Bullying+Lesson+plans

= = Bullying Lesson Plans Title – Web of Good Feelings

By – Dawn Pawlowski

Primary Subject – Language Arts

Secondary Subjects – Other

Grade Level – K-12 Objectives:

Students will…

Materials Needed:

//The Meanest Thing to Say//

//Please Stop Laughing at Me//

Step-By-Step Tasks

(2) For kindergarten through fifth grade, read

//The Meanest Thing to Say//

by Bill Cosby as a group. For middle school and high school students, read chapter 6, “Fragile Hope” of

//Please Stop Laughing at Me//

by Jodee Blanco. (3) Post-Reading Discussion Questions: Summarize the reading. How did the character feel about being bullied? What would you have done in that situation? (4) Have class sit in a circle; you are included in this circle. You will start with the yarn in your possession. As a group, you will create a “web of good feelings.” You will start by passing the ball of yarn to a student and give that student a compliment. Make sure that when you or anyone else passes the yarn that they wrap the yarn around their hand once; the web will not build up if people do not hold a piece of yarn before passing. Make sure the ball of yarn makes it to everyone before a person gets it a second time. (5) Once everyone has gotten the yarn once, allow students to continue passing the yarn, and give a compliment, in no particular order. (6) Once everyone has given a compliment to everyone or a specified period of time runs out, have the ball of yarn return to you. Explain how it is harder to give a compliment than to make fun of someone, but we are all connected with our compliments. (7) You are then going to take the scissors and cut the yarn so that everyone will end up with individual strands of the web. Allow students to keep these strands to remind them of all the good things said about them. Encourage students to tie yarn to somewhere so that they don’t lose it — backpacks, lunch bags, etc.

Title – Bullying: What is it?

By – Nate Higby, Eric Luneke, Arthur Shattan

Primary Subject – Health / Physical Education

Secondary Subjects – Other

Grade Level – 2-4 Rationale:

Materials needed: Procedure: Extension Project:
 * Hat
 * Scenarios
 * Q & A sheet
 * Ask class what bullying looks like and what happens.
 * Tell them the definition of a bully and bullying. Ask the question again and see if the response changes.
 * Give them little scenarios (tailor them to situations you have observed) and ask them if it is ‘bullying’
 * Ask them why they think people bully.
 * Do Activity 1 below.
 * After each skit, respond by telling them if they had the right idea or not about the response to being bullied and who to report it to.
 * Hand out your Q & A sheet and let them complete it. Feel free to wander around and help them out.
 * When they finish, go over the answers.
 * Debrief with students about what they learned today.
 * Have class make anti-bullying posters or anti-bullying comic strips.

Q/A sheet: Activity 1: Scenario Examples (for the hat):
 * What does bullying look like?
 * What happens?
 * Why do people bully?
 * How does being bullied affect the student?
 * How does bullying affect the bully?
 * Divide class into either groups of four or five (3 may work, but can be tricky).
 * Have one student from each group pull a scenario from the hat (see below) that they must act out and teach others what to do.
 * Give them at least twenty to thirty minutes depended on your time constraints.
 * After each performance, reflect on it and ask the class if they should have done something different. Do not allow anyone to attack the groups. It can be confusing and hard on the class.
 * After every performance is done, debrief on what they have learned today.
 * Tom and his friend, Jack, both decide to make fun of a kid. You are talking to them and they tell you their plan. It sounds very mean. What should you do?
 * You see a friend crying and he tells you that he was being bullied. What should you do?
 * You see a kid throwing a ball at another kid. What should you do?