In our age of technology it it so important that we are teaching our students how to be leaders online. Not to just passively engage with content and other people, and especially not to turn a blind eye to bullying online.
The effects of bullying can be severe, either online or face-to-face. They can lead to catastrophic long term mental heath and self-esteem issues. Empowering our learners to stand up to bullying is something that we need to do as educators. We need to give them a safe space to try being an active bystander, so that they know what to do in a real situation. That is the purpose of our lesson, to give learners a chance to experiment with standing up to bullying.
I was very fortunate to work with a brilliant college (https://sarahmia.wixsite.com/miss-gs-teacher-talk/blog) when adapting this lesson plan from https://www.commonsense.org/education/ . The lesson is aimed at grade 3, but can work for 2-5 with adaptations.
The lesson and handouts can be found here.
I would love to hear how you use this lesson and any adaptations that you have made to it,
Dominique
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