Lesson plans, quick activities, a quiz and teaching guide designed to explore problematic online sexual behaviour with 9-12 year olds.
A range of resources to help educators explore problematic online sexual behaviour, including:
- Three lesson plans
- Quick activities
- An interactive quiz
- Teaching Guide
This toolkit explores problematic online sexual behaviour, with a focus on online sexual harassment e.g. bullying or harmful behaviour online based on gender or sexual orientation stereotypes, body-shaming, nudity and sexually explicit content.
In resources that are used or seen by children,we use the term ‘cyberbullying’ and refer to the specific type - cyberbullying that uses gender stereotypes, body shaming or nude images. This is because we know the words ‘sexual’ and ‘harassment’ may not be understood, used or appropriate for 9-12 year olds.
- To support educators in delivering high quality PSHE/PSE and relationships education lessons.
- To give children a safe space to discuss, explore and challenge peer to peer online sexual harassment e.g. bullying or harmful behaviour online based on gender or sexual orientation stereotypes, body-shaming, nudity and sexually explicit content.
- To discuss with children how they can be good friends online.
- To raise awareness of this issue to prevent it from becoming normalised.
- To give children the confidence to report unacceptable online behaviour.
This toolkit for 9-12 year olds follows on from the creation of the 'Step Up, Speak Up!' toolkit for 13-17 year olds. Feedback on these resources showed the need and desire for a toolkit to address this topic with a younger age group; this is where the beginnings of online sexual harassment were being noticed, and a need to challenge it early was identified.
Find more information about the project and its beginnings here.
Research report
Young people's experiences of online sexual harassment
This report presents findings from quantitative and qualitative research conducted as part of Project deSHAME with 13-17 year olds in Denmark, Hungary and the UK and designed to provide a unique insight into their experiences of online sexual harassment.
About Project deSHAME
Project deSHAME aims to increase reporting of online sexual harassment among minors and improve multi-sector cooperation in preventing and responding to this behaviour.
Research report
Young people's experiences of online sexual harassment
This report presents findings from quantitative and qualitative research conducted as part of Project deSHAME with 13-17 year olds in Denmark, Hungary and the UK and designed to provide a unique insight into their experiences of online sexual harassment.
Over 3000 young people across the three countries took part in the research as well as teachers, law enforcement and other professionals working with children.
Just a joke? Teaching Toolkit 2021 by Childnet International is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.