Bullying Prevention - Erasing Meanness with video at the end of slide show.

1. Bullying Prevention
Lesson #3
September 2015 Character Education

2. DRSL’s:
 What: Bullying Prevention – Erasing Meanness
 Why: Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Lifelong Learning, Communication,
Responsible Citizenship

3. Erasing Meanness Activity:
 Teachers: Write on your board in LARGE letters…
What do YOU want
to be remembered
for?

4. Erasing Meanness Activity:
 Teachers: Lead the way and be the first to write down a mean word. These
ones should all be done in black and blue to represent the damage these
words can have on people, like bruises. Then pass the marker on. Have every
student in the class go up one or two at a time and write down a mean (but
appropriate) word around “What do YOU want to be remembered for?”
 Make sure they are all different. Students and teachers can help out if a
student gets stumped. If your class is small, have students write down several
words.

5. Erasing Meanness Activity:
 All of us can look back and remember our classmates for different things.
Mean words and unkind acts can cause pain that sticks with people for years,
and sometimes a lifetime. It can damage they way they feel about
themselves.
 Ask yourself, “What do I want to be remembered for in the future?”
 Erase meanness. Replace mean words with kind, positive words.

6. Erasing Meanness Activity:
 Teachers: Again, lead the way and erase one word and replace it with a kind
word in colored marker. Have every student come up again to the board, one
or two at a time, and erase one word and replace it with something positive.
These should all be done in colored markers to represent making the world a
brighter place.

7. Erasing Meanness…
 Sadly, we can never get rid of all of the meanness, but kindness and caring can
overwhelm the unkind. When you look at the board you see kindness and barely
notice the words of pain.
 Do your part. Do the right thing. Remember that everyone has value. We are all
different and unique. We are all trying to get through life the best we can.
KINDNESS. BEGINS. HERE.