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Lesson plan 1

Subject: School bullying in close up

Aims:
- to name different kinds of bullying
- to inform about the scale of bullying
- to make students realize the consequences of bullying

Activity 1

A group of students act out a drama in which some of them bully another student. The
scene presents different kinds of harassment. (e.g. beating, spitting, destroying
someone’s possessions, kicking, calling names, mockery, cyberbullying, exclusion from
the group, hostile gestures).
The teacher refers to the drama asking some questions. The main aim of this activity is
to name different kinds of bullying. The answers are written on the board in categories.

Teacher's notes:

 What different kinds of aggression did you notice?
 In what categories can we divide them?
 Can you think of other examples of bullying for each of the categories.

physical violence: beating, kicking, spitting, pushing, taking money from someone,
taking or destroying someone’s possessions. Physical violence is also when we push
somebody to be aggressive or bully others

verbal violence: calling names, mockery, gossiping, blackmailing, threatening, insulting

cyberbullying: sending rude messages, threatening someone using different
communication channels, filming someone and sharing it online, online fights with
angry language, pretending to be someone else and as that person sending messages

relational aggression: exclusion from the group, isolation, ignoring

others: hostile gestures, making faces etc.

Activity 2

The teacher points out that among others, cyberbullying is a rather new way of bullying.
It started when the internet became a common tool of communication and it is still
expanding. At the moment there are at least nine different types of cyberbullying.
Then the teacher introduces the next task concerning different types of cyberbullying.
The students work in groups of three. They match the names to the definitions. After
they have finished the teacher gets feedback and asks a concluding question: