CATCH-UP FRIDAYS TEACHING GUIDE

I. General Overview
Catch-up Subject: Health Education Grade Level: 8
Quarterly Theme: Community Awareness Sub-theme: Bullying and its
impact on mental
health
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 PM Date: March 8, 2024
II. Session Outline
Session Title: “Bullying: Impact on mental Health”
Session At the end of the session, learners will be able to:
Objectives: a) Identify bullying and its impact on mental health.
b) Address bullying and its impact on mental health.
Key Concepts:  Bullying is when people repeatedly and intentionally use words
or actions against someone or a group of people to cause
distress and risk their wellbeing.
 It is a significant public health concern and social issue
worldwide.
 Bullying can happen anywhere. It can be in schools, at home,
at work, in online social spaces, via text messaging or via
email. It can be physical, verbal, emotional, and it also includes
messages, public statements and behavior online intended to
cause distress or harm (also known as cyberbullying).
 Identifying and Addressing bullying and its impact on mental is
like in CSS topic about OHS and Hazards in the workplace.
Mental Problems as under in Ergonomic Hazard should be
addressed properly to prevent its effect that will lead to worst
problems.
III. Teaching Strategies
Components Duration Activities and Procedures
Activity: Review about the Hazards in the workplace in
SMAW:
 Workers should know how to identify hazards in
the workplace.
 Hazards are considered as a potential source of
Introduction and
5 mins harm.
Warm-Up
 Ergonomic hazards are commonly seen in the
workplace.
 Addressing ergonomic hazard improperly will lead
to cause another health problems which is
psychological problems (mental health problems).
Concept 15 mins Activity: Wrinkled Heart
Exploration
Materials:
 Print a copy of the heart template on the different
colored papers — one each for the students in
your class.
 Write the following on your board: “Before you
speak, think and be smart. It’s hard to fix a
wrinkled heart!”
 Ask students to share what they think the saying
means.

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 Direct each student to create a small ball with

their heart template, and then ask them to smooth
it out.
 Explain how this relates back to the mean words
we sometimes say to one another — just like the
wrinkles that they can’t get out of the heart, they
won’t be able to take back those words.

Activity: Anti-Bullying Wrist Bands

Materials: Colored paper, glue and marker/ballpen

 With your partner, pledge not to bully your
Valuing 20 mins
classmates and take a stand against bullying is a
powerful way to have students take ownership of
the problem.

Activity: Message Chain
Materials: Colored paper/bond paper, glue,
marker/ballpen.
 Encourage your students to write an anti-bullying
Journal Writing 15 mins message on a strip of colored paper. Then secure
them together to show a united stand against
bullying. The links of the chain can be spread
across the classroom or across a common area in
the school.

Prepared By:

MARY JOYCE B. DORIMAN

Teacher I

Checked:

MARIVIC T. SEDAYON
Teacher-In-Charge

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Activity: Wrinkled Heart

The Wrinkled Heart Activity is a simple but effective way to show how bullying and
hurtful words can cause irreversible damage. Just like a human heart, once a
paper heart has been wrinkled, it’s almost impossible to return it to its flat and
smooth original state. This provides a great visual representation to teach students
that they can’t take back the mean things they might say to a classmate.
SAMPLE HEARTS:

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Activity: Anti-Bullying Wrist Bands

Enter personalized wristbands that students can create to show their friends and
family that they’re serious.

All you need for this simple activity is strips of construction paper or bond paper,
marker/ballpen and glue! After you’ve led a class discussion on what it means to
be against bullying, challenge students to write out their personal pledge on a
wristband, which they can then wear for the rest of the day.

SAMPLE WRISTBANDS:

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Activity: Message Chain

As much as we would like, we may not be able to completely eradicate bullying. But
we can help our students feel more empowered when they face cruelty from a
classmate or a mate, and that could help cut down on the rates of bullying
incidents in your school.

It turns out that when kids are equipped with strategies to respond to bullying,
children feel more confident and in control of their situation, and children who
know how to respond effectively are less likely to be targeted. What’s more, simply
educating our students about bullying can raise awareness and promote a culture
of empathy and respect in your class, helping to prevent bullying from occurring in
the first place.

Set time aside for a social and emotional lesson on what to do when you feel that
you are being bullied.

Make an anti-bullying paper chain with messages from students about the ways
they will work to prevent/address bullying in your school.

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