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Bullying: Grades 6-8 Lesson PlanBullying: Grades 6-8 Lesson Plan
Publisher
Nemours KidsHealth
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Grade
6th - 8th
Subjects
Social & Emotional Learning
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Lesson Plans
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For Teacher Use
Duration
3 hrs
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Collaborative Learning
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Technology
Internet Access
Year
2017
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Bullying: Grades 6-8

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This Bullying: Grades 6-8 lesson plan also includes:
  • Handout: Acting Against Bullying
  • Handout: Circles of Friends
  • Handout: Shutting Down the Rumor Mill
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Two lessons promote social awareness and build relationship skills. In lesson one, scholars define bullying and role-play coping strategies. Lesson two challenges learners to diffuse a bullying situation using their knowledge of similarities and differences. Classmates brainstorm ways to keep their classroom bully-free.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

bullying, cyberbullying, peers, social awareness, social development, gossip, coping skills, problem solving strategies, friendship, relationship skills, relationships, casel

Additional Tags

health

Instructional Ideas

  • Post the discussion questions on the classroom blog, direct pupils to answer questions and reply to their peers
  • Gather a collection of books that showcase a character who properly copes with a bully
  • Bring the principal in to talk about ways to extend the bully-free classroom strategies to the rest of the school, 

Classroom Considerations

  • This lesson is part of the Health Problems series
  • Keep an eye out for participants that may be experiencing bullying and those that are bullies, provide the necessary help to keep individuals safe
  • Make copies before conducting lessons

Pros

  • Lessons come with extension activities
  • Provides assessments and answer keys 
  • Addresses an important topic, especially for the age group

Cons

  • None

Common Core

SL.6.1.c SL.6.1.d SL.6.2 SL.7.1.c SL.7.1.d SL.7.2 SL.8.1.c SL.8.1.d SL.8.2

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