Created by
Jerry Lee Orlando
TOPIC: Cyber-bullying
GRADE LEVELS: 6th Grade
LESSON DURATION: Three 50 minute class periods
SOFT SKILLS: Empathy, Communication, Collaboration
Learning Outcome:
The student will demonstrate an understanding of cyber-bullying and how to respond appropriately to cyberbullying.
Standards of Learning:
National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
Digital Citizen: Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.
2a Students cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world.
2b Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
2c Students demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.
2d Students manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security and are aware of data-collection technology used to track their navigation online.
English SOL
6.3 The student will understand the elements of media literacy. b) Identify the characteristics and effectiveness of a variety of media messages. c) Craft and publish audience-specific media messages.
6.7 The student will write narration, description, exposition, and persuasion. a) Identify audience and purpose. b) Use a variety of pre-writing strategies including graphic organizers to generate and organize ideas. c) Organize writing structure to fit mode or topic. d) Establish a central idea and organization. e) Compose a topic sentence or thesis statement if appropriate. f) Write multi-paragraph compositions with elaboration and unity. g) Select vocabulary and information to enhance the central idea, tone, and voice. h) Expand and embed ideas by using modifiers, standard coordination, and subordination in complete sentences. i) Revise sentences for clarity of content including specific vocabulary and information. j) Use computer technology to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish writing.
6.8 The student will edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, and paragraphing. a) Use a variety of graphic organizers, including sentence diagrams, to analyze and improve sentence formation and paragraph structure. b) Use subject-verb agreement with intervening phrases and clauses. c) Use pronoun-antecedent agreement to include indefinite pronouns. d) Maintain consistent verb tense across paragraphs. e) Eliminate double negatives. f) Use quotation marks with dialogue. g) Choose adverbs to describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. h) Use correct spelling for frequently used words.
Materials:
Computers with Internet access
Multimedia projector
Cyber-bullying and How to Respond document
Cyber-bullying and How to Respond rubric
Cyber-bullying Review slideshow
Cyber-bullying Comic rubric
Activities:
Day 1: Introduction to Cyber-bullying
The 6th grade student will build an understanding of cyber-bullying and how to respond appropriately to cyber-bullying by participating in a discussion and activity about cyber-bullying and appropriate responses to cyber-bullying.
Show Digital Life 101 video from Common Sense Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkwmD6OQrWQ
Show Stand Up to Cyber-bullying video from the Federal Trade Commission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN2fuKPDzHA
Open cyber-bullying discussion:
Questions:
- Have you ever been upset with someone online? How did you deal with it?
- Has someone ever sent you a mean message online? How did it make you feel?
- If you knew someone was being cyber-bullied, what would you do?
- Do you know where to report cyber-bullying on the websites and apps you use? Who would you talk to at school?
Points to make:
- It’s OK not to like someone. It’s not OK to bully them.
- If you see something online that’s meant to hurt someone, don’t “like” or share it. Think about how you’d feel if someone did that to you.
- If someone cyberbullies you, you may want to send a mean comment back, but it could make this worse. Instead, save the evidence and report it.
- Being a good digital citizen means standing up for others. Take steps to help peers being cyber-bullied (eg., post nice comments, sit with them at lunch, report the harassment, etc.).
Students will then complete Cyber-bullying and How to Respond activity.
Websites for activity:
https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/1039631/pages/digital-citizenship-cyberbullying
http://endcyberbullying.net/what-to-do-if-youre-a-victim/
Cyber-bullying and How to Respond activity:
- Thoroughly define cyber-bullying and list multiple examples.
- List and explain at least 5 examples of appropriate responses to cyber-bullying.
- List and explain at least 3 examples of how you should not respond to cyber-bullying.
- URLs of the two sources you used to gather your information.
Day 2: Cyber-bullying Comic Activity
The 6th grade student will participate in a cyber-bullying role play activity by creating a cyber-bullying comic strip to develop an understanding of cyber-bullying and practice appropriate responses to cyber-bullying.
Review:
Review cyber-bullying and appropriate responses to cyber-bullying with the Cyber-bullying Review slideshow.
Present the slideshow to discuss the various roles involved in cyber-bullying: bully, victim, bystander.
- Students will have an opportunity to practice responding appropriately to cyber-bullying by creating a cyber-bullying comic strip in Toondoo.
- Students will create a comic strip that incorporates a cyberbully, a victim, and bystanders. The comic strip will illustrate victims and bystanders practicing appropriate responses to cyber-bullying.
Remind students to stay school appropriate, to keep characters true to their roles, and that the goal is for victims and bystanders to respond appropriately to cyber-bullying. (there is a slide for this)
Students visit the Toondoo website and create their cyberbullying comic.
Day 3: Wrap up and Reflection
Students will complete their cyber-bullying comic and complete an ePortfolio reflection letter.
Enrichment/Follow-up:
Students will “read” Stand By or Stand Up? interactive comic from NetSmartz.org
https://www.nsteens.org/Comics/StandByOrStandUp
Students will play the Digital Compass game from Common Sense Media and earn badges as they practice making good decisions.
https://www.digitalcompass.org/game/index.html
Assignment Rubrics:
Cyber-bullying and How to Respond Rubric
Sample of Completed Assignment (indicating mastery)
Cyberbullying and How to Respond Activity
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