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    Be an Upstander!

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    Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)

    Lesson Length: 20 - 30 mins

    Topic: Anti-bullying

    Grade Level: 4

    Standards / Framework:

    Brief Description: Students will learn about living as an upstander and explore what they might say to someone who is bullying someone else.

    Know Before You Start: Students should know the difference between an upstander and a bystander.

    Hook:

    • Have students pretend they have travelled back in time to a time when they witnessed someone teasing someone else or they themselves were teased.

      • What would they say now?

    • Explain that in stressful moments, we sometimes don’t know what to do or say to support ourselves or peers.

    • As a group, practice some things they could say to be an upstander against bullying.

    Activity:

    • Read and discuss the sample comic.
      • What would you do if you saw someone picking on someone? 

    • Brainstorm ideas on how to be an “upstander” when situations like the one in the comic arise. Discuss “upstander” language.

    • Using the comic as a guide, have students create a three-panel comic.

      • Panel 1: Show a bullying situation.

      • Panel 2: Show your avatar considering actions you might take to be an upstander against bullying.

      • Panel 3: Show your avatar confronting the situation and using appropriate upstander language.

    Closure:

    • Display student comics in the classroom.

    Differentiation:

    • Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature

    • Provide specific scenarios for students as needed.

    • Provide a handout that describes characteristics of upstanders and bystanders.
    • Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.

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