Teaching Themes
Bullying: Everything You Need
Resources for helping kids protect themselves from teasing, taunting, violence, exclusion, and cyberbullying.
Articles
Do Mean Girls Rule Your School?
Grades: 6–8
The experts behind The Ophelia Project, talk abut girl bullies and backstabbing in middle school. They give advice for reforming female bullies who pick on their friends.
Articles
Clip & Save Checklist: Creating an Emotionally Safe Classroom
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8
Before students can grow intellectually, they have to feel safe emotionally. This checklist will help you assess to what degree your school community practices the kinds of beliefs and behaviors that contribute to an emotionally safe environment.
Grades: Early Childhood, Infant, PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5
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 Articles What Can I Do About Bullies?Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 Bullying is a complex issue that can be difficult to approach. Here are some tips from veteran teacher Ruth Manna. |
 "I Survived Being Bullied"Grades: 6–8, 9–12 A brave 15-year-old finds strength by telling her story |
 Cyberbullying: What Teachers and Schools Can DoGrades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 Educate yourself and be on the lookout for signs that cyberbullying is taking place, because you may be the trusted adult a student turns to for help. |
 Blog Posts Anti-Bullying, Peace and Building Character, Part 1Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 One teacher's approach to implementing an anti-bullying program in the classroom. |
 State Battles School BulliesGrades: 3–5, 6–8 New bill tries to stamp out bullies from New Jersey schools |
 Book Resources Character Makes a ComebackGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Describes how you can encourage peer mediating and teach your students strong character values in order to reduce violence and bullying in school... |
 Book Review: Warp SpeedGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Kid Reporter Damien Murphy reviews the book Warp Speed by Lisa Yee. |
 Walter Dean Myers on Stopping the BulliesGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Bullying behavior and its effects on kids |
 Stop the ViolenceGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Discusses the correllation between bullying and violent retaliation. |
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 Writing Activities, Lesson Plans Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon Lesson PlanGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon is excellent for a lesson on bullying and positive self concept. Students love David Catrow's illustrations. They love... |
Take the Pledge to Stop HateGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Discusses the book Hate Hurts: How Children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice, which deals with the origin of hate as well as how hate can be... |
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Beating BullyingGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Watch these skits that students at Asher Holmes Elementary School wrote and performed to help stop bullying. |
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Ask a PsychologistGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 The student who acts like an adolescent. The fiercely competitive child. |
Issues in Our Nation: Dealing With DifferencesGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Mentions some factors involved in the Columbine High School shooting and answers questions from kids about bullying. |
 Activities and Games, Book Resources, Lesson Plans A Bad Case of Stripes Lesson PlanGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Read A Bad Case of Stripes and discuss classroom rules and how students can learn to respect and accept differences in others. |
Ask the Expert: The Child Who Teases OthersGrades: PreK–K Polly Greenberg addresses the issue of bullying in the classroom. |
Book Resources, Discussion Guides Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Bully? Discussion GuideGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Discussion Guide for Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Bully? by Teddy Slater. |
