What Should You Do?
Elementary School Students: How should you handle these bullying situations?
Overview: An activity designed with hypothetical bullying scenarios (that are based on real events), which students can use to think through responses and solutions.
Goal: Students are presented with video and written scenarios, then guided through response options. The objective is not to find the right or wrong answer, but rather to have meaningful reflection and education about how to handle difficult social situations that are common for many students.
Steps to use:
Step One: Provide everyone with the "Student Handout"
Step Two: Video Scenarios
- Invite students to watch the Season One, Video 29 “What Should You Do?” Inclusion video from the PACERTalksAboutBullying series.
- Instruct students to pause at each of the “options” in the video, the visual marker for these prompts are the orange block of text at left side of screen, deciding how they think it would impact the people involved.
- Have students respond to the questions on their “Student Handout” under each option.
- Once they have recorded their response, to then watch what the students say about the option along with the adult instruction.
- After watching the video, ask students to decide which of the options best fits how they would respond.
Step Three: Written Scenarios
- After watching the video, encourage students to then read scenarios one and two.
- Ask them to decide how they should respond, say a little bit about why they would choose that response, and think about the impact that response would have on those involved.
