Second Steps - Dinnertime Conversation
Second Steps – Dinnertime conversations plus integration of Bullying Program and Digital Literacy and Citizenship
Grade 3
Requirements
· Individual notebooks to record notes of conversations with family
· Second Steps curriculum and video
· Bullying Intervention Program
· 30 minutes discussion time per week
· Posts on the homework bulletin/individual webpages
****Second Steps Unit****
Unit 1 EMPATHY
Week 1 (Do before card 1) Empathy Training Overview Part 1
What are emotions? Make a bulleted list of all of the emotions you know or have experienced.
Week 2 (Cards 1 and 2) Empathy Training Overview Part 2
Pick two emotions from your list of emotions from Week one, and discuss what actions could cause those emotions?
****Bullying Unit****
Week 1 – Susan’s first bus ride Handout 1 – Page 47
· What are some examples of respectful behavior?
Week 2 – Making conversations and finding things in common Page 55
· Write 3 conversation starters so you can get to know someonebetter.
Week 3 – Joining In – Page 73
· Generate 2 responses to use when joining efforts do not work.
· Generate 2 ideas that students in a group can use to encourage others who want to join in.
****Second Steps Unit****
Week 3 (Card 3) Conflicting Feelings
Choose two emotions from your list that you have experienced at the same time but during one situation.
Week 4 (Card 4) – Active Listening
How do you show someone that you are listening to them?
Week 5 (Card 5)- Expressing Concern
How do show concern for others through your actions and words?
Week 6 ( Card 6) - Accepting Differences
Everyone is similar in some ways and different in others. Give an example of a time when someone was unkind or made fun of you because you were different?
****Bullying Unit ****
Weeks 4 – What is bullying? – Page 87
· Define bullying.
· Give one example of a case of bullying.
· How would you empathize with a bullied child?
Week 5 – Standing up for yourself by being assertive – Page 105
· Name one resistance skill you would use when dealing with negative peer pressure.
· Describe a situation you were in when it was difficult to keep calm.
Week 6 – Refusing to be bullied- Page 125
· Name 2 bullying behaviors
· List 2 assertive skills you would use to respond to bullying behavior.
Week 7 - Reporting bullying – Page 143
· Identify a situation when bullying should be reported immediately.
· What is the difference between tattling and reporting?
****SECOND STEPS UNIT****
UNIT 2 Impulse control and problem solving
Week 7 (Card 7) Part 1
What strategies do you use to calm down and stop and think?
Week 8 (Card 8) Part 2
Try out one of the strategies to help you keep calm and reflect whether it was successful or not.
I tried ………………………………………………………… and this is what happened…………………………………………………………………………….
***Bullying Unit****
Week 8 - What is a bystander? Page 161
· Define bystander
· How do you feel when you observe bullying?
· Describe an example of positive change for bystanders.
Week 9 - Bystanders can be part of the solution. Page 181
· List 2 steps for refusing to let others be bullied.
· Describe a bullying problem and then suggest 2 solutions to it
****Second Steps Unit****
Week 9 (Card 9) Making Conversations
List the ways you knew that the person you were talking to was actively engaged and listening to you?
Week 10 (Card 10) Dealing with peer pressure
When did you feel peer pressure?
What did they do to you?
How did you feel?
****Bullying Unit****
Week 10 – A Class Anti-Bullying Pledge – Page 197
· Create a colorful poster with the title “Making a Difference.”
Draw how you would make a difference to the bullying problem.
Week 11- Putting it all together – Page 209
· Design an end project to show what you have learned over this unit on bullying.
Examples:
A skit
A PowerPoint
A movie
A report
A game board
A puzzle
It is your choice and you may work with a partner or a small group.
Week 11 (Card 11) Resisting the impulse to steal
Discuss a time when you trusted someone and they let you down.
How did it make you feel about that person?
What did you handle the situation?
Week 12 (Card 12) Resisting the impulse to lie)
“Honesty is the best policy.”
Discuss a time when you werehonest.
How did you feel after you told the truth?
Did it have an effect on the other people involved in the dishonesty?
UNIT 3 ANGER MANAGEMENT
Week 13 (Card 13) Anger Management Skill Overview Part 1
Describe physical signs of anger that you have observed.
What causes these angry feelings?
Week 14 (Card 14) Anger Management Skill Overview Part 2
What strategies do you use to manage your anger?
Does this work for you or could you think of a better way to handle the situation?
****DIGITAL LITERACY AND CITIZENSHIP SKILLS ****
Lesson - Screen out the mean! Cyber bullying.
· Is bullying just face to face?
· Give 2 examples of what you think is cyber bullying.
· How would you deal with a cyber bully?
****Second Steps Unit****
Week 15 (Card 15) Dealing with Accusations
Discuss a time when you were falsely accused.
How did you feel?
How did you deal with the problem?
What was the outcome?
Week 16 Card 16) Dealing with disappointment
Discuss a time when you did not reach a goal you had set?
How did you feel?
What would you do differently now?
Week 17 (Card 17) Making a complaint
What steps did you use to deal with a complaint about an unhappy situation?
Week 18 (Card 18) Keeping Second Steps Skills Going
Write and illustrate a page for our class journal on Second Steps Skills on how you used these lessons to impact your life
a) At home
And or
b) At School
POST SECOND STEPS ACTIVITIES:
Posttest will be given again at the end of this unit and analyzed.
Post Second Steps writing assignment:
How have you changed your opinions and behavior toward others as a result of Second Steps/ Dinnertime Conversations?
