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GO BACK TO THE LESSON PLANS PAGE  Lesson 9 **Title: Cyber-bullying: Understanding** Topic: Cyber Safety – How students can use the Internet safely. Grade: 6th Time: 25 minutes

__Materials__: 1) Preprinted “polling slips” on personal experience of harassment and bullying 2) Pencils to fill in polling slips 3) Scissors to cut up polling slips 4) TV or projector, attached to PC, with access to the Internet to show movie 5) Video on details of Cyberbullying. http://www.uwec.edu/patchinj/sony_video.wmv __Explanation__: This session describes the different types of harassment and cyber-bullying. It describes why and how it is such a large and dangerous a problem. It describes the steps you can take to address cyber-bulling and harassment.

__Activities__: 1) Every student checks off on a polling slip if they have ever been bullied, cyber-bullied, harassed or harassed on the Internet. Pass in the slips. 2) Teacher lists a series of statistics about cyber-bullying as the teacher counts the slips 3) Teacher may also choose to use the Cyberbullying questionaire from[| http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/tweens/are_you_a_cyberbully.html] 4) The teacher compares the class’s figures to national figures (see [|11 Facts About Cyberbullying] website). 5) Different types of harassment are described 6) The video "Cyberbullying explained in detail" is shown. Students need to write down ten facts from the video. 7) Discuss what the students learned for five minutes 8) Teacher previews the next session, “Cyber-bullying: Reacting”, by listing the ways to address being bullied or if you see bullying

What should you take from the Internet? What should you leave on the Internet? How should you act online?

 GO BACK TO THE LESSON PLANS PAGE Lesson 10 Topic: Cyber Safety – How students can use the Internet safely. Grade: sixth Time: 25 minutes
 * Title: Cyber-bullying: Reacting**

__Materials__: 1) Activity sheets with role playing suggestions

__Explanation__: This session reviews previous day’s material and describes how to deal with cyber-bullying. How to handle a bully. How to escalate the problem. How to reduce the bullying of others.

__Activities__: 1) Teacher reviews Ten Things from the previous day 2) Teacher describes what happens in a properly escalated case, Different scenarios 3) Students divide into groups and play the different roles. They switch groups at least once and do different scenarios. 4) Students list the things they learned. 5) Students ask questions 6) Teacher wraps up the session with main points of addressing cyber-bullying.

What should you take from the Internet? What should you leave on the Internet? How should you act online?