This Cyber Bullying Unit asks students to explore Tanith's relection and make connections about online harassment to thier own lives and experiences. Student practice taking a proactive approach to positive messaging and maintaining a safe online presence.
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Reflection:
Cyber Bullying by
Tanith Ramon-Ibarra
Tanith's One World Reflection sheds light on the prevalence of Cyber Bullying and the effects of being harassed online or through texting. She suggests how parents, teachers, and students can take steps to help kids protect themselves and maintain a positive online presence.
Cyber Bullying
Learning Activity:
English/Language Arts-Battling Bullying
English/Language Arts /
6th 7th 8th
/ 2-3 class periods (90-135 min)
S tudents will take a personal look at the issue of cyber bullying as it relates to their peer group. Through a practice of problem and resolution skills, students will create action steps for how they can be a part of affecting positive change to this social phenomenon.
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Learning Activity:
Social Studies-Understanding Cyber Bullying
Social Studies /
6th 7th 8th
/ 1-3 class periods (90-180 minutes)
Students will explore their own and their classmates’ experiences with cyber bullying and generate ways to respond to and prevent cyber bullying from occurring. They publish their findings to share with the school.
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Unit Resources
Previewing the Reflection:
A series of open-ended pre-reading questions designed to engage students, assess prior knowledge, and expose any pre-conceived ideas about the person or culture explored in the Reflection. Previewing the Experience questions are intended to be non-threatening and accessible to a range of students. Students are encouraged to answer honestly, and to discuss their answers with their classmates.
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Understanding the Reflection:
This resource is to be used during and after students read the Reflection. Included in it are a series of reading comprehension questions designed to check for student understanding of the Reflection. These questions formats include multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, short response, or other effective questioning strategies.
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Reviewing the Reflection:
This resource is to be used after students read the Reflection. It includes a series of post-reading questions designed to encourage student reflection and assess changes in students' perception and understanding of the cultural issues addressed in the unit through some deliberately repeated questions in the "Previewing the Experience" activity.
Reviewing the Reflection PDF:
Visualizing the Reflection:
This resource is to be used after students read the Reflection. Included are a series of questions designed to strengthen students' ability to interpret and analyze visual materials. The type of visual material used as the basis for the questions may include maps, graphs, charts, pictures, videos, and diagrams. While the introduction of the visual materials will increase student understanding of the issues raised by the Reflection, the questions are an opportunity for students to practice the increasingly important skill of visual comprehension and interpretation.
Culture Cube:
This resource can be used at any point within a unit. The Culture Cube allows students to think about and organize their research of any culture into eight major traits (social groups, government, history, language, daily life, economy, religion, and art). The Culture Cube can prepare students before reading a Reflection, or before doing unit resources and learning activities. Similarly, teachers can use the Culture Cube to wrap up or assess students’ knowledge after engaging in the other unit resources and learning activities. The Culture Cube can be used in isolation of or integrated with the larger One World Curriculum. Definitions and examples of each trait of culture are given to guide students. The Culture Cube requires students to go beyond the Reflection for their research, so teachers need to make available a number of different resources from which students might gather information, including, but not limited to: textbooks, websites, encyclopedias, reference books, reports and maps.
Reflection Response:
This resource should be used after the students read the Reflection. Students are presented with a list of questions intended to illicit a more personal response about the Reflection they have just read. After considering those questions, students compose a letter to the author of the Reflection with their thoughts, observations, questions and comments. Teachers should feel free to contact rachel@oneworldeducation.org if they would like to have their students' finished letters delivered to the One World Ambassador.
Cyber Bullying