![]() ![]() Kids learn the difference between bystanders and upstanders in this video. It introduces the topic with characters they know and love. Sesame Street: Becoming an Upstanderīig Bird wants to join the Good Bird Club but is surprised to find it’s made up of bullies! This is one of the best anti-bullying videos for very young kids. Remember McGruff? He stars in this video, helping a little girl who’s being bullied by teaching her to “Stop, talk, and walk.” He also encourages other students to stand up when they see bullying and gives the bullies themselves a lesson too. ![]() Pair it with other material that gives kids advice on how to stand up for themselves and others and when to involve adults. This video helps students realize that bullies don’t have to ruin their lives. Kids might be surprised to learn that many of their favorites celebrities were bullied when they were in school. This is a simplistic video, but it’s good for younger students to start conversations around kindness and friendship. ![]() Sarah has trouble making friends until one girl decides to leave the others behind and join Sarah for some fun. This may strike a chord with many kids who think it’s OK to bully because they’ve experienced it themselves. Then he realizes it’s up to him to break the chain. Be the ChangeĪ student who’s been bullied himself begins to bully others. Or use it to spark a creative writing assignment: What do you think happens before and after this video takes place? 7. This short, wordless video would make a great PSA on your morning announcements. This one will definitely open up a lot of paths for discussion in your classroom. It shows the violence associated with a lot of bullying and bullying’s strong connection with suicide. This wordless animated film doesn’t pull any punches. The five tips encourage kids to stand up to bullies and seek help when they need it. Overall, I believe my lesson was successful in showing the kids how these companies use youth as targets and open their eyes to the world around them allowing them to make positive life decisions for themselves in the future.This is one of our favorite anti-bullying videos because it gives kids concrete steps to take. ![]() I would also aim to have better time management skills in the classroom so I would not be scrambling in the last 5 minutes of class. If I could reteach this lesson I would try to get the students to go into deeper discussions as they were not as detailed as I wish they would have went. I found that my lesson ran a little short this week causing me to think and act on my feet for the remaining 5 minutes of class therefore I believe my time management skills could have been better this week. Another successful addition to this lesson was that I was able to engage the student who I had troubles with last week in the lesson as they were very excited to learn and added to classroom discussion periods. They also stated that they were shocked with the ways the smoking industry was aiming their advertisements towards them and I was proud that I was able to alert them about it and show them how to prevent the tobacco companies from succeeding in their trials. All students listened to instructions perfectly, were well behaved, and had an open mind to what I was telling them even though they all repeatedly stated that smoking was bad and that they would never do it. Overall, I believe this lesson went really well as all students were engaged and contributing to the classroom discussions. This week I was teaching a health lesson on the different ways smoking companies target youth. This week in the classroom I was able to teach a completely new topic and subject in my grade 6 classroom. ![]()
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