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Unit Plan
Other

Kid Citizen: Congress and Child Labor

For Students 3rd - 5th
Congress is made up of a group of people who work together to improve the quality of lives of citizens throughout the nation. Long ago Congress decided that it was important to pass labor laws to protect children. Why did they think that...
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eBook
Digital History

Digital History: Mc Carthy and Mc Carthyism [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about one of the truly black eyes in American history when Senator Joseph McCarthy was able to make false accusations against politicians and ordinary citizens alike, claiming they had communist leanings and were enemies of the...
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Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Who's Looking at Your Digital Footprint?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
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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Activity
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Global Citizens: Myrindah's Page

For Students 3rd - 7th
Through links all over the globe, we will create a new sense of global citizens who have pride in this beautiful planet and tolerance of all people.
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Article
Edutopia

Edutopia: How to Teach Internet Safety to Younger Elementary Students

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn ways in which teachers can impart internet safety skills to young students.
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Article
Edutopia

Edutopia: Social Media Guidelines

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Read about the ways in which educators can create social media guidelines that work to keep students safe.
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Website
Other

Connect Safely: Connect Safely: Smart Socializing Starts Here

For Teachers K - 1st
This resource offers students and adults information in order to help young people socialize safely online.
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Handout
Other

Albury Local Internet: Internet Netiquette

For Students 9th - 10th
A list of general do's and don'ts for Internet etiquette for e-mail and chat.
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Handout
Other

Kids' Turn Central: Netiquette: Minding Your P's and Q's Online in Chat Rooms

For Students 3rd - 8th
An article with general tips on how to behave when participating in online chat rooms.
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Article
Other

Thales Group: Digital Dividends: The Positive Effects of Id Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides a pro-business perspective on the adoption of digital identification of citizens by governments around the world. It looks at how governments can better serve their citizens by using this technology, its economic...
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Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set uses documents and photographs to tell the story of The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, written in August 1789.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Expanding Narratives Using Media: A Digital Notebook

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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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Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Connecting With Digital Audiences

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Code-switching is the action of changing your language, behavior, or appearance based on who you're with or where you are. In this lesson, students will apply the idea of code-switching to how they use phones and other devices in and...
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Interactive
Media Smarts

Media Awareness Network: Privacy Pirates

For Students K - 1st
Sail away on the open seas in order to protect your online privacy from the privacy pirates. This animated game helps students become responsible digital citizens as they learn how to keep their personal information secure.
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Interactive
Other

Think U Know: Cyber Cafe

For Students 5th - 6th
The Cyber Cafe from Think U Know offers a safe and interactive environment for students to learn and practice responsible digital citizenship. Learn how to safely use email, social media, and search the web.
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Online Course
Code.org

Code.org: Cs Fundamentals: Course D

For Students 2nd - 5th
Students develop their understanding of loops, conditionals, and events. Beyond coding, students learn about digital citizenship.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: A Bill of Rights? [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
There was no Bill of Rights attached to the original Constitution, but it was a topic of discussion. Read a reconstruction of speeches of delegates to the Constitutional Convention who debated for and against the inclusion of a way to...
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: War Fever and Antiwar Protests

For Students 9th - 10th
What started out as a prowar inclination of American citizens at the beginning of the Mexican War soon deteriorated. Read about the opposition of politicians, clergymen, and intellectuals to the reasoning for the war, and later for the...
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Website
Other

Pbs: Media Shift: Your Guide to the Digital Media Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website is a guide to the way the new media-blogs, RSS, podcasting, citizen journalism, wikis, news aggregators, and video repositories-are changing the way we take in the news of our world. Click on the underlined words to...
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Handout
Digital History

Digital History: Viva La Raza!

For Students 9th - 10th
This Digital History site provides an informative overview of the Mexican American civil rights movement in America.
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Article
Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Your Connected Life: A Teen's Guide to Life Online [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This guide is designed to help students who are just entering high school balance the demands their offline life with their digital one. The guide offers practical advice on a variety of activities kids like to do online, including...
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: Mexican Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the terrible treatment of Mexican American citizens and immigrants during the Hoover presidency. See how they received some help with the New Deal.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: The Stamp Act and Virtual Representation [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Website
Digital History

Digital History: By What Right [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two opposing philosophies concerning the relationship between government and its citizens were expressed by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke in the 17th century. Compare these two philosophies and see how they were related to the colonists'...