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Grades; 3-5
Respect [or insert your PBSIS motto] Bubbles
The purpose of this activity is to have students practice expressing the important ways your school-wide framework applies in the hallway. Students work together to develop a group thought bubbles that express examples, feelings, priorities that reflect your school-wide framework/motto.
Develop materials to implement the lesson
1. Develop visuals to compliment discussion of the expectations. Visuals should focus on students demonstrating / modeling the expectations and avoid using students to act out negative scenarios:
a. Video models of students explaining or showing how to do the videos.
i. Recruit high school students with an inertest in visual arts to assist with filming or editing video
b. Live role plays
c. PowerPoint using pictures of students demonstrating the expectations paired with text.
2. Develop mini scenarios, examples and review questions that reflect your school’s expectations and routines that you can use during check for understanding discussions. For example:
· It is time to line up to leave for recess – Table #5 show me what you would do
· Why do you think it is important that everyone walk on the right side of the hallway?
3. Each lesson has a community building activity that will need advanced preparation. Community building activities can occur along with the teaching portion of the lesson or as follow up to the lesson. The community building activity for this lesson is a Respect [or your Motto] Bubbles and needs to following advanced preparation:
· A variety of art supplies that encourage students to creatively express themselves (e.g., colored pencils, markers, magazines to cut out pictures, clip art, etc.)
· Enough large ‘callout bubbles or clouds’ so that each group can have 3-5 callouts to write on (see callout templates provided)
· Determine the number of groups and process for organizing the groups
1. Script option to introduce the activity: Today we have been learning about our [insert school motto/school wide expectations] in the cafeteria. These expectations are going to help you enjoy time in the cafeteria. Let’s work together as teams to have a little fun while we learn the expectations.
2. Divide students into cooperative groups. Each student gets a thought bubble.
a. Option 1: assign each group 1 of school-wide expectations (e.g. Respect ) and have the group members work on thought bubbles related specifically to that expectations
b. Option 2: although students are working in groups but members can decide individually what expectation their thought bubble will reflect.
3. Explain to students that they will use the ‘callouts’ to display an example of hallway behavior that is important to them. Students can write, draw, or use pictures (e.g., cut out of magazines) to convey a hallway expectation. Encourage students to be creative in developing their bubbles.
a. Make sure to emphasize the callout bubbles should reflect POSITIVE acts (Jose helped pick up Helena’s books) or expectation reminders (e.g., walk at all times) the walls in your school
b. Students can use the pictures or generate their own examples of what they ‘should’ do in the hallways (e.g., be friendly to other kids) but remind them to phrase their bubbles positively instead of negatively (i.e., don’t be mean to other kids)
4. Have students share their bubbles and they display in the hallway.
Sample Call Out Bubbles Using the School’s Pawprint theme
Minute to Win it Fun
Have the students put the tickets they earned during the lesson into a bin select 2-6 students to participate in minute to win it competitions. Visit http://www.nbc.com/minute-to-win-it/how-to or do a search on YouTube for video demonstrations for minute to win it ideas. Note: try out the minute to win it activities before doing them with students – sometimes they need a little bit of tweaking to get the set up right.
NJ PBSIS (2014). NJ PBSIS is sponsored by the New Jersey Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs in collaboration with The Boggs Center, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. NJ PBSIS is funded by IDEA, Part B. www.njpbs.org