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Kids Health: Dealing With Peer Pressure

For Students 2nd - 5th
Making decisions on your own is hard enough, but when other people get involved and try to pressure you one way or another it can be even harder. When people your own age try to influence how you act, it's called peer pressure. It's...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Life: Kabam! Comic Creator

For Students 6th - 8th
Students learn about making choices when dealing with bullies, peer pressure, and conflict, then create their own comics, using speech bubbles to write dialogue, in response to what they have learned. Requires Adobe Flash.
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Read Works

Read Works: Stop Bullying

For Students 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about bullying and laws requiring schools to have plans in place to prevent and deal with bullying. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Wosu Public Media: Are You Digi Fit?: Choose to Be Positive With Others Online

For Teachers K - 1st
This instructional activity teaches children how to behave appropriately when interacting with others online. They are guided in understanding how their words can be perceived by others online and how to deal with an online bully....
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Character Bully

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart addresses lessons that teach strategies for children to deal with bullies. There are also links to games on the CDC website.
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: My Time as Caz Hazard Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After continually getting into trouble at school for bullying, and being suspended for violence, Caz and her friend Amanda must deal with the suicide of a girl they had picked on. Many issues come into play in this novel - peer...
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It Gets Better Project: A Community for All Sexual Identities

For Students 9th - 10th
Surviving the teenage years is extremely difficult, but dealing with sexual identity makes it excruciatingly harder. Welcome to the "It Gets Better Project," a safe place created specifically for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender...
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Good Character: Teaching Guides for K 5

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Guides for teaching life skills that range from trustworthiness to conflict resolution. These guides were created for use with a set of videos, "The Six Pillars of Character," but most of the information and ideas can be used without...
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Orca Book Publishers: Exposure Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Exposure" by Patricia Murdoch deals with the issue of bullying. When Janice is being bullied by Dana and sees a way to get back at her, her best friend tires to help her handle things differently. This teacher's guide includes a book...
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Orca Book Publishers: 'Dog Walker' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In Dog Walker by Canadian author Karen Spafford-Fitz, Turk starts a dog walking business to make money and so his friends can meet girls. But then he must decide how to deal with a local bully who wants to be part of it. This teacher's...