Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: We the Digital Citizens
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this instructional activity, 2nd graders explore the amazing possibilities that come with using technology. They'll also learn from the Digital Citizens, who take a pledge to be safe, responsible,...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Super Digital Citizen: Grades 3 5
Learners explore what it means to be responsible and respectful to their offline and online communities as a step toward learning how to be good digital citizens. Students create digital superheroes who exhibit exemplary attributes and...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Who Is in Your Online Community?
[Free Registration/Login Required] By learning the Rings of Responsibility, 2nd graders explore how the Internet connects us to people in our community and throughout the world. Help students to think critically about the different ways...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Digital Citizenship: Grades 3 5
Students will establish group norms to create a positive online community that promotes responsible and respectful digital behavior within their classroom. Requires free membership.
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Common Sense Media: Education: Rings of Responsibility: Grades 3 5
Young scholars explore what it means to take on responsibilities in both their offline and online communities as a way to learn how to be good digital citizens. Students sit in circles, which depict the "Rings of Responsibility," in...
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Learn the Net: Internet Lesson Plans for Teachers
This resource provides lesson plans for teachers.
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson Plan: Powerful Passwords
Students learn the benefits of using passwords and then play a board game to discover some strategies for creating and keeping secure passwords. Requires free membership.
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Pause and Think
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, the Digital Citizens teach learners how to be safe, responsible, and respectful online. Includes slideshow, video, lesson plan, song and lyrics, poster, coloring book, and resources for...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Digital Trails
[Free Registration/Login Required] Does what you do online always stay online? Students learn that the information they share online leaves a digital footprint or "trail." Depending on how they manage it, this trail can be big or small,...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: That's Private!
[Free Registration/Login Required] Staying safe online is a lot like staying safe in the real world. By helping a Digital Citizen sign up for a new app, 2nd graders learn about the kinds of information they should keep to themselves when...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Media Balance Is Important
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students consider the feelings of themselves and others when making decisions about when, where, and how much to use technology. Includes slideshow, video, lesson plan, song and lyrics,...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Device Free Moments
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, 2nd graders learn when it's appropriate to use technology and when it's not, and practice making family rules for device-free time at home. Includes lesson plan, slideshow, student...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: How Technology Makes You Feel
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson challenges kids to pay attention to their feelings while using tech. With an engaging emoji game, 1st graders learn practical strategies for managing their feelings - good, bad, and...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Follow the Digital Trail: K 2
Young scholars learn that the information they put online leaves a digital footprint or "trail." This trail can be big or small, helpful or hurtful, depending on how they manage it. Free membership required.
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Common Sense Media: Cyber Smart! Student Curriculum Lesson: Can You Hack It? [Pdf]
Students learn that computers and electronic files are property and explore the reasons for, consequences, and ethics of teen hacking. This ISTE-aligned lesson plan for Grades 6-8 includes student activity and Home Connection sheets....
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Putting a Stop to Online Meanness
[Free Registration/Login Required] The internet is filled with all kinds of interesting people, but sometimes, some of them can be mean to each other. With this role play, help your students understand why it's often easier to be mean...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Expanding Narratives Using Media: A Digital Notebook
The resources, tips, and professional development opportunities shared throughout this digital notebook are rooted in skills supporting critical media literacy. Media literacy education emphasizes skills of inquiry and expression and...
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Common Sense Media: Keeping Games Fun and Friendly
Social interaction is part of what makes online gaming so popular and engaging for kids. But online communication can come with some risks. This lesson helps students understand how to keep their gaming experiences fun, healthy, and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Digital Divide: A Data Analysis Activity Using Subtotals
A lesson plan that includes a PowerPoint learning module for students. The purpose of the lesson plan is to teach how to use Excel to analyze a large amount of data, in this case from the US Census. The example being used is the...
Digital History
Digital History: The Stamp Act and Virtual Representation [Pdf]
This lesson plan is from a unit on events leading to the American revolution. It highlights the Stamp Act, and the British concept of 'virtual representation' where a member of government was believed to represent every citizen, not just...
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Common Sense Media: Education: My Creative Work (K 2)
Students learn the basics - title, name, and date - for crediting creative work. They discuss the importance of citing work, as well as recognizing that they should give themselves proper credit so that others can attribute their work...
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Digizen: Cyberbullying: Let's Fight It Together
Video tells the story of a young teenager who is subjected to cyberbullying-repeated hostile, harmful, and harassing attacks directed at individuals though technological means (Internet, mobile phones, social networking sites)....
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Common Sense Media: Finding My Media Balance
Helping kids learn what makes different media choices healthy or not is a good start. But how do we help them actually make responsible choices in the real world? Help your students create a personalized media plan. Students will reflect...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creating a Safe Persona on the Internet
Contains plans for five lessons that explore naming conventions and safety on the internet. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection...