policy.

Many links that support the proposed policy.

All links support the proposed policy.

Report & Worksheets

 

Incomplete

Does not use the conventions of standard written English.

Weak usage of the conventions of Standard Written English.

Acceptable usage of the conventions of Standard Written English

Superior use of the conventions of Standard Written English

 

 

CONCLUSION:

By completing this PPA WebQuest, you have now learned how to identify bullying in schools in the United States and developed policies on how to stand up against it.  As a “Bully Detective”, you have recognized the causes of the problem, provided evidence, researched the current policies and created an intervention program.  As a result of this project, you have learned to create a school based bullying prevention program that will hopefully help to rectify the problem of bullying in this country.

 

 

ELA STANDARDS:

E3c- Prepare and deliver individual presentation.

E2a- Produce a report of information

E1c- Read and comprehend informational materials

E1d- Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of public documents

E1e- Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of functional documents

E3b- Participate in group meetings

E4a- Demonstrate an understanding of the rules of the English language in written and oral work