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Bullying Prevention in the Michigan Model for
Health®
Kindergarten-Grade 6 |
Grades 7-8 |
Grades 9-12 Print
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Bullying prevention in the 7-8
Michigan Model for Health®:
Two R's for Stopping Assault &
Preventing Violence Module.
Please Note: This module is currently in revision and these
objectives may change for the 2013-14 school year. Please consider this in your
planning process and
contact the Center if you have questions.
| Grade | Objectives | Lessons |
| 7-8 | The Wisdom to Know the Difference Between Healthy and Harmful Relationships: Students describe characteristics of healthy and harmful relationships. They identify personal characteristics that make them positive friends. | Lesson 1 |
| 7-8 | Showing Respect and Acting Responsibly: Students describe respectful and disrespectful, verbal, nonverbal, and physical behaviors between people. They identify and communicate personal boundaries to others. | Lesson 2 |
| 7-8 | Showing Respect and Acting Responsibly When in Conflict Situations: Students practice assertive communication of personal boundaries to others. They identify reasons conflicts might turn to violence. | Lesson 3 |
| 7-8 | When Conflict Resolution Is Tough: Students practice empathy, listening and assertive communication skills. They practice anger management and responding to others' anger. | Lesson 4 |
| 7-8 | Keep Practicing: Students practice recognizing intimidation, such as an accusatory or angry tone of voice, a pointed finger, angry facial expression and aggressive motions and movements. | Lesson 7 |
| 7-8 | When Trying to Resolve Conflicts is Not a Good Idea: Students recognize intimidating and bullying behaviors. They practice skills by writing scenarios on how to handle intimidation and bullying situations by getting help from an adult, avoiding the bully, and staying with a group of friends. Students learn to seek help from an adult if they witness bullying. | Lesson 8 |
| 7-8 | Just Teasing OR Sexual Harassment?: Students learn that sexual harassment is a very serious and illegal form of bullying. Students watch and discuss a video on sexual harassment and how it affects people. They practice skills for dealing with sexual harassment and how to document and report incidents. | Lesson 9 |
| 7-8 | Safety First: Students learn how to identify trouble and avoid potentially dangerous situations. They review refusal skills and identify safe ways to respond if violence occurs. Students write safety tips to stay out of potentially violent situations. | Lesson 10 |
| 7-8 | Planning Ahead for Healthy Relationships--Part I and Part II: Students define violence within a dating relationship and summarize warning signs of unhealthy relationships. They discuss how abusive relationships develop, describe ways to stay out of danger, and practice skills to avoid or escape a potentially violent dating situations. The Laws governing sexual conduct are explained. | Lesson
11 Lesson 12 |
| 7-8 | Getting Help: A Sign of Strength: Students describe situations when help is needed and identify where and how help can be accessed. Students discuss the importance of peers getting help for each other. | Lesson 13 |
| Family Involvement | This
module promotes family, school and community partnerships: * Family-School meetings on relationships and bullying (4 sessions) * Informational articles for use in school newsletters on topics, such as relationships, bullying, and violence (12 articles) |
"Home-School Partnership" section |
Kindergarten-Grade 6 | Grades 7-8 | Grades 9-12
Bullying Prevention in the 9-12
Michigan Model for Health®:
Skills for Health and Life
| Important Note: Skills for Health and Life, begins with a unit which introduces all of the skills used throughout the entire curriculum. To teach the specific lessons below, without first teaching “Skills: A Strong Foundation” (Unit 1), would expect students to use skills to which they have not yet been introduced. The instruction of Unit 1 is essential to teaching all other specific content units in this curriculum. | ||
| Grade | Objectives | Lessons |
| 9-12 | What Teens Need to Know About Stress: Students explore stress management strategies and how they can be useful when managing anger. Students develop short- and long-term stress management goals. |
Social and Emotional Health Lesson 3 |
| 9-12 | Stress and Depression: Students learn to differentiate between sadness and depression, describe the warning signs, risk and protective factors for depression and suicide as well as how to locate and analyze the validity of resources related to depression and suicide prevention. |
Social and Emotional Health Lesson 4 |
| 9-12 | Helping Self and Others: Students learn the difference between empathy and sympathy, how to develop empathy and describe the impact of showing empathy on another person. Students analyze social pressures from telling an adult about someone who may hurt or kill him or herself. Student demonstrate how to seek help for self or others. |
Social and Emotional Health Lesson 5 |
| 9-12 | Relationships: Hiking the Peaks and Valleys: Building on an understanding of relationships, the skills required for positive relationships, and the causes of relationship pain, students evaluate conflict situations which situations or conflicts are better to manage than resolve. Students demonstrate through practice the ability to use resolution skills and assess their personal ability to resolve conflicts. |
Social and Emotional Health Lesson 6 |
| 9-12 | Relationships: Healthy or Unhealthy: Students learn to recognize the characteristics of positive and negative relationships, identify ways to maintain healthy and end unhealthy relationships and assess their personal ability to demonstrate the behaviors of healthy friendships. |
Social and Emotional Health Lesson 7 |
| 9-12 | Abuse, Part 1: Bullying and Harassment: Students define and describe bullying, harassment, and sexual harassment as well as the laws regarding each of these, and understand the effects on individuals and communities. They explore the power of bystanders and apply skills and strategies for avoiding and dealing with bullying and harassment or exploitation, including when using the internet. |
Social and Emotional Health |
| 9-12 | Abuse, Part 2: Dating Abuse: Students learn to assess the characteristics of hypothetical relationships for the warning signs of a harmful or abusive relationship. They also learn and apply skills and strategies for dealing with an abusive relationship. They share this understanding with their peers through the development of media campaigns. |
Social and Emotional Health Lesson 9 |
| 9-12 | Getting and Giving Help: Students learn to recognize the characteristics of situations that are dangerous, and those that must be reported to authorities or other trusted adults. They apply strategies to access help for themselves and for others. |
Social and Emotional Health Lesson 10 |
| 9-12 | Can Violence Be Prevented? Students examine their peer group’s opinions on the topic of violence and explore how interpersonal conflicts can be solved without violence. Students describe the kinds of conflict situations students face and the skills to address them. |
Safety Lesson 3 |
| 9-12 | Skills to Resolve Conflicts: Students examine the usefulness of the seven health skills and interpersonal communication skills in resolving or managing conflicts. They apply strategies and skills to resolve and manage potentially dangerous situations as well as ways to stay safer in potentially violent situations. |
Safety |
| 9-12 | Maximizing Safety Options When Violence Threatens: Students apply strategies to avoid and report dangerous situations and recognize characteristics of those situations that must be reported. They analyze the role of friends and peers in the escalation of conflicts and promotion of violence and how to stay safe in a violent situation as well as applying strategies to get help for self and others. |
Safety Lesson 5 |
| 9-12 | Electronic Aggression: Students learn to recognize electronic aggression or cyberbullying as a type of harassment and apply strategies to avoid and report dangerous situations. They also learn the legal consequences for cyberbullying behaviors. |
Safety Lesson 6 |
| 9-12 | So What? Students explain the effects of violence on individuals, families, communities, and our nation and emphasize the importance of getting and giving help. Students analyze the social pressure to refrain from telling on others or reaching out for help from others. Students apply strategies to access and get help for self and for others. |
Safety
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| 9-12 | Navigating the Land Mines of Our Teenage Years-Parts 1, 2 and 3: Students apply decision-making and problem-solving steps to generate alternative solutions regarding situations that could place one’s health or safety at risk, and predict the potential short- and long-term effects of each alternative. Working in small groups, students research, develop and present to their peers their solution(s) to a critical safety issue impacting young people, including violence. |
Safety |
Kindergarten-Grade 6 | Grades 7-8 | Grades 9-12
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