K-12 Bullying Units and Resources

Primary (Pre-K - Grade 3)

Don’t Laugh At Me Teachers’ Guide and Curricula for Peter Yarrow’s Don’t Laugh At Me
curriculum

Stop Bullying Now 10 activities and lessons to help teach children empathy and acceptance

Stop Bullying Behaviour Lesson Plans Seven lessons for Pre-K- Grade 3 students

Literature Response and Reading Circle Based on A Bad Case of Stripes includes three days of activities including games

Oxfam Unit on Bullying Prevention From Oxfam’s Cool Planet, a series of
activities to help children identify and deal with bullying behaviors using literature, writing and discussion

Junior (Grade 4-Grade 6)

Cybersmart Lesson Plan on Cyberbullying includes printable activity sheets

Center for Service Learning Lesson plans, activities, evaluation rubrics for complete 50 hour curriculum to address bullying (5th grade)

Two e-Books on Bullying with Lesson Plans

It’s My Life Lesson Plan for anti-bullying curriculum from PBSKids

The Secret Life of Hubie Hartzel Interdisciplinary curriculum based on the book, includes lessons on bullying discussion

Groark Learns About Bullying Meant to be used with a film series, but
contains valuable ideas that can be easily adapted for use without the films

Intermediate (Grade 7-Grade 9)

Below are a handful of creative activities that can be used with Intermediate students to spark discussion. Many of these can be adapted for use with older and younger students.

Bullying Webquest Lesson on creating an anti-bullying proposal for Intermediate students

Cruel School A lesson plan for middle school students from Discovery Education. Includes benchmarks, milestones and rubrics.

Don’t Suffer In Silence Anti-bullying pack and resources for schools. Also available on this site are two short anti-bullying videos and an anthology of students’ poetry about bullying for download. Separate links are included to those resources. Taken together, they are a powerful set of materials for use with an anti-bullying unit.

Bullying Poem Video Quicktime video from British Anti-bullying Initiative Great for sparking discussion

Don’t Suffer In Silence Video 60 second PSA from the UK shows bullying victims finding creative ways to tell that they are being bullied. Another discussion starter

Writing an Anti-Bullying Poem PDF with concrete advice on writing about bullying for young writers

Anti-Bullying Contest Winners Printable PDF of winning poems from all grade levels in British Anti-bullying Poetry Contest

Senior (Grade 10-Grade 12)

LawConnection Lesson Discussion and Language Arts lesson for Seniors (adaptable for younger grades)

Using Literature to Teach About Bullying A literature unit on bullying using a high interest novel. From the International Reading Association

General Resources

Focus On Bullying A Complete Bullying Prevention Program for Schools from the Ministry of Education, British Columbia. Includes Lesson Plans for All Elementary Grade Levels (PDF file)

Teaching Ideas to use with www.bullying.org for all grade levels (printable PDF)

It’s Cool To Care Toolkit Bullying Awareness Week 2005 Toolkit with ideas for activities

Pledge Poster Poster with the I will not stand by pledge

Peer Support Approach to Bullying PDF printable explanation of one approach to bullying for schools

B.C. Safe Schools Initiative Downloadable PDF includes lesson plans for Grades K-7

Bully B’ware Bullying information, prevention program and presentation, posters and masters to purchase

Bullying Handout Information, resources, handout sheets about bullying

Cyberbullying.ca Resources and information about cyberbullying from the creator of Bullying.org

Bullying Survey Lesson Plan Adaptable for Grades 4-6 and 6-8

Using Literature to Teach About Bullying A list of books and suggested activities for students in grades 1-3, 4-6 and 6-8