Second Grade Curriculum Resources

Standard of Learning

2.5 The student will demonstrate ways to communicate consideration and respect for the health of individuals in the community. Key concepts/skills include:

the impact of verbal and nonverbal aggressive behaviors;
the effects of personal health decisions on other individuals.

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Understanding the Standard

The student will understand how to effectively handle verbal and nonverbal aggressive behaviors.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

The student will:

define consideration. (thinking about other people and their feelings)
define verbal. (words)
define non-verbal. (body actions)
describe aggressive. (forceful, physical)
define impact. (the effect on something)
describe a bully. (when a stronger, more powerful person hurts or frightens a smaller or weaker person deliberately and often repeatedly)
identify how to stop bullying.
determine ways to stay safe from bullies.
identify their feelings about aggressive behavior towards themselves and others.
list ways to treat other people with consideration and respect.

Sample Lessons

Al's Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices
Grades preK-3
Resiliency-based early childhood curriculum to develop personal, social, & emotional skills. Includes expressing feelings appropriately, using kind words, caring about others, self-control, independent thinking, accepting differences, making friends, solving problems, coping, making safe & healthy choices, substance abuse prevention. 46 interactive lessons plus booster lessons.
Sponsor: Wingspan LLC
Contact: http://www.wingspanworks.com

Ideas: "Getting Along"
Grade(s) K-2
In this unit, The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss sets the stage for examining how friends solve problems and get along on the playground. Students then poll their peers to find the biggest problem on the playground, graph their results, and set out to find solutions.
http://ideas.wisconsin.edu/ideas_resource.cfm
Free

Ideas: "Teaching Decision-Making Skills"
Grade(s) K-3
In this lesson students read Bill Cosby's book, "The Meanest Thing to Say." From this book students then explore and practice methods of decision-making with various activities including role playing.
http://ideas.wisconsin.edu/ideas_resource.cfm
Free

Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies (PATHS)
Grades K-6
Model program to promote emotional & social competencies and reduce aggression and acting out. Includes emotional literacy, self-control, social competence, positive peer relations, and interpersonal problem-solving skills.
Sponsor: Pennsylvania State University and Channing Bete Company
Contact: http://www.preventionscience.com
Cost

Social Emotional Learning Lesson
Grade(s) K-2 This lesson is designed for students in Kindergarten through Second grade to problem solve what to do so everyone feels included. While doing this they will learn how to manage anger and frustration.
http://www.dist102.k12.il.us/internal/SELWebPg/COP3RecessQn.htm
Free
Grade(s) 2-3 This lesson is designated for second through third graders learning about using positive ways to solve problems.
http://www.dist102.k12.il.us/internal/SELWebPg/COP5ChalkBxKid.htm
Free

Instructional Resources

Blueprints for Violence Prevention, the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence - http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/
Bully Free Classroom. Allan L. Beane, Free Spirit Publishing Inc. 217 Fifth Avenue North Suite 200 Minneapolis, MN 55401-1299 ISBN 1-57542-05406
Bullying Resources compiled by the California Department of Education - http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/ss/se/bullyres.asp
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence - http://www.colorado.edu/cspv
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control - http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc
Character Education Lesson Plans
Children's Safety Network - National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource - http://www.childrensafetynetwork.org
Emotional Development – http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/ (health & fitness k-2)
Kansas Bullying Prevention Program, Statewide Bullying Campaign - http://www.kbpp.org/
National Bullying Prevention Campaign Webcast - http://www.mchcom.com/archivedWebcastDetail.asp?aeid=250
National Crime Prevention Council - http://www.ncpc.org
National Youth Gang Center - http://www.iir.com/nygc/maininfo.htm
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center (NYVPRC) - http://www.safeyouth.org
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org
Olweus Bullying Prevention Program - nationally recognized model program to reduce opportunities and rewards for bullying - http://www.clemson.edu/olweus/
Partnership Against Violence Network - http://www.pavnet.org
Prevention Pathways Online Courses, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention: http://pathwayscourses.samhsa.gov/bully/bully_intro_pg1.htm
PREVENT, Preventing Violence Through Education Network and Technical Assistance, University of North Carolina - http://www.prevent.unc.edu/
Stop Bullying Now! Campaign, Human Resources And Services Administration - http://www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov
Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) - http://www.saddonline.com
U.S. Department of Education, Safe & Drug-Free Schools Program - http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SDFS/
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Criminal Justice Reference Service - http://www.ncjrs.org
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org
Youth Violence Fact Sheet, Center for Disease Control and Prevention - http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/yvfacts.htm
Virginia Best Practices in School-Based Violence Prevention, Virginia Department of Health - http://www.preventviolenceva.org
Virginia Center for School Safety - http://www.virginiaschoolsafety.com
Virginia Department of Education, Safe & Drug-Free Schools Program - http://www.safeanddrugfreeva.org
Virginia Youth Violence Project, University of Virginia - http://youthviolence.edschool.virginia.edu/

Assessment Ideas

The student will:

describe verbal and nonverbal aggressive behaviors.
role-play ways to stay safe from bullies.

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