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Unit Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Media Balance Is Important

For Teachers K - 1st
[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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Website
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Device Free Dinner

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Several resources to help parents and kids understand and communicate about limiting device use during family meals and social get-togethers.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Wosu Public Media: Are You Digi Fit?: Ways to Unplug: Tips to Stay Balanced

For Teachers K - 1st
This instructional activity teaches learners how to make good choices with their devices and games.
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Lesson Plan
Childnet

Childnet: Screen Time & Healthy Balance [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
These quick activities around balancing screen time are designed for use with 7- to 11-year-olds but can be easily adapted for other ages.
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Article
Other

Her Emobility: Smart Transportation: Smart Transport Systems: An Intro

For Students 9th - 10th
In large cities, transport is becoming a growing challenge, both for commuters and for city officials who want to improve efficiency, reduce pollution, and reduce frustration for drivers and commuters. Smart transport systems use new...
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Article
University of California

Greater Good Science Center: What Makes Technology Good or Bad for Us?

For Students 9th - 10th
How technology affects our well-being partly depends on whether it strengthens our relationships. This article provides a brief academic look at how technology use may be impacting our relationships with one another.
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Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Technology Its Benefits and Negative Effects [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students consider advances in technology over the past several hundred years and the positive and negative impacts these advances have had on human beings and the natural world. Note: The video referred to in the lesson...
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Article
Other

Bctv: Technological Influence on Society

For Students 9th - 10th
A short article that discusses how technology has helped society in the areas of learning and communication and the negative impacts that mobile technology has had. (Published Nov 7, 2019)