Comic books are visual literature. This simple cooperative group activity allows students to identify confrontational issues within their own school and then imagine solutions.
This activity will remind students that no one deserves to be bullied and that everyone has a responsibility to report unkind acts.
Discussion topics and writing themes that can be explored with the story Crocodile and Ghost Bat Have a Hullabaloo. This story and accompanying activities are excerpted from Teaching Tolerance’s curriculum, Rhinos and Raspberries, Tolerance Tales for the Early Grades.
In 1989 a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck San Francisco. Sixty-three people died. This year, a 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti. A month after the disaster the Haitian government estimates that more than 200,000 people died. Why the huge difference? In this lesson students will answer that question as they identify and explore connections between poverty and natural disasters.
Educator and author Mara Sapon-Shevin offers strategies and ideas to help students become allies -- people who stand with or for others.
This web-exclusive curriculum is proven to counteract gender bullying in the early grades.
This activity will remind students that no one deserves to be bullied and that everyone has a responsibility to report unkind acts.
This checklist provides suggestions for what kids can do when bullying occurs – written for students being bullied, students who witness bullying and the bullies themselves.
Links:
[1] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/cooperative-comics
[2] http://www.tolerance.org/category/classroom-resources/school-culture
[3] http://www.tolerance.org/category/anti-bias-domain/action
[4] http://www.tolerance.org/category/level/grades-3-5
[5] http://www.tolerance.org/category/level/grades-6-8
[6] http://www.tolerance.org/category/level/grades-9-12
[7] http://www.tolerance.org/category/subject/reading-and-language-arts
[8] http://www.tolerance.org/category/subject/social-studies
[9] http://www.tolerance.org/category/subject/arts
[10] http://www.tolerance.org/category/subject/ell-/-esl
[11] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/stand
[12] http://www.tolerance.org/category/classroom-resources/bullying
[13] http://www.tolerance.org/category/subject/math-and-technology
[14] http://www.tolerance.org/category/subject/science-and-health
[15] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/activity-ideas-use-crocodile-and-ghost-bat-have-hullabaloo
[16] http://www.tolerance.org/category/anti-bias-domain/justice
[17] http://www.tolerance.org/category/level/grades-1-2
[18] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/poverty-and-natural-disasters-exploring-connections
[19] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/allies-discussion-activity
[20] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/peer-exclusion
[21] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/bullies-act-out
[22] http://www.tolerance.org/category/level/pre-k-k
[23] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/bullying-tips-students