I stumbles upon some interesting information online, on the Discovery website. I found lesson plans, child friendly statistics, word banks, etc. Of course, this was all in English, but this information gave me great ideas, which I then created in French. You will find my files further down in this post.
I started by introducing the term Intimidation, which mean "bullying" in French. We brain stormed words and situations that come to mind when we think of bullying. I even shared examples of how I was bullied when I was young... "Kids called me Rabbit Face because of my awful teeth." Things like that. The students were surprisingly sympathetic. "Rabbit Face" is quite funny to me now, but I thought that maybe a couple of them would giggle. I was shocked and VERY impressed by how seriously they took in all of this information.
My small class of 16 was then split up into two groups: the VICTIME (victim) group and the INTIMIDATEUR (bully) group. Each group was given an anchor chart where they made idea webs or lists of words that come to mind, based on their given word.
Once the students completed their own word banks, it was time to read some stats about bullying... I purposely found older statistics, because I then wanted the students to reflect on whether or not things have changed since the date of the information. Here is the document containing the stats. It was translated from an english website.
We did a shared reading on the SMART Board of all the statistics, and for some reason... I didn't expect this... The students were shocked, emotional and upset by all of the information. From that moment, I think I really had them hooked and engaged, which is something I find difficult at times, when it comes to these kinds of topics.
During our next Health class, each student completed a survey of 6 questions about bullying, what they've experienced, what they've noticed about the teachers dealing with it, etc. Afterwards, it was Math intergration time. I seem to have some Math fans in my class, so I figured that doing some French Math could be fun! I cut up the surveys into strips and put the answers to the different questions in piles. Each group of students was in charge of a question. It was their responsibility to graph out the information discovered in the answers. Here's how they turned out!!!
Our graphs are currently posted on the wall in the school hallway. We have created our own class statistics on bullying!
Our next step in the bullying unit to distinguish different acts of bullying, recognizing how severe the acts are, and finding solutions and ways to resolve different conflicts. Here's a file called "Continuum de violence" that I created (inspired by an English document I found online) to get things started!
Enjoy :)
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