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Danbury Schools: Middle Schools: Teacher Zone: Teen Issues
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Adjusting to Middle School
Nice
article for parents: http://www.parentingteens.com/education8.shtml
Article from
National Middle School Association: http://www.nmsa.org/news/transition.html
Bullying
A great site with
annotated and rated links to other bullying sites: http://www.stopbullying.com
Don't Laugh At Me: Anti-bullying
Project: http://www.dontlaugh.org
The Bullying Project in Maine: http://www.cary-memorial.lib.me.us/bullyweb/bully.htm
Info for kids: http://www.nobully.org.nz/advicek/htm#one
Informational article from ERIC: http://ericeece.org/pubs/digests/1997/banks97.html
Informational article from Committee for Children: http://cfchildren.org/PUbully.html
Conflict Resolution
Interactive Online
Activity from PBS: When
Friends Fight: Make Peace, Not War
Colorado School Mediation Project: http://www.csmp.org
National Center for Conflict Resolution Education: http://www.nccre.org
School Mediation Association Associates: http://www.schoolmediation.com
Eating
Disorders
Interactive Online
Activity from PBS: It's
My Life: Eating Disorders: Thin at all Costs?
Go Girls!: A project to empower girls to impact media
around body image: http://www.goldinc.com/gogirls
From Family Doctor: Eating Disorders: Facts for Teens
http://www.familydoctor.org/handouts/277/html
National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated
Disorders website: http://www.anad.org
Internet
Safety
Webwatchers Ages
10-12: An online interactive adventure for middle school kids
(be sure to preview first): from the National Center for Missing
& Exploited Children: http://www.missingkids.org
OR http://www.netsmartz.org
Article, Good Statistics:
Net-Wise
Teens: Safety, Ethics, and Innovation
Safe Surfin': Guide to Internet Safety for Kids and Teens;
has a quiz, too: http://www.safesurfin.com
Articles, info for teens: http://www.safeteens.com
Reluctant
Learners
Discipline Ideas: Discipline Help for home
and school
Smoking & Drugs
Smoking:
Interactive Online
Activity from PBS: Smoking:
The Smoking Scene
From Family Doctor: Smoking Facts for Teens: http://www.familydoctor.org/handouts/274.html
Drug Education:
Reconstructors: A Student Interactive Adventure on drugs, drug
testing, and drug abuse: http://reconstructors.rice.edu
Marijuana: Facts for Teens: http://nica.nih.gov/MarijBroch/Marijteens.html
Mind over Matter: a drug education series for younger teens
http://www.nida.nih.gov/MOM/MOMIndex.html
Other
Issues
Troubled
Teens Treatment Center website: lots of information: http://troubled-teens-treatment-centers.com
Resist: Teens Coping with September 11: http://www.rippleeffects.com/resist/teens
Middle Schools Teacher
Resource Page
Barbara Myers-Letson,
MS Technology Leader
Danbury Public Schools
Last Revised 8/16/02