Throughout October, use this four-week activity kit in K-12 classrooms or other youth settings. The kit features theme weeks, classroom projects, and student engagement to promote kindness, acceptance, and inclusion to prevent bullying.
Organize the Materials
- Provide everyone with a free student activity book; download and print, or share through another method of your choosing.
- Create a bulletin board (see example ) or order posters to showcase the weekly themes and group projects.
Optional: Register your classroom or group as a "Champion against bullying".
Engage youth each week with activities that support the weekly theme!
Learn how kindness, acceptance, and inclusion can help prevent bullying.
Action Items:
Show the bullying prevention slideshow and provide the follow-up quizzes for elementary or middle and high school students.
Student Activity Book:
- Provide an overview of National Bullying Prevention Month along with weekly themes. (Page 2) .
- Define unity, kindness, acceptance, and inclusion using words, art, or music. (Page 3) .
- Encourage youth to write down acts of kindness, acceptance, and inclusion that they see and where they see them happen. Note: This can be done throughout the month. (Page 4) .
Classroom Poster or Bulletin Board:
As a group, define—using content from the page 3 exercise in the student activity book—unity, kindness, acceptance, and inclusion using words, art, or music.
Record ideas for wearing and sharing orange on Unity Day.
Action Items:
Review the Unity Day Guide , as well as the supplemental guide for virtual activation . Then, think through ideas for wearing and sharing orange, such as items to wear, group projects, art, and other activities.
Student Activity Book:
Encourage youth to think through and write down their ideas for participating in Unity Day. (Page 5) .
Classroom Poster or Bulletin Board:
As a group, record ideas—using content from the page 5 exercise in the student activity book—to GO ORANGE for Unity Day. As a group, decide which activities you’d like to implement for Unity Day (week 3).
Gather in-person or online on Unity Day to share your efforts
and show your commitment.
Action Items:
Engage in your planned activities from week two.
Student Activity Book:
Complete one or more of the acrostic templates. (Page 6) .
Classroom Poster or Bulletin Board:
Invite everyone to add their own custom mark, such as an emoji, picture, thumbprint, or signature.
Determine ways to continue creating a kinder, more inclusive,
and more accepting world all year.
Action Items:
Ask students to share something they learned during National Bullying Prevention Month.
Student Activity Book:
Classroom Poster or Bulletin Board:
As a group, record ideas—using content from the page 7 exercise in the student activity book—for continuing bullying prevention efforts throughout the year.
