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Cyberbullying

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By Nik Peachey

Vocabulary

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• What is cyberbullying?
• What do cyberbullies do?
• How common is cyberbullying?
• How big a problem do you think cyberbullying is?
• What do you think causes cyberbullying?
• Where do you think it happens?
• What type of person do you think becomes a cyberbully?
• How can you protect yourself from cyberbullying

Discussion

Cyberbullying

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Reading Task

Cyberbullying

1. There are 8 types of cyberbullying.
2. 72% of teenagers are bullied every day.
3. 95% of teens who see cyberbullying online ignore it.
4. The most common platform for cyberbullying is Instagram.
5. The majority of teen victims worry that their parents will get involved.
6. 46% of cyberbullying victims feel depressed.
7. Less than 50% of parents are aware that their teens are being cyberbullied.

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Your Response

• Which of the 8 types of cyberbullying do you think is worst?
• Why do you think others join in when they see cyberbullying happening?
• Which gender do you think suffers most often from cyberbullying?
• Why do you think teenage victims find it hard to tell their parents?
• How would you support a friend who is being cyberbullied?
• How difficult do you think it is to catch a cyberbully?
• What action should schools and parents take when they identify a cyberbully?
• How can cyberbullying be prevented?

Discussion Task

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Research

Find out:

• How cyberbullies can be caught
• What laws exist to protect people from cyberbullying
• What penalties and punishments exist for cyberbullying

Create a short presentation to make people more aware of cycberbullying.

• A definition of cyberbullying
• The most common forms
• The problems caused by cyberbullying
• Where cyberbullying occurs
• How cyberbullies can be caught
• Penalties for cyberbullying

Include a slide on each of these topics:

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Research 2

Create a questionnaire to find out about people's experience and opinions of cyberbullying.Write questions to find out:

• If they have been bullied
• Whether they know someone who has been bullied
• Which forms of bullying they have experienced
• What they did about it
• What they think can be done to protect people
• What punishments there should be for cyberbullying

• Google Forms

Create your questionnaire using:

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