Sample lesson plan What do powerful digital bystanders do? Say | |
| Level | Grade 9-12 |
| Duration | 1-2 weeks |
Overview
Let’s face it: Some online spaces can be full of negative, rude, or downright mean behavior. But what counts as cyberbullying? Help your students learn what is — and what isn’t — cyberbullying and give them the tools they’ll need to combat the problem.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize similarities and differences between in-person bullying, cyberbullying, and being bystander.
- Identify powerful digital bystanders
- Empathize with the targets of cyberbullying.
- Identify strategies for dealing with cyberbullying and ways they can be an upstander for those being bullied.
Key Vocabulary:
Bully – the person who is doing the bullying
Bullying – unwanted and aggressive verbal, social, or physical behavior towards another
Bystander – someone who sees a bullying or cyberbullying situation, but doesn?۪t do anything to stop it
Cyberbullying – using digital devices, sites, and apps to intimidate, harm, and upset someone
Empathy – to imagine the feelings that someone else is experiencing
Target – the person who is on the receiving end of the bullying
upstander – a person who supports and stands up for someone else
What you’ll need
Classroom resources
- Blank index cards
- Markers or crayons
- Lesson Slides
- Video: Don’t be a bystander to cyberbullying?
- Sondra’s Story Handout
- Lesson Quiz
Take-home resources
Procedure
During the lessons, students are expected to complete and participate in the following activities
- Warm up – Is it Cyberbullying: Optional activity – E-volve games in digital passport (Common sense Education), ask questions related what bystander cyberbullying is? and invite students to respond, watch video – About bystander
- Expand – who is involved: Talk about target, bully, bystander, Empathy and upstander. Ask students to share their views and invite them to share answers.
- Analyze – Sandra’s story: Distribute handout, ask students if this an example a cyberbully and who is bystander in this story. Invite them to share their answers.
- Wrap up – Upstander Cards: Distribute blank index cards and markers or colored pencils to students, ask students to create upstander cards. Cards can be for any of the roles in a cyberbullying situation: the target, the bully, or someone who sees it.
Assessments
Ask students to finish the following assessments
- Lesson Quiz reflecting bystander knowledge
- Family Activity
- Family Tips
