Bounce Back! Years 5-6, 3ed: Book with Reader+

Bounce Back! is a whole school program from Foundation to Year 6 which provides students the skills to ‘bounce back’ when they experience sadness, difficulties, frustrations and challenging times. This completely updated and revised third edition contains an updated Handbook exploring the most recent evidence-based research that underpins Bounce Back! plus ten substantially revised Curriculum Units, all with updated topics, teaching strategies and resources.

Contains an updated Handbook exploring the most recent evidence-based research that underpins Bounce Back! plus ten substantially revised Curriculum Units, all with updated topics, teaching strategies and resources:

• Core values
• Social values – all new
• People bouncing back
• Courage
• Looking on the bright side
• Emotions
• Relationships
• Humour
• Being safe
• Success

Each curriculum unit uses children’s literature, thinking tools and co-operative learning strategies plus a variety of cross-curricular classroom activities to help students:

• develop positive and pro-social values, including those related to ethical and intercultural understanding
• develop self-awareness, social awareness and social skills
• develop self-management strategies for coping and bouncing back
• find courage in everyday life as well as in difficult circumstances
• think optimistically and look on the bright side
• boost positive emotions and manage negative emotions
• develop skills for countering bullying
• use humour as a coping tool
• develop strengths, skills and attitudes for being successful.

Also new to this edition:

• increased support for teacher wellbeing and embedding practices
• stronger Positive Education, CASEL and Australian Curriculum linkages
• more suggestions for differentiation and program implementation.
• Reader+ the next generation eBook includes these digital resources:
• an additional Science curriculum unit
• new Australian, NSW and Victorian curriculum correlation charts
• interactive tools, games and activities
• Blackline Masters
• tools for measuring wellbeing and resilience
• revised resource lists
• key information for families.

Suitable for middle primary.

Table of Contents

About Bounce Back!

How to use Bounce Back!

Chapter 1 What is the Bounce Back! program?

Chapter 2 The Bounce Back! curriculum

Chapter 3 Wellbeing and resilience

Chapter 4 Social, emotional and coping skills for wellbeing and resilience

Chapter 5 Teaching the BOUNCE BACK! acronym

Chapter 6 Implementation and maintenance of Bounce Back!

Teaching strategies and resources

Unit 1 Core values

Unit 2 Social values

Unit 3 People bouncing back

Unit 4 Courage

Unit 5 Looking on the bright side

Unit 6 Emotions

Unit 7 Relationships

Unit 8 Humour

Unit 9 Being safe

Unit 10 Success (WINNERS)