Students will gain an understanding of the importance of kindness as a tool to end name-calling in schools. Students will help raise awareness of the importance of kindness as a tool to end name-calling in schools.

Students think about the impact of group labels and social hierarchies on their sense of identity, self-esteem, and the way they socialize with others. Through discussion, poetry and personal narrative, students explore ways to bridge the social boundaries at their school. They learn about Mix It Up, a project that challenges students to move beyond cliques by socializing with people from a variety of groups, and plan a Mix It Up event for their school.

This set includes three art lesson plans that can be used during No Name-Calling Week. The lessons will lead educators step by step in engaging their students in thought, dialogue and creative expression around name-calling and bullying in their schools. The lessons are meant to stand alone or to be used in conjunction with other No Name-Calling Week Lessons, both Middle and Elementary Level. All three lessons will bring students through a creative process to create art pieces expressing their feelings about to name-calling. Educators are encouraged to submit these pieces to the annual No Name-Calling Week Creative Expression Contest.

Students reflect on the ways in which they have experienced or participated in namecalling based on physical appearance, and the ways in which expectations about appearance in our society affect us. They learn about media literacy and examine media images for 'attractiveness messages' that consciously and unconsciously impact our attitudes and behavior toward others. Students learn about Turn Beauty Inside Out Day, write essays about people in their lives who are beautiful Ňinside and out,Ó and think about other ways to get beyond appearance as a dominant force in their social lives.

This lesson is designed for use in the Physical Education class. The objectives of this short lesson are to:raise students' awareness about the effects of name-calling; have students learn the names of classmates; review Safe Sports Space Rules; elicit a commitment from students to stop name-calling in physical education class.

This book talk is based on the book Pinky and Rex and the Bully. In the story, Pinky is teased because his favorite color is pink and his best friend is a girl. Pinky has to decide whether he will stay true to himself, his best friend and his favorite color. The book provides an opportunity to explore name-calling and put-downs at a developmentally appropriate level. In addition to providing an anti-bullying message the lesson helps build confidence for students to remain true to who they are.

This lesson helps students begin to think about what a school without name-calling and bullying might look and sound like. Students will engage in a guided fantasy activity on this topic, and will then extend their ideas into a group-created plan for what their ideal 'bully-free' school would look like and sound like.

Students work collaboratively to develop an anti-slur policy for their classroom. They consider the categories of name-calling and types of behavior that should be addressed by the policy. They next think about measures for preventing and responding appropriately to name-calling in school, and draw up a draft policy. Students are encouraged to share their class policy with school officials, to learn about the school anti-slur policy (if one exists) and to help educate others in the school about their efforts to reduce name-calling.

Students discuss what it means to be a bystander to bullying and why it is often difficult to intervene and support peers who are affected by bullying. They brainstorm ways to overcome these challenges and are provided with specific strategies for Ňtaking a standÓ against name-calling and bullying. Students then apply these principles by writing responses to advice column letters, role-playing solutions, and writing about real-life bystander situations with which they have been confronted.

These lessons are designed to give younger students an opportunity to engage in activities that teach them about tolerance, respect, and understanding and to help them reflect on what they've learned. There are simple steps we can all take to help eliminate name-calling and bullying. These lesson plans are intended to help with those steps.

Students are asked to consider the difference between good-natured teasing and bullying through discussion of fictional scenarios and reflection on real-life situations. Students are provided with concrete guidelines that help them to understand when harmless joking has crossed the line to become disrespectful or mean.

Students discuss and practice safe and realistic responses to name-calling and bullying by role-playing fictional scenarios. They use the 'instant replay' technique, in which they rehearse and retry responses to name-calling, and receive support from their peers. Students are introduced to "SAFE," a set of strategies for responding to bullying and taking care of their personal needs.

This lesson focuses on what names are, why they are important to us, and what the differences are between names that feel good to hear, and names that feel bad to hear (Put-ups v.. Put-downs). It provides students the opportunity to define for themselves what they like and don't like to be called.

Let the students know they will be doing a role_play during this activity, and ask them to remain respectful, and to refrain from using any offensive language during this activity. The lesson begins with leading the students in a brief discussion about the affects of labels. Students will gain an understanding labels and attached stereotypes. Students will gain an understanding of seeing someone as a whole person. Students will agree to abstain from labeling one another.

This lesson is designed to help draw students' attention to name-calling, bullying, and harassment that targets sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression, specifically name-calling, bullying, and harassment that is anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (anti-LGBT). Students will engage in discussion and activity focused on the prevalence of anti_LGBT name-calling, bullying, and harassment in schools (including their own), consider how anti-LGBT bias in schools hurts all students, and begin to think about how they might address these issues through the creation of their own anti-bullying film.

Students are provided with the opportunity to objectively observe the way in which name-calling and other types of disrespectful language are used in school over a three-day period. Students are asked to reflect on their observations, to look for patterns of behavior, and to begin to consider ways in which the problem of name-calling might be addressed in their school.

Invite students to decorate shirts with a name that they have been called, or have heard other students being called. Ask them to be conscious of the effects these words may have on other students. Be sure to support students and make sure they are using these words to express their dislike for being called names, and not to further bully other students. Once the shirts have been decorated, students can wear them for the day or you can display them in a public setting such as the school library or cafeteria. Let students know that although you may not see it normally on students, others may make them wear these labels daily when they are name_called or bullied.

This lesson helps students think about what they can do when they witness an incident of name-calling or bullying, but are not being called names or bullied themselves. Having already done some skill-building around the strategies of SAFE (Lesson 3), students will listen to scenarios involving name-calling or bullying, and will both individually and in groups analyze the different ways one might respond.

This lesson provides students with concrete strategies for what to do if they are being called names or bullied so that they can stay safe and healthy. Students will work cooperatively to really flesh out the four elements of SAFE, and will complete individual storyboards to illustrate the use of one of the four strategies to deal with a bullying situation.