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Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)
Lesson Length: 20 - 30 mins
Topic: Anti-bullying
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:
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Have students pretend they have travelled back in time to a time when they witnessed someone teasing someone else or they themselves were teased.
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What would they say now?
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Explain that in stressful moments, we sometimes don’t know what to do or say to support ourselves or peers.
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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?
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Brainstorm ideas on how to be an “upstander” when situations like the one in the comic arise. Discuss “upstander” language.
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Using the comic as a guide, have students create a three-panel comic.
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Panel 1: Show a bullying situation.
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Panel 2: Show your avatar considering actions you might take to be an upstander against bullying.
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Panel 3: Show your avatar confronting the situation and using appropriate upstander language.
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Closure:
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Display student comics in the classroom.
Differentiation:
- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature
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Provide specific scenarios for students as needed.
- Provide a handout that describes characteristics of upstanders and bystanders.
Resources:
- Comic to print or display: Comic.
- Suggested Reading:
- Dare! A Story About Standing Up to Bullying in Schools by Erin Frankel.
Suggested Content Packs:
Elementary School
Middle School
Playgrounds
Around the Home
Amusement Park
Sports
