Bullying and Human Rights Newsletter
Source: The Advocates for Human Rights
Provides lesson plans, prevention ideas, resources, bibliography, and other tools to address bullying.
Grade Level: elementary – high school
Subject Area: social studies, all-school activity
Teaching Students to Prevent Bullying
Source: National Education Association
Bullying is the number one discipline problem in middle schools. These lesson, activities, and games will help you and your students understand this serious problem.
Grade Level: elementary – high school
Subject Area: all-school activity
Cyberbullying
Source: Common Sense Education
4 lessons on cyberbullying.
Grade Level: elementary – high school
Subject Area: social studies, language arts
Source: Common Sense Education
Variety of lessons.
Grades: 3-8
Cyberbullying: Understanding and Addressing On-line Cruelty
Source: Anti-Defamation League’s A World of Difference Institute, 2008
Provides educators with the tools to increase awareness about the problem of cyberbullying with age-appropriate information and skills that encourage youth to think critically about Internet communication, develop empathy for others, respond constructively to cyberbullying,and online aggression, and interact safely on the Internet.
Grade Level: elementary – high school, educators
Subject Area: social studies, all-school activity
Digital Rights
Source: HRE USA
Our understanding of the laws, rights, and responsibilities when we access and use the Internet have lagged behind the extreme pace of technological development. In this lesson, students will learn about the rights we have every time we use a digital device to post, communicate, click, and browse as well as the rights that young people and digital advocates are demanding be enacted into law in the United States. Students will also learn about our responsibilities as users of the Internet regarding the way we consume and share information and engage with others in online spaces. When we better understand our digital rights, we are empowered to be good digital citizens and insist that companies and the government develop technology in ethical and responsible ways.
Grade Level: high school
Subject Area: social studies
Gender Doesn’t Limit You
Source: Teaching Tolerance
Each lesson addresses a different form of gender bullying: peer exclusion, role exclusion, teasing about gendered activities, biased judgments, gendered beliefs, highlighting gender.
Grade Levels: middle – high school
Subject Area: social studies, school-climate
How to Be Bully Free Workbook: Word Searches, Mazes, What-ifs, and Other Fun Activities for Kids
Source: Free Spirit.
Based on The Bully Free Classroom, this hands-on workbook is full of engaging activities that help kids recognize bullying behaviors, understand that bullying is not acceptable, respond appropriately if they are bullied, know what to do when others are bullied, and more. May be used as a stand-alone, as a companion to the book, or as part of an anti-bullying effort already in place in a classroom, school, district, or youth group.
Grade Level: elementary – high school, educators
Subject Area: social studies, all-school activity
Identity Based Bullying
Source: Anti-Defamation League
Helps students define and understand identity-based bullying, reflect on experiences they have had, analyze scenarios, and come up with potential solutions.
Grade Level: elementary
Subject Area: social studies
Making Decisions: Ally or Bystander
Source: Welcoming Schools
Explores what it means to be an ally and explores possible interventions into bullying, harassment, and name-calling.
Grade Level: upper elementary – middle school
Subject Area: Social studies, all-school activity
Name Calling and Feeling Safe in School
Source: Welcoming Schools
Helps students take responsibility for creating a safe school environment for everyone.
Grade Level: lower elementary
Subject Area: Social studies, all-school activity
Not in Our School
Source: Not in Our Town
Uses video, lesson plans, and storytelling to inspire young people to speak out against bullying and harassment.
Grade Level: middle – high school
Subject Area: school climate
Ready, Set, Respect! Elementary Toolkit
Source: GLSEN, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association for the Education of Young Children
Lessons focus on name-calling, bullying and bias, LGBT-inclusive family diversity, and gender roles and diversity. Designed to be used as either stand-alone lessons or as part of a school-wide anti-bias or bullying prevention program.
Grade Level: elementary
Subject Area: all school activities
Words That Hurt and Words That Heal
Source: Welcoming Schools
Encourages students to consider the importance of their words and actions and how they can be allies to others.
Grade Level: lower elementary
Subject Area: Social studies, all-school activity
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