Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.1E Grade 4 CPI 3

 

Standard: 2.1 - Wellness

 

Strand: E -  Safety

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 3 - The student will explain that abuse can take several forms, including verbal, emotional, sexual, and physical, and identify ways to get help should abuse be suspected.

 

Grade: 4

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        WHO ARE YOU? - Use puppets or stuffed animals to introduce three characters that represent the ways people handle conflicts:

Mouse: Meek, weak, doesn’t stick up for his/her own ideas
Monster: Bully, pushes ideas on others
Me: A balance between a monster and a mouse

Model how each character might handle the same conflict situation. Allow student volunteers to participate in the demonstration. Then divide the class into small groups, and give each group a situation. Students determine if the character in the situation is responding as a mouse, monster, or “me”. If the mouse or monster is in control, the group rewrites the situation to handle the conflict more appropriately. Groups present the original role-play and then the rewrite. As the students present their skits, they discuss the skills needed to manage conflict in a healthy way.

 

·        FINDING HEALTH RESOURCES - Students select a book about a health topic. Older students, acting as cross-age teachers, read the book with the students and discuss the content. Each student writes a summary of the book, focusing on what he/she learned about the health topic. Variation: Students share the book with a parent, guardian, or other adult family member. The student and his/her adult partner complete a teacher-designed worksheet or develop a poem or illustration related to the book.

 

·        CREATE A SONG -  Students choose a popular or classic song and rewrite the lyrics to present an anti-violence message. Other students may choose to write a story about a young person confronted with a problem and how he/she solved it and then put the story to music. Students share songs and stories and discuss the types of conflicts and strategies used in the creations.