Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Chart It: Grades 6 8
Middle schoolers 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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What Students Need to Know: Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
This lesson unit published by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario has four activities that explore the concept of privacy and prompt the discussion of privacy issues in students' own lives. The lessons refer to privacy...
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Wosu Public Media: Are You Digi Fit?: Who Are You Online? [Pdf]
This is a brief K-4 lesson summary that links to a Common Sense Media slideshow. It looks at what a digital footprint is and how it can be positive or negative and influence how people see you now or in the future. The slideshow can be...
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission: You Are Here
In this interactive mall environment, students learn how to make smart decisions as consumers. Whether shopping for clothes, choosing the best food deal, searching for a job or buying a cellphone, students will learn how to recognize...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Privacy Rules: Grades 3 5
Students learn that children's websites must protect their private information. They learn to identify these secure sites by looking for their privacy policies and privacy seals of approval. They discuss a scenario in which their private...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Secret Sharer Grades 6 8
Students look beyond protecting their own privacy to respecting the privacy of others online. Students read and analyze case studies about students who have compromised the privacy of someone else online by tagging, copying, and...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Strong Passwords (3 5)
Students learn how to create secure passwords in order to protect their private information and accounts online. They learn tips for creating safe passwords. They explore scenarios in which two characters choose passwords, and they use...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Scams and Schemes: Grades 6 8
Students learn strategies for guarding against identity theft and scams that try to access their private information online. Students learn what identity theft is, what kinds of information identity thieves want, and what can be done...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: What's Cyberbullying? Grades 3 5
Students discuss positive and negative aspects of interacting with others online. They learn the definition of cyberbullying and help the teacher fill in a Venn diagram that compares in-person bullying with cyberbullying. They then read...
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.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Screen Out the Mean: K 2
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn that children sometimes can act like bullies when they are online. They explore what cyberbullying means and what they can do when they encounter it. Students recognize that it is...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Trade Secrets: Classroom Content
Trade Secrets reveals how the public's right to know the truth about the thousands of chemicals that surround us has been compromised. The classroom resources offered here are designed to help you use this module, other material on the...
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Computer Lab Rules and Technology Ethics
Lesson plan that reinforces computer lab rules and technology ethics as students create newsletters or presentations.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: The Power of Digital Footprints
Our digital footprints can impact our future. What others find about us online shapes how they see us or feel about us. Help your students learn about their digital footprint and the steps they can take to shape what others find and see...
Information Fluency
Imsa 21st Century Information Fluency (21 Cif) Portal
The 21st Century Information Fluency (21CIF) Portal was developed by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) to improve Internet search skills for the advancement of information literacy. The goal of this project is to help...
Information Fluency
Imsa 21st Century Information Fluency (21 Cif) Portal
The 21st Century Information Fluency (21CIF) Portal was developed by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) to improve Internet search skills for the advancement of information literacy. The goal of this project is to help...
Common Sense Media
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.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Who's Looking at Your Digital Footprint?
Our digital footprints can have a powerful impact on our future. This can be a scary thought, given that what's in our digital footprint isn't always in our control. Teach students that digital footprints are an opportunity to showcase...
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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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The Awesome Library: Technology
Awesome Library organizes carefully reviewed web resources. The Technology index explores a variety of resources such as: lesson plans, current events, integrating technology, technology items, and technology tools.