Anti-Bullying STEAM Curriculum

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 values 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 no 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? This book is the product on 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. The story "In the Shade of an Old Tree" and the activities that go with it were practiced by Michelle as a preschool, kindergarten and elementary school facilitator of The Man and The Living World Museum in The National Park of Ramat-Gan. Michelle Korenfeld is an Amazon author, lifelong creativity practitioner, 21st century learning curriculum developer, facilitator, painter and poet. Michelle is driven to nurture curiosity in children's hearts and minds. She is the director of Raising Creative Thinkers, whose blog helps teachers, educators, parents and grandparents step up 21st century learning. People come to her workshops in order to raise creative thinkers and find out they have raised themselves as such. Using the 5 E's as a success routine, people find creative problem solving accessible and simple.Michelle's STEAM resources are based on 20 years of experience integrating art and literature with nature, science and environment. Raising Creative Thinkers' books and strategy are based on a humanistic and caring, social constructivism approach. They are designed to foster 21st century skills like imagination, flexibility, communication. collaboration, and innovation.