Activities to Incorporate Into Your Lesson Plans Activity : Draw a Bully Grade Level: Elementary or Middle School Purpose: To teach students behaviors associated with bullying and how to identify a bully. Objectives: As a result of this activity, students will: 1. Understand that bullying is not a person but actions 2. Identify bullying actions 3. Learn not to stereotype classmates Resources and Materials: Flip Chart Paper Markers Procedure: 1. After several poems have been read, ask the students what they think a bully looks like; physically. The students can individually draw their idea or they can respond as a class as you draw their input on flip chart paper. 2. Next, you (the teacher) should draw a picture on the flipchart of someone who used to bully you; or a bully you have known. Your picture should depict a student that most students would not expect to be a bully. 3. Ask students to discuss the differences between their drawing and your drawing. 4. A discussion can then take place about bullying not being a person but actions and steps to take to best manage those actions.
“Having Our Say... Expressions on Bullying from the Hearts of North Carolina’s Youth”
Activities to Incorporate Into Your Lesson Plans Activity : Anti-bullying Campaign Grade Level: Elementary, Middle, or High School Purpose: To get the students involved in a school-wide campaign against bullying and school violence. Objectives: As a result of this activity, students will: 1. Be able to express their feelings about bullying 2. Increase the awareness of bullying 3. Coordinate a campaign for students, teachers and staff in their school to get involved Resources and Materials: Markers Drawing paper Procedure: 1. After reading a selection of poems from the poetry book, talk to the students about their feelings about bullying and what they felt when they read the poems. 2. Explain to students what a campaign is and talk about ways that they could start a campaign at their school. 3. Have each student design a campaign poster to hang in classrooms and hallways. 4. You and the students may decide to have a contest to vote on which design would best fit the campaign and the winner’s design could be used for the campaign advertisement. 5. Allow a set number of students to discuss with administrators how to sustain a campaign through ongoing activities designed by the students and staff.
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“Having Our Say... Expressions on Bullying from the Hearts of North Carolina’s Youth”
Activities to Incorporate Into Your Lesson Plans Activity : Scenarios Grade Level: Elementary, Middle, or High School Purpose: To teach students strategies and techniques to appropriately manage bullying situations. Objectives: As a result of this activity, students will: 1. Discuss with their peers bullying situations 2. Determine the most effective strategies for reducing the impact of bullying 3. Teach their peers strategies for non-violent means to deal with bullying actions Resources and Materials: Completed homework assignments Flip chart paper Space in the classroom to allow the students to act out the situations Procedure: 1. The night before you plan to do the activity, have students write out a scenario where they have witnessed bullying behavior. 2. The day of the activity, collect these scenarios and choose among them the most appropriate to have a class discussion. 3. Have students form groups of no larger than five per group. 4. Distribute one scenario to each group that clearly indicates the dynamics of the situation to be discussed. 5. Allow 10-15 minutes for students to work through their scenarios and develop a list of options for non-violent responses. Continued on the next page.
“Having Our Say... Expressions on Bullying from the Hearts of North Carolina’s Youth”
Activities to Incorporate Into Your Lesson Plans Activity : Scenarios: Continued Procedure: 6. Have the students report to the class the scenario and the options listed by their group members. This can be accomplished by students writing their resolutions on chart paper or allowing students to act out their scenarios. 7. After each group presents, make sure to debrief with the class by allowing them to consider the costs and benefits (positive and negatives) of solving the problems through the suggestions of the group. Be prepared to address the issue of fighting back.
*DJJDP – Center for the Prevention of School Violence would like to acknowledge the assistance of Education Services in the construction and editing of these activities.
“Having Our Say... Expressions on Bullying from the Hearts of North Carolina’s Youth”