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Common Sense Media: Education: Build Your Ideal Community: Grades 6 8
Middle schoolers will consider the characteristics of positive online communities that promote responsibility and respect. Requires free membership.
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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.
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Common Sense Media: Education: Going Places Safely: K 2
Students learn that they can go to exciting places online, but they need to follow certain rules to remain safe. By taking a virtual field trip, students experience the power of the Internet to take them to places they might not be able...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Right Sites: Grades 3 5
Students explore the distinctions between the quality and appeal of a children's informational website. They use both types of criteria to rate and compare children's informational websites.
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Common Sense Media: Education: Rings of Responsibility: Grades 3 5
Students 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 order to...
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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...
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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...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Staying Safe Online (K 2)
Students understand that they should stay safe online by choosing websites that are good for them to visit, and avoiding sites that are not appropriate for them. They learn about the similarities of staying safe in the real world and...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Sticky Sites: Grades 6 8
Learners learn about some of the features that attract and retain visitors to websites. They also learn to recognize the commercial motives that sometimes lie behind these "sticky" sites. Free membership required.
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Common Sense Media: Education: Strategic Searching: Grades 6 8
Learners learn that to conduct effective and efficient online searches, they must use a variety of searching strategies rather than relying on a single source. Students learn a five-step method for planning and carrying out an online...
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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...
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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...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Super Digital Citizen: Grades 3 5
Students 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: Sites I Like: K 2
Students explore and evaluate an informational website for children. They discover that people's opinions about the quality and usefulness of a site will vary. As a class, students view a website and identify features that they like and...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Digital Life 101: Grades 6 8
Students are introduced to the 24/7, social nature of digital media and technologies, and gain basic vocabulary and knowledge for discussing the media landscape. Requires free membership.
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Safe Online Talk: Grades 6 8
While acknowledging the benefits of online talk and messaging, students consider scenarios in which they may feel uncomfortable, or may encounter inappropriate behavior on the Internet. Requires free membership.
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: The Key to Keywords: Grades 3 5
Students learn strategies to increase the accuracy of their keyword searches. They compare the number and kinds of sites obtained and make inferences about the effectiveness of the strategies. Free membership required.
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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.
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Power Words: Grades 4 5
Students consider that they may encounter online messages from other kids that can make them feel angry, hurt, sad, or fearful. They explore ways to handle cyberbullying and how to respond in the face of upsetting language online. Free...
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Common Sense Media: Lesson: Sending Email: K 2 Grade
Students explore how they can use email to communicate with real people within their schools, families, and communities. Requires free membership.