Lesson 3.B.
I Am Bugged By…
LESSON TYPE: Mandatory (YL, S)
SUPPLIES/EQUIPMENT:
v journals
STUDENT HANDOUTS:
v I Am Bugged By
v Writing Activity Sheet
STANDARD:
Students will analyze the impact of personal and group differences on the school setting.
Students will identify their pet peeves and explore strategies to manage them.
1. To start the activity you may want to focus the students’ attention by displaying a
number of items that relate to bugs: a can of bug spray, a cap or other piece of
clothing made from Lady Bug design fabric, a large plastic bug or a bug in a jar,
placard signs that read “Bug Off!” and “Don’t Bug Me!”
Ask the students what they think of when they hear the word “bug” or see a bug. Ask
them how they think we came to say that things that annoy us “bug” us.
MODULE 3:
ACTIVITIES:
I Can Be Different
DESCRIPTOR:
2. Share with the class that no matter how smoothly life goes for us, there are always
some things that are going to annoy or bug us. Certain situations, some events and
even some people really bug us. But sometimes it’s possible to think differently
about a situation so it no longer bugs us.
3. Allow students to share a few personal examples. (You might want to ask students
not to identify people by name.) Ask the students what can be done to deal with those
places, times and people who cannot be ignored and who are impossible to change.
Explain that identifying those things that bug us is one way of dealing with them. It
is also a way of finding out more about who we are. Listing these items gets them out
in the open. It can make us happier just to write them down! Who knows? When
others see our list, we may become de-bugged!
4. Distribute the “I Am Bugged By…” handout. Have students write in each box one
thing that bugs them and list the reason(s).
PROTEAM DREAMQUEST CURRICULUM
3-14