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The 3 R's to help stop bullying
What are Recognize, Report, and Refuse?
Two examples of bullying
Answers vary and may include:
*hurting someone's body or belongings
*using words to hurt someone's feelings
*leaving someone out on purpose
*getting others to be mean to or exclude someone
*cyberbullying
A person who sees or knows about bullying is called
What is a bystander?
Name 2 reasons why bystanders sometimes choose to do nothing.
Answers vary.
*They’re afraid they’ll be bullied too. *It’s peer pressure—they want to go along with what other people are doing. *Nobody else is doing anything either. *They don’t want to be labeled a “snitch” or a “tattletale.” *They might think it’s okay. *They’re used to it. *They feel like he deserves it.
Bystanders can become part of the problem. Name 2 reasons.
Answers vary:
By doing nothing.
By watching.
By laughing.
By encouraging.
By joining in.
Cyberbullying is...
Cyberbullying is mean or hurtful behavior that keeps happening, and is unfair and one-sided.
Cyberbullying happens online using electronic technology.
In the first slide, Katie grabbed Raphael's milk. He grabbed it back. She elbowed him. He drank her milk. He got angry and smashed her crackers. She screamed and called him a jerk.
Name 2 reasons why this was a conflict/disagreement and not a bullying situation.
Answers include:
*It's one incident. *As far as we know, neither Katie nor Raphael had picked on the other repeatedly. *It's not one-sided because both Katie & Raphael participated in this bad behavior. *They can probably solve it by themselves.
In the video with Angie and Kiana, the bystanders did not do anything. Name 2 ways in which they made the bullying worse or were becoming part of the problem.
Answers vary:
*They laughed. *They didn't report. *They didn't say anything. *They didn't stick up for Kiana or eachother. *They didn't tell Angie to stop.
Noah puts his arm around Olivia and it makes her feel uncomfortable.
We recognized that Olivia was being bullied.
Name 2 reasons why.
Answers Vary:
Olivia doesn’t like it. She wants Noah to stop and he doesn’t. He keeps doing it. Olivia feels like nothing she does makes it stop.
Bystanders can do the right thing when they see or know about bullying happening.
Name 2 out of the 4 ways.
Report or help report the bullying.
Stand up for the person being bullied.
Be respectful and kind.
Include everyone.
Three ways to show assertiveness
Answers vary and include:
*Face the person you're talking to. *Eye contact. *Keep your head up and shoulders back. *Use a calm, firm voice. *Use respectful words.
We watched a video where Kiana and Angie were friends.
Angie was mean to Kiana. We recognized that Kiana was being bullied. Name four reasons that showed Kiana was being bullied.
Answers include:
*Angie is mean to her on purpose whenever other kids are around. *She keeps doing it. *Kiana can’t make it stop. *Angie is more popular. *Kiana doesn’t do anything back.
Tyrice chose not to stand up to Reggie. Explain what he did and why.
Tyrice decided to help Gabe report the bullying to Mr. Chen.
Tyrice was afraid that Reggie would pick on him next.
In the video, some of the bystanders were part of the problem (Noah's friends).
Name 3 ways they were part of the problem.
Answers vary:
They’re encouraging Noah’s behavior.
They’re making Noah think what he’s doing is okay.
They’re doing nothing to help stop it.
They gave Noah a high five.
They laughed.
Technology and devices can be fun and useful when they're used respectfully.
Name 3 ways in which they can be used respectfully.
Answers vary:
Help with schoolwork.
Research.
Learning.
Getting information.
Connecting and staying in touch with friends and family.
Entertainment.
1) Explain what courage has to do with bullying prevention.
2) Explain the positive outcome when one bystander chooses to do the right thing at our school.
Answers vary:
Doing the right thing sometimes takes courage.
The more who are willing to do the right thing when you see bullying happen, the easier it will be for other bystanders to do the right thing too.
After RECOGNIZING that she was being bullied, Kiana should do one or two of the three choices. Your team thinks she should... and then explain why.
Answers should include
1)report to the Ms. Warren
2)refuse or assertively tell Angie to stop bullying her 3)try talking to Angie first and then if that doesn't work, tell Ms. Warren
After watching the video, we recognized that Reggie and his friends were bullying Gabe because of the way he looked and what he liked to do. According to the bullying definition, name 4 ways in which Reggie and his friends bullied Gabe.
Answers vary and may include:
*Reggie keeps saying mean things to Gabe.
*It’s unfair because Gabe doesn’t do anything back to Reggie.
*Reggie’s friends go along with it.
*Gabe hasn’t been able to make it stop.
*Poured milk on his drawing.
*Smashed his sculpture.
In the video, one bystander, Sara, does the right thing. Name 3 things that she does to show support to Olivia.
Answers vary:
She stands up to Noah. She tells Noah to cut it out, that Olivia doesn’t like it. She is nice to Olivia. She says she will go with Olivia to report the bullying to Ms. Dee.
In the video, Linh did 2 things to REFUSE the bullying of Simone online.
First she...
Then she...
Linh wrote a positive message about Simone. When the cyberbullying continued, Linh and Riley reported it.
Fill in the blanks for the bullying definition.
Bullying is when someone ______ being mean to someone else ___ __________.
The person it's happening to hasn't been able to make it ______.
It is __________ and ___-______.
keeps
on purpose
stop
unfair
one-sided
In the second part of the video, Kiana needed to stop the bullying and she had 3 choices. The 3 choices were...
1) Do nothing
2) Report the bullying to Ms. Warren/ the teacher
3) Assertively tell Angie to stop
Tyrice showed empathy for Gabe.
Explain...
1)How he showed empathy for Gabe
2)How do you think Tyrice felt after he decided to do some things to support Gabe and help him report bullying?
Answers Vary:
1) He thought Gabe deserved to be treated with respect. He felt bad to Gabe. He was kind to him. Offered to help fix the sculpture
2) Like he did the right thing. Proud. Brave. Happy. Courageous.
In the video, Ms. Dee was going to help stop the bullying. Name the 4 things that she was going to do to help Olivia.
Answers vary:
Ms. Dee is going to move Olivia away from Noah in class to make sure she feels safe.
She is going to make sure there is more supervision in the hallways and other places where Noah bothers Olivia.
She is going to talk to Noah separately about changing his behavior.
She is going to check in with Olivia to make sure the bullying has stopped.
Which ones are false? (There may be more than one answer)
A) Once something is online, a bystander cannot do anything to make it stop.
B) It can happen any time of the day or night
C) A mean post can go to lots of people quickly
D) Cyberbullying is not as harmful as other types of bullying because you can't see the person who is doing it
E) The person bullying can be anonymous- at least at first
A & D