N.B.A.

Zone Lessons and Activities

School Year 2014-2015
GRADE 6
Integrated with Olweus and P.B.I.S
This is a guide on what topics should be discussed. Please feel free to be creative and supplement the
activities/lessons if you feel comfortable. Be sure to focus on the dynamic, specific needs and
concerns of the students in your group. The N.B.A. Zone committee members are more than willing to
consult with you if needed throughout the year.

Date
Thursday, August
21
Friday, August 22

Lesson
PBIS 3 Rs

Ice Breaker: Name Game

Lesson:
-Indroduce the concept of class meetings and define bullying.
-Print out the First Class Meeting Outline and Script from the Teacher
Guide CD-ROM
-Review the bullying reporting process

Friday, August 29
Team Building: Dream Clouds
Lesson: Focus on rule one. We will not bully others.
Supplement (optional): Choose from Supplement List*or create your
own
Friday, September
5

Materials

Team Building: Stranded on an Island

Lesson: Focus on anti-bullying rule two. We will help students who are
bullied.

-Paper and Pencils

-Chapter 6 on CD-ROM, print file
11
-N.B.A. Zone Anti-Bullying Rules
poster
-Our Class Meeting Ground Rules
poster (Chapter 4 on CD-ROM,
print file 9)
-Pencils
-Chapter 6 on CD-ROM, file 12
-N.B.A. Zone Anti-Bullying Rules
poster
-Chapter 6 on CD-ROM, file 13
-N.B.A. Zone Anti-Bullying Rules
poster

Supplement (optional): Choose from Supplement List* or create your

own
Friday, September
12

Friday, September
19

Team Building: Snowballs

Lesson: Focus on anti-bullying rule three. We will include students who
are left out.
Supplement (optional): Choose from Supplement List* or create your
own
Team Building: Story Time
Lesson: Focus on anti-bullying rule four. If we know that someone is
being bullied, we will tell and adult at school or at home.
Supplement (optional): Choose from Supplement List*or create your
own

Friday, September
26

Team Building: n/a

Lesson: Cafeteria Challenges

Friday, October 3
Friday, November
14

Annual Olweus Survey

Lesson:
-What are the different types of bullying behavior?
-Discuss these questions: What if we bully others? How can we recognize
and chage our behavior so that we arent bullying others?
-Use the Bully Circle to explain how all students are involved in bullying
even if they dont do anything
-Clearly describe the different rules in a bullying situation
Supplement (optional): Choose from Supplement List* or create your
own
Identifying Feelings: Handling Anger in Healthy Ways

Friday, December
12
Friday, January 9

Peer Relationships: Positive and Negative Peer Pressure

Friday, February 13

Communication: To Report or Not to Report?

Friday, March 13

Respecting Differences and Promoting Acceptance: Understanding

Stereotypes, Prejudice,

-paper, pencils, timer (one)

-Chapter 6 on CD-ROM, file 14
-N.B.A. Zone Anti-Bullying Rules
poster

-paper, art supplies, magazines

to cut up (optional) and glue
(optional)
-Chapter 6 on CD-ROM, file 15
-N.B.A. Zone Anti-Bullying Rules
poster

-Pages 95-97 in Class Meetings

That Matter book
-Tape
-Types of Bullying Behaviors
handout
-Page 24 and 25 in Olweus
Teacher Guide
-Chapeter 6 on CD-ROM, file 18
Bully Circle Exercise.

Pages 36-39 in Class Meetings

That Matter book
Pages 109-111 in Class
Meetings That Matter book
Pages 69-71 in Class Meetings
That Matter book
Pages 153-155 and pg. 11 in
Class Meetings That Matter

book

Friday, April 10

Peer Relationships: Friends- Respect- Who Gets it?

Friday, May 8
Friday, May 15

Plan end of the year celebration and Transition (walk through)

Closure (review Dream Clouds)/Celebration

Index cards/paper
Pages 123-125 in Class
Meetings That Matter book

*Supplement List and master copies are located in the blue portable file box next to the mailboxes in the faculty room.
*Master copies of all lessons are also located in the blue portable file box next to the mailboxes in the faculty room.