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According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCE), 19% of students aged 12 to 18 were bullied during school. Spending a lot of time at school, classrooms are a key space for shaping social interactions and behaviors among students and teaching them respect, compassion and understanding.
Whether you are considering what to do in October’s national bullying prevention month or want to proactively discuss this topic with students, there are many useful bullying prevention activities for each age group. Put one or more of these anti-bullying activities into your weekly course to promote a culture of kindness and inclusion.
1. Have in-depth class discussions about bullying
What kind of bullying is it? One of the best ways to combat bullying is to educate students about what it is, what it is, how to deal with bullying and how to help prevent bullying. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) defines bullying as:
“One or more people who have or are considered to have more power or status than the goal point to a person’s repeated actions or actions threats to cause fear, pain or harm. Bullying can be physical, verbal, psychological, or any combination of these three.”
Have students discuss various aspects of bullying and preventing bullying in pairs or in groups, including:
- What is bullying and not
- What are different types of bullying
- The impact of bullying on someone
- How to seek help
- How to best support someone who is bullied while safe
Anti-bullying PP demonstration for one and second grade events and posters
Through clouds filled with learning
Results: 1st-2nd
This PowerPoint presentation introduces the topic of bullying, encourages awareness of this serious problem, and teaches empathy and tolerance for your young students. It is child-friendly, including student activities and colorful posters.
Relationship aggression bullying prevention health friendship activities department
By a high-end counselor
Results: 4th to 8th
Reduce bullying through the research and program’s bullying units. This comprehensive unit is designed to address the aggressiveness of primary and secondary school relationships, featuring over 80 pages of lesson plans, strategies, activities and games.
Bully Courses in Middle Schools – High Positions for Bystanders and Prevention of Bullying
Consulted by Bright Futures
Grade: 6th to 8th
This middle school consulting bullying prevention course teaches students to identify the role of bystanders, bullies and trustees, while exploring the deeper reasons behind bullying. Through clear examples, reflections, and interactive discussions, students will enhance their sense of bullying and learn to distinguish between unfriendly, conflict and real bullying.
Bullying Prevention Month Announcement Committee – Anti-Bully Poster – Course Ideas
In the creative classroom
Results: Fifth to 9
Standard: CCSS RI.6.1, 7.1, 8.1
Create low prep anti-bullying campaigns for your middle school and high school students and use these 44 posters and provide quotes on preventing bullying and cyberbullying. Each poster has a critical thinking problem that allows students to read and respond, while also having the opportunity to work with their peers. Problem types include analysis, connection building, self-reflection, and more.
2. Prove the lasting effects of bullying
Providing students with unforgettable visual representations, the impact on bullying is key to anti-bullying education. The crumpled paper (or wrinkled heart) activity provides students with a powerful visual example of the lasting effects of bullying, especially around the difficulty of revoking damage caused to people who were once unfriendly words or targets of action.
To perform this activity, follow these steps:
- Give each student a piece of paper.
- Asking the classroom for examples of what people say or do hurts their feelings. For each example, have the student crumpled or folded paper.
- It means that this is someone’s self-esteem or mental health, which happens whenever someone says or does something.
- Instruct students to try to smooth out the wrinkles they create and discuss ways in which the damage remains – even if measures were taken to remove the damage.
- End this activity by asking students how to show kind behavior to their peers without causing wrinkles in others’ hearts!
You can also talk to any book that character and acts meaninglessly against another character.
Anti-bullying activities Bullying prevention and harmful speech and emotions
By wise decisions
Results: 6th to 12th
Standard: CCSS W.7.2, 7.2a, 7.2b
By using this interactive anti-bullying campaign, middle school students and high school students will have a better understanding of empathy and how harmful words can affect themselves and others.
3. Teach students how to react to bullying
Individuals teaching students to become motorists (taking action to support bullied people) need to develop empathy, build confidence, and provide practical tools to help them get involved safely.
Here are a few ways you can do:
- Explain the difference between bystanders and trustees. Many students are not aware of the power they want to have a positive impact. A clear distinction between passive bystanders and proactive trustees can help students understand their role in bullying situations.
- Give them examples of phrases that can be used to interrupt bullying. Practicing what you say in some situations strengthens students’ confidence in becoming a top-notch person.
- Teach safe intervention methods. Many students want to help but are unsure how to intervene without escalating the situation or putting themselves at risk. Teach students specific techniques to become advanced standards such as: distraction, seeking help and supporting the target person.
Anti-bullying activities Bullying prevention and harmful speech and emotions
By responsive counselor
Results: 1st-3rd
The learning in a course consistent with justice is about learning how to act and become a replacement. Its focus is what to say when you see or hear unfair treatment, practice becoming a replacement, and determine how to make the classroom and school welcome.
4. Build a good chain
This activity encourages students to recognize and practice good behaviors while enhancing the spread of kindness throughout the community. Create a visual representation of how good behaviors create a more positive school community:
- First, the colored paper for each student strip is given.
- Whenever students witness or perform good deeds, they write on a piece of paper.
- Over time, the strips form a “chain of goodness” around the classroom or school.
- At the end of this month, students’ efforts are celebrated by reflecting on the chain and discussing how kindness can reduce bullying.
Friendship or Kindness Chain – Classroom Community
Hang with Mrs. Hulsey
Results: Any
Setting up is easy: Print out the board title and hang it in your room, print out enough “Catch Friendly” or “Catch Be Friendly” bars to keep a fairly large supply and send out the notes every time the student grabs another to do something. Then, just build your friendship/friendship chain so everyone can see!
Kindness Coloring Supplement Notes | The Whole School Kindness Project SEL
By the teacher’s resources
Level: 32
Promote a positive school culture with this kind of friendly addition – a creative, flexible resource that helps students express appreciation and compassion in a fun and hands-on way. Students even share these supplementary notes anonymously for classmates and employees, turning daily moments into meaningful acts of kindness!
5. Design bullying prevention poster
Art can be a powerful way to solve serious problems like bullying, and the ideas for anti-bullying posters include clear messages with slogans to abstract images that capture the feeling. Hold a competition where students can create posters, videos or digital artworks to promote kindness, inclusion, and bullying prevention. Show entries on school or social media and offer small prizes for the most influential work.
Bullying Prevention – PowerPoint, Poster and Certificate of Oath
Fanatic fun
Results: Any
This anti-bullying PowerPoint stance allows teachers and students to openly discuss the reasons why children bully others and what the students do to do about it. Resources include 28 slideshows, student worksheets and certificates.
11 bullying prevention posters and coloring pages, cyberbullying
Music City Consultant
Level: PreK-5
This 11 set of bullying prevention posters tells students about four types of bullying (verbal, physical, social and cyber) to report adult bullying and prevent cyberbullying.
6. Practice thoughtful communication skills
Mindful communication (that is, to be aware of what you say and how you say) can play a key role in preventing bullying by promoting empathy, self-awareness, and respect in interaction.
Take some time to develop skills that promote mindful communication, such as:
- Use the “i” statement
- Pause before the speech, especially when you are depressed or depressed
- Listen actively
Fuzzy Reflection | Social Emotional Learning | Classroom Behavior Management
By Curtisteach
Results: Any
This editable fuzzy reflection table can guide children through a simple recovery process by helping them determine whose words affect who, why it matters and how to make things right.
Stay friendly with TPT
Since 2006, the National Bullying Prevention Month has been recognized throughout October. Its main goal is to promote kindness, inclusion and acceptance to prevent childhood bullying. As it is close to the beginning of many school years, it is the ideal time to start talking to students of all ages on this challenging topic. Through anti-bullying resources created by experts, all teachers and school support staff can help build a culture of kindness throughout October and beyond.
