Standard A: Recognize the feelings and perspectives of others.
Students in elementary school learn to recognize that other may experience situations differently from themselves. Students use listening skills to identify the feelings and perspectives of others.Students express feelings and perspectives in a variety of ways.
Blabberize is a website that allows students to take any photo, either uploaded or found with a search, and record audio. The website then edits the photo’s mouth to “move” while repeating the recorded audio. Students can record dialog from a story for a specific character using tone and emphasis to add feelings, save the recording. Fellow classmates can listen/watch the saved files and identify the perspectives and feelings of the characters, with the added comedy of the animations.
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Sock Puppets lets users create their own lip-synced videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-sync to the users voice. Students can create a dialog between puppets to role play conversations or paraphrase what characters have said in the story. Maybe how to or how not to handle social situations with friends.
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Middle school and high school students can learn skills to analyze how one's behaviors may affect others and predict other's feelings in a variety of situations. Use conversation skills to understand other's feelings and perspectives. Students can demonstrate how to express understanding of those who hold different opinions and ways to express empathy for others.
Scratch is a coding application online (Scratch JR is on the iPad) that will allow students to create an interactive game for others to play where they are faced with decisions in the game. There are already many socially based game built by students 3rd through high school on the Scratch website. Many of these games are addressing issues of bullying, cyber-bullying, cheating, dating, socializing, social media...etc. Critiquing some of the games already built would make for a good lesson as well.
Standard B: Recognize individual and group similarities and differences.
Elementary students can describe the ways that people are similar and different. Students can describe positive qualities in others. Students can identify differences among various social and cultural groups and their contributions. Students can demonstrate how to work effectively with those who are different from oneself.
ClassTools website has a simple online Venn diagram that can help students compare and contrast themselves, behaviors, choices and cultures. This online tool offers a 2 and 3 part Venn. The creation can be saved as a webpage. The print option is only for premium members, but users can take a screen shot of the Venn and print it from another program, such as paint or Windows photo editor.
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Instant Classroom website has a Random Group Generator that gives educators a way to create groups for collaborative activities for everyday activities in the classroom. This supports students working with all students, students they are friends with and students they struggle to get along with. The best way to learn social emotional skills are to use social emotional skills in every situation, even the conflicts.
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Middle school and high school students can explain how individual, social and cultural differences may increase vulnerability to bullying and identify ways to address it. Students can analyze the effects of taking action to oppose bullying based on individual and group differences. Students need to become aware of stereotyping and prejudice, analyzing the origins and negative effects. Students can evaluate strategies for being respectful and advocating for the rights of others. Students become aware that their decisions can effect others and contribute to the common good.
There are many TED xTeen talks on Bullying and educators are encouraged to explore for more, but the link above is a particular young lady who saw a need and created a solution. In addition, she is from Naperville, IL. This video would be an excellent introduction to a unit for students to create Public Service Announcements with tools from the audio / video pages on this website.
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In Quandary, players must make difficult decisions in which there are no clear right or wrong answers but important consequences – to themselves, to others in the colony and to the planet. In their interactions with other settlers in the colony, players must consider facts, opinions and solutions, just like in real life.
Though the game’s setting is a futuristic colony, the genuinely tough situations that players encounter are translatable to the ones they are likely to face day-to-day. The skills players develop while playing Quandary – such as critical thinking, perspective-taking and decision-making – will help them recognize ethical issues and deal with ethical situations in their own lives. Quandary provides a framework for how to approach ethical decision-making without telling players what to think. |
Standard C: Use communication and social skills to interact effectively with others.
Elementary students can identify ways to work and play with others. Students can demonstrate appropriate social and classroom behaviors. Classes can describe approaches for making and keeping friends.
Read-Write-Think has created a “Trading Card” resource that is available online and as an app on both iOS and Android. Students can use this resource to create a card of either a fictional “friend” or themselves. They can include why they are friends, what they have done well as a friend. Students can create a friendship biography.
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The Animoto website allows educators to receive a free class account that allows 50 student accounts. Students can create videos to role play how to give complements or receive complements using photos. Animoto has stock photos, music or users can upload from google drive, computer, or any file source. There are apps so the production can be done all from an iPad as well. Completed movies can be emailed or exported for sharing with parents from the teacher's controlled account.
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Middle school and high school students can analyze ways to establish positive relationships. Demonstrate cooperation and teamwork to evaluate the effects of support to others. Students can evaluate communication and social skills in daily interactions with peers, teachers and families. Students can the skills to plan, implement, and evaluate participation in a group project.
Social media has become the communication standard for students over the age of 11 today. Having the connection to social media and having the ability to understand everything that can happen when using it is something that everyone needs to be educated on when they begin. CommonSense Media is the resource that brings together students, teachers and parents in their Digital Citizenship Curriculum. Every grade level has a scope and sequence of lessons and assessments, both digital and paper that teaches about social media and internet safety.
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All three of these social media platforms can be securely setup as a private group monitored by a staff member/parent coordinator for a school club or organization. This can be used for peer mentors, tutoring programs or even a school wide anti-bullying system. Remind even allows for all responses to be checked prior to releasing to all members so no “texts” go out to everyone without being vetted by staff or selected students. Sending positive messages, spirited messages or just reminders of choices in a comfortable way, peer to peer will have a much more meaningful impact on teamwork and communication.
Standard D: Demonstrate an ability to prevents, manage, and resolve interpersonal conflicts in constructive ways.
Elementary students can identify problems and conflicts commonly experienced by peers, learning approaches to resolving conflicts. Students can describe causes and consequences of conflicts.
GoNoodle is a website that gets students up and moving to characters on the screen dancing/moving with a purpose. The “calming” category has 26 activities that address compassion, being a good friend, frustration, patience, etc. This website appeals to K-8th grade students.It is a great way to take a break in a tense situation or when everyone just needs a brain break to be able to refocus in order to resolve conflicts.
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Edublogs website give student blogs to post journal topics and comment on other students’ work. This allows for peer-to-peer support and reflective comments. Using Edublogs allow educators to have account control over the blogs and see comments prior to posting and monitor who sees the blogs. Blog writing can also be connected to common core writing standards.
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Middle school and high school students can evaluate strategies for preventing and resolving interpersonal problems. Students develop skills to define unhealthy peer pressure and evaluate strategies for resisting it. Students practice problem solving skills to analyze conflict resolution and how it contributes to working within a group.
Venngage is a drag and drop platform to build Infographics. This tool can easily be used to create posters to show causes of conflicts and ways to resolve those conflicts. The website allows for many creative avenues with built in graphics and the ability to upload student created content as well. Statistical data can be used in some of the templates to show data gathered in surveys done by the students or gathered in research. **When signing up a “payment” field shows up. This can be skipped to keep just the “free” account. Look to the bottom of the field for the “Skip this step” button”
Weebly edu website builder is a free platform. EDUCATORS MAKE SURE SIGN UP is UNDER THE EDU PLATFORM. Educators can create an account and then create student website accounts. Students or groups of students can build websites connecting others to resources for dealing with conflict resolution, mediation resources and even manage a blog to help others with issues of conflict or stress. The builder site is completely “drag and drop” and has an abundance of tutorials available. Many training resources are also available on YouTube. Students can be assigned a page individually or be editors of an entire website.
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