Teen Suicide & Cyberbullying

During the last year, many news stories focused on the growing number of teen suicides that can be attributed to cyberbullying.

These stories draw attention to a growing problem that is accelerated by the increasing use of the Internet and social networking sites. Cyberbullying can be conducted 24 hours a day, seven days a week making the victim a perpetual target. The harassment can be anonymous and a single message posted online or sent to a mobile phone can spread to a wide audience. Hurtful or embarrassing messages or images can remain online indefinitely to damage the child's social life and friendships, and possibly their reputation.

American teens and their parents worry about safety on the Internet. The average teen knows someone their age that has been targeted by these intentionally destructive and hurtful electronic communications. Nearly a third of teens have been targets themselves. The recent suicide of Phoebe Prince and other teens by cyberbullying have made this a national issue and one that schools and parents can help to address.

When it comes to safety online, young people's main "knowledge gap" relates to "setting ground rules of what's acceptable behavior ... and how that technology may be used against them ... where they could be blackmailed or cyber-bullied," says Richard Harrison, lead mentor for the Safe and Secure Online program, which enlists online security experts to volunteer in schools.

ProQuest has created a BookCart learning activity to help your students learn more about this timely and presistent issue—"Cyberbullying and Teen Suicide."

BookCart learning activities save time and provide teachers with the flexibility to make inquiry-based learning activities at a variety of points in a course when it's appropriate.

Each Cart provides examples of essential questions that help students develop 21st Century critical thinking skills, student directions that guide the research process, an option for call numbers to related print resources, an optional quiz, 21st Century literacy standard, and ProQuest models for written reports and presentations. You won't find this combination of inquiry-based learning activity support in a single spot in any other K-12 database or resource.

• Logon to the eLibrary CE TEACHER EDITION.
• Click the BOOKCART ADMIN link at the top right of the Teacher Edition.
• Click the PROQUEST CARTS tab.
• Type "Cyberbullying and Teen Suicide" in the Search box.
• Click the COPY icon in the ACTIONS column to the right of this title.
• Click RETURN TO MY LOCAL CARTS.

This BookCart already includes all the information that a student needs to complete the assignment.

Educators may edit any of this information to tailor it to meet the needs of their students following these easy steps:

• Click the new BookCart Title; it will have the prefix "COPY OF."
• Delete "Copy of" and then type your first and last name in the AUTHOR boxes.
• Type your email address in the EMAIL box, or your initials as the required filler.
• Optional: edit the samples of ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS in the DESCRIPTION box.
• Optional: edit the STUDENT DIRECTIONS in the Description box.
• Scroll down and click SAVE.
• Click MY LOCAL CARTS tab to see your edited Cart, ready for your students to use.

You may also want to download our current complete listing of hundreds of ProQuest Carts collection.

The list is organized by curriculum area and the titles are in alphabetical order. Each Cart title is hyperlinked to the ProQuest collection, so that clicking it, while in the Teacher Edition, will give you a shortcut to copying it to your local collection.

Assign students to write a report of at least 150 words (or a PowerPoint presentation of at least seven slides) that cites at least three resources. Student should use the Essential Page on Cyberbullying listed in the pathfinder below. Students should address at least three of the following essential questions for critical thinking in their reports (you can substitute others):

• How can cyberbullying lead to suicide?
• Why do students cyberbully other students?
• Which students are most likely to suffer from cyberbullying and why?
• What are some successful strategies for coping with cyberbullying?
• What should schools do to help students prevent and cope with bullying?

Type "Cyberbullying" in the Search box > View Essential Page (full listing) content at top of results

Your students can use our custom ProQuest models for written and PowerPoint-style reports.

Teachers may be interested in a ProQuest flexible rubrics model for evaluating inquiry-based learning activities.

Educators may also wish to employ the Quizinator Web tool (free, but registration required) for creating a variety of printed resources, including short assessments.

Veterans Day is an annual national and state holiday venerating military veterans of all U.S. wars. It was originally called Armistice Day to celebrate the end of World War I. It is commemorated as Remembrance Day or Armistice Day in other part of the world. Veterans Day is celebrated on 11th November, the anniversary of the signing of Armistice that ended World War I.

Assign students to select one of the three authors who wrote about the horrors of war and then write a report of at least 150 words that cites at least three resources. Student should use the pathfinder below to find the best results and save time. Student should address the following essential questions for critical thinking (you may want to add or substitute others):

• What was the author's perspective on this war—positive or negative and why?
  
  
• How did this author's life experience contribute to the writing of the novel?
  
  
• What makes this novel unique and famous?

Type "War Novels" in the Search box > Select one of the three authors listed

Your students can use our custom ProQuest models for written and PowerPoint-style reports.

Teachers may be interested in a ProQuest flexible rubrics model for evaluating inquiry-based learning activities.

Educators may also wish to employ the Quizinator Web tool (free, but registration required) for creating a variety of printed resources, including short assessments.

Veterans Day is an annual American holiday and is also celebrated in other parts of the world as Remembrance Day or Armistice Day. In the U.S. it is a day that venerates the service of military veterans of all U.S. wars, alive and dead. Veterans Day is celebrated on 11th November, the anniversary of the signing of Armistice that ended World War I. The armistice was initially effective for 36 days, but was continually renewed until the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

Assign students to write a report of at least 150 words or a presentation of at least seven slides that cites at least three resources. Students should use the pathfinder listed below to save time searching and reinvesting it in more time for analysis, synthesis, and reporting.

Students should address the Document Based Question for critical thinking included at the bottom of the Results list for this Study Unit (you can add or substitute others):

"Explain the reasons why the United States joined the war against Germany in April 1917."

Click the Study Units tab > Type "World War I" in the Study Unit Title search box > Click "America during the First World War, 1914-1918"

Your students can use our custom ProQuest models for written and PowerPoint-style reports.

Teachers may be interested in a ProQuest flexible rubrics model for evaluating inquiry-based learning activities.

Educators may also wish to employ the Quizinator Web tool (free, but registration required) for creating a variety of printed resources, including short assessments.