Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Private and Personal Information (3 5)
As students visit sites that request information about their identity, they learn to adopt a critical inquiry process that empowers them to protect themselves and their families from identity theft. They learn the difference between...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Trillion Dollar Footprint: Grades 6 8
Students learn that they have a digital footprint, which can be searched, shared, and seen by a large, invisible audience. They then learn that they can take some control over their digital footprint based on what they post online. They...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: You've Won a Prize!: Grades 3 5
Students learn what spam is, the forms it takes, and then identify strategies for dealing with it. They compare junk mail to spam, learn tips for handling spam safely, and use those tips to answer questions on the student handout about a...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Follow the Digital Trail: K 2
Students 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.
Common Sense Media
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...
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Fbi Youth: Grades 6th 12th
Explore the FBI by joining agents as they investigate crimes around the world, following a case through the FBI Lab, look at a day in the life of an FBI agent, and more!
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American Academy of Pediatrics
Home page of a professional organization of physicians specializing in child health and safety.
Media Smarts
Media Awareness Network: Allies and Aliens: A Mission in Critical Thinking
This interactive module for Grades 7 and 8 is designed to increase students' ability to recognize bias, prejudice, and hate propaganda on the Internet and in other media. Includes an extensive teacher's guide.
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Connect Safely: Connect Safely: Smart Socializing Starts Here
This resource offers students and adults information in order to help young people socialize safely online.
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Be Web Aware : Social Networking
An informative article looking at teens and social networking. What is it? What should parents know and the need to encourage privacy issues in these open forums of social interaction.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Digital Citizenship: Respect
Learning module on digital citizenship and respect in which students learn about etiquette, access and law related to digital media technologies. Comprehensive learning materials included.
Edutopia
Edutopia: Ideas for Digital Citizenship Pbl Projects
Explore ideas for project-based learning with a focus on digital citizenship skills.
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Canadian Centre for Child Protection: Zoe and Molly Online: Guess What!?!
Test your online (and offline) safety knowledge with some questions from Zoe, Molly, and their friends.
Media Smarts
Media Awareness Network: Hoax? Scholarly Research? Opinion?
When researching on the Internet, how critical of an observer are you? This site provides three group exercises to help you determine if a website is a hoax, scholarly research, or personal opinion.
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Azoomee: E Safety Lesson 1: How to Be Kind
A lesson about how to identify kindness online. [2:09]
Get Safe Online
Get Safe Online: Holiday and Travel Booking
It is very convenient to make travel plans using online resources. However, it can also be risky unless it is done carefully. This article provides guidelines on how to make online travel plans safely.
Get Safe Online
Get Safe Online: Safe Social Networking
Social networking sites are very popular. They also expose people to certain risks, such as online bullying, loss of privacy, cyber stalking and other problems. This resource describes some of the risks with social networking sites and...
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute: Minutes From Me: First Steps in Browsing
Using the internet for research can be a bit overwhelming for young students. This site shows how to create some simple web pages that can be used to teach young students how to best navigate the internet for research.
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute: Minutes From Me: Build a "Links to Click" Web Page
Teachers are sometimes reluctant to turn students loose on the internet. This site explains how to create a simple webpage using HTML that guides the students to the intended sites.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Cybersafety
This lesson is designed to increase student awareness of the concept that there are dangers associated with Internet usage. This is a Commerce and Information Technology lesson plan. This lesson was adapted from iSafe.org and...
Smithsonian Institution
Tween Tribune
This current events publication is for the eight- to fourteen-year age group. News articles that would interest this age group are posted and students, once signed up themselves, can comment on them. Teachers can customize student...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Feeling on Display
Are girls and guys judged differently when they post photos online? Young scholars explore the pressures many teen girls and boys face to keep up appearances online. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Chart It: Grades 6 8
Students will learn to assess people's intentions and the impact of their words and actions, both positive and negative, in online environments. Requires free membership.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Advertising Detectives
Students learn to recognize five different kinds of online ads prevalent on children's sites. They learn how to distinguish advertising content from other content on a website. Free membership required.
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