2. Cyber-Bullying
• Cyber-bullying is bullying that takes place
using electronic technology. Electronic
technology includes devices and equipment
such as cell phones, computers, and tablets as
well as communication tools including social
media sites, text messages, chat, and
websites.
3. Examples
• mean text messages or emails.
• rumors sent by email or posted on social
networking sites.
• embarrassing pictures, videos, websites, or
fake profiles.
4. Exploring Students' Similarities and
Differences
• Make a chart asking kids similarities and
differences people have
• Explain how everyone is, but everyone is
equally important
5. More Activities
• Watch the news piece from ABC News
on Karen Klein, a 68-year-old bus
monitor who was taunted and harassed
by four 7th grade students. Use some
or all of the provided questions to
guide your discussion.
Have a discussion about what they watched.
6. • Create a forum to express your
opinions about cyber-bullying. First,
take a look at the anti-cyber-bullying
campaign, Say It to My Face
(www.sayit2myface.org).
• Have students work together in groups.
7. • Irish poet, W. B. Yeats (William Butler
Yeats, 1865-1939) concluded his 1899
poem, “Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of
Heaven,” with this line: “Tread softly
because you tread on my dreams.”
• Have students write what that line means to
them while incorporating cyber-bullying
