Names of Group Member(s): _Julia Dusserre, Petah Kelsey, Erik

Manning________
Date: ___4/14/15_____________________________________________________

EDUG 514: Curriculum Unit Planning

Unit Planning Form

Grade:

Unit
Theme:

Bullying

Essential
Understandings
(or Long-Term
Goals):

Students will be able to identify and stop bullying,

prevent bullying, and educate the community on ways
to resolve conflict.

Guiding
Questions:

1. What is bullying?
2. How does bullying make me feel as a
victim or witness?
3. How do I identify and stop bullying (As a
victim or witness)?
4. How do I prevent bullying at my school?
5. How do I educate my school community
about bullying?

Objectives:

1.) After students partake in a collaborative

activity, by creating kindness dolls, about the

consequences of our words and actions, when

asked a series of questions students will be able
to explain what bullying is and how to prevent it.
(Blooms Taxonomy Level: Analyze, Create)
(Marzano: Reinforcing Effort and Providing
Recognition)
2.) After students have listened to the story
entitled The Brand New Kid, they will examine
the text by answering questions in writing, and
create a poster to bring anti-bullying awareness
to the school community.
(Blooms Taxonomy: Analyzing, Creating)
(Marzano Strategy: Questions, cues, and
advance organizers)
3.) Students will compile data from real-world
situations in a survey, analyze the data with
reflection questions, and construct a bar graph.
(Blooms Taxonomy: Analyzing, Creating)
(Marzano: Nonlinguistic Representations)

Assessments:
1. Students will relate what they learned
about bullying through the paper doll activity
and compose a quick-write reflecting feelings in
their journal with the guidance of question
prompts.
(DOK Level: Skill/Concept, Strategic
Thinking)

2. After I have finished reading the book,

students will answer questions on a worksheet.
For the worksheet, students will be tasked with
answering such questions as, apply key
information from the text, assess the bullying

conflicts in the text and answer questions.

(DOK Level: Skill/Concept, Strategic
Thinking)

3. Students will fill out a bully survey and

compile the data. Students will create a graph
that represents data collected from a class
survey on bullying.
(DOK Level: Skill/Concept)

Instructional
Activities:

Health
Kindness Doll: Students will create a kindness doll
in their likeness. In their groups, students will
exchange their kindness dolls. When students are
prompted by the teacher, they will tear, cut and mark
the kindness dolls, representing bullying. At the end,
students will repair their own kindness dolls with tape
and glue.
Journal Reflection
After the Kindness doll activity, students will reflect on
the activity and how it made them feel. Students will
be asked to make journal entries that expresses their
feelings. Students will be given prompts to help
inspire their writing.

English
Creating a Poster
After students have listened to the read aloud of The
Brand New Kid, students will create an anti-bullying
posters.
Worksheet
After students have listened to the read aloud of The

Brand New Kid, students will answer comprehension

questions on a worksheet.
Math
Survey
In groups, students will fill out a survey on bullying. A
group leader will tally the results of the group.
Graph
Students will graph the results from the class survey.

Web (Theme, Subjects, Standards, Objectives):

Theme: Anti-Bully Awareness
Health:
-Health Promotion (Grade 2) 8.1.M: Object appropriately to teasing of peers
that is based on

personal characteristics.

-Mental, Emotional, and Social Health -1.1.M Describe a variety of emotions.

2.C.1: Exchanging information and ideas with others through oral
collaborative conversations on a range of social and academic topics.
Objective: Students will be able to evaluate their emotions related to
bullying and the consequences of their words and actions, when asked a
series of questions students will be able to explain what bullying is and how
to prevent it.

English
-CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.8
Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided
sources to answer a question.

-ELD 2.C.10 Writing literacy and informational texts to present, describe, and
explain ideas and information, using appropriate technology.
Objective: After students have listened to the story entitled The Brand New
Kid, they will examine the text by answering questions in writing, and create
a poster to bring anti-bullying awareness to the school community.

Math
-CCSS.Math.Content.2.MD.D.10: Draw a picture and bar graph (with single
unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple
put-together, take apart, and compare problems using information presented
in the bar graph.
Objective: Students will compile data from real-world situations in a survey,
analyze the data with reflection questions, and construct a bar graph.