This week I developed a cyber Anti-Bullying event for my School. PACER.org supplied a format for th event that I used as a spring board towards a similar event.
The Anti-Bully event designed toward middle school students and their families would be held in the library of the school.
Pre-event- There will be a sign-in table where guests will receive a gift bag consisting of an anti-bully bookmark from PACER.org, an internet safety booklet and the books The Chocolate War and Chester the Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully. MCGruff’s Anti-Bully video will be looped on the large smart board screen.
The Main Event- Following an introduction and short speech about the school’s commitment to anti-cyber bullying the main event would be a 30-45 minute play about bullying performed by a guest troop of actors.
Activities after the event – would include computers set up with the PACER.org sites http://www.PACERKidsAgainstBullying.org and http://www.PACERTeensAgainstBullying.org
for people to play and learn about the effects of bullying. There will also be a table where people can make acrostic poems against bullying. A drawn heart decorating contest, symbolizing love rather than hate. Middle school students would sign contracts pledging not to cyber-bully and to alert adults when they witness bullying, whether in person or online.
I love your ideas for an anti-bullying event! Very creative. I like that you use art to combat bullying through theatre and acrostic poems and the heart decorating contest!
ReplyDeleteI also like that you have thought about each phase of the event from pre through post-event. Making the posters after the event is a good way of also assessing what students took away from their experience. You could learn a lot by carefully reading their poems!
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