NBPM Student Activity Kit
Throughout October, use this four-week activity kit in K-12 classrooms or other youth settings. The kit features weekly themes, classroom projects, and student engagement activities 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.
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 . 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, inclusive, and more accepting world all year
Action items:
Ask students to share something they learned during National Bullying Prevention Month.
Student activity book:
- Encourage youth to complete the personal reflection about actions taken during the month and determine steps they can take throughout the year. (Page 7).
- Sign the Create a World Without Bullying Pledge . (Page 8).
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.
