Anti-Bullying
Title:
Anti-Bullying STEAM Curriculum
About the book in short:
Turn classrooms into pro-social environments!
The Anti-Bullying STEAM Curriculum helps educators build a safe environment, supporting critical and creative thinking, communication and collaboration.
More about the book:
The Anti-Bullying STEAM Curriculum is a self-confidence for kids book. It helps educators with building a safe environment. Drawn from a STEAM story about the food-chain the kids construct mutuality. For the children this lesson is best learned from nature, where eco-systems exist in balance.
Turn anti-bullying education into a curious delight arising curiosity using the original story, activities, coloring pages and prompts in this STEAM fun educational book. Speak with the kids in a language they relate to. Talk about the animals in the story to embrace the kids’ vulnerabilities. Then guide the children to internalize the message of being sure of themselves while interacting in caring collaborative environments. Empower those that need to become assertive, and balance those that tend toward aggression. Invite the kids into an adventure of discovery for an anti-bullying education that lasts. Help children gain self-confidence in themselves and with others, ignited by the animal world.
Identifying with the story “In the Shade of an Old Tree” the children are invited to provide their own ideas on how to become better friends. Coloring the coloring pages and drawing inspired by the fun prompts, they embrace a shield against bullying ignited by their own advice. Engage students with experiential and music activities and teach them without noticing about the food chain. Nurture curiosity, introducing terms like diversity and relativity. Instill the value of protecting nature. Converse and lead a team group activity arising from the question: Why does a mouse’s heart beat about 500 times a minute while the elephant’s heart beats only about 30 times?
Why are horns backwards? Two deer males may attack each other. But without any intention to harm. Animals do not bully. They have conflicts to resolve, but their first priorities are safety, survival and continuity of their species. Carnivores eat herbivores, but not out of cruelty. This is simply their food. The elephant, which is an herbivore like the little mouse, isn’t threatened by lions. Is the elephant part of the food chain at all?
The book and author:
Michelle Korenfeld – PD facilitator, author, painter, poet, lifelong educator and creativity researcher for the past 20 years, dean's excellence in education leadership, administration and policy MA, brings a fresh breeze to the school bag, with creativity and innovation throughout the learning rainbow. Michelle wrote 10 teaching-learning books - writing, drawing and painting. She believes that much of the social-emotional problems derive from aggression based on stifled creativity. To free such creative thinking, we need to construct creative learning opportunities for self-expression that will lead to excellence, through self-directedness that comes from teachers believing in children and youth's strengths.
The story “In the Shade of an Old Tree” and the activities that go with it were practiced by Michelle as a kindergarten and elementary school facilitator of The Man and The Living World Museum. This book is a product of Michelle Korenfeld’s lifelong creative education practice. It is based on Michelle’s teaching at The Dr. Erica Landau Institute for the Advancement of Youth to Excellence and Creativity, and on conversations with Dr. Moshe Rishpon who established The Clore Garden of Science and The Science Oriented Youth Department in The Weizmann Institute. This unit is a pioneer program in science education and a leader of that field worldwide. Nature mentor is Dorit Wolenitz, Chair of ICOM NATHIST -The International Committee for Museums and Collections of Natural History of the International Council of Museums.