Media Smarts
Media Smarts: Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
Media Smarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for learners. For this lesson, young students will learn about online advertisements targeted to children. Learners will play on online game; they will create an advertisement for...
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Digital History
Digital History: Mc Carthy and Mc Carthyism [Pdf]
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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Learn the Net: Internet Lesson Plans for Teachers
This resource provides lesson plans for teachers.
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Kid Citizen: Congress and Child Labor
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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Kid Citizen: Snap a Photo: Agent of Change
How did photographers help convince Congress to pass child labor laws? This module explores some of Lewis Hine's photographs that exposed children's working conditions and advocated for child labor laws to protect them. In this tutorial,...
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Kid Citizen: Capture the Flag
By investigating primary sources displaying the American flag, students will explore the various ways people use the flag to show characteristics such as pride, loyalty, and unity for the nation. In this tutorial, students will engage in...
Edutopia
Edutopia: Social Media Guidelines
Read about the ways in which educators can create social media guidelines that work to keep students safe.
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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.
Digital History
Digital History: A Bill of Rights? [Pdf]
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...
Digital History
Digital History: The Stamp Act and Virtual Representation [Pdf]
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...
Digital History
Digital History: By What Right [Pdf]
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'...
Digital History
Digital History: The Age of Constitution Writing [Pdf]
See how colonial and state constitutions differed and how the idea of a social contract between a government and its citizens is reflected in the state constitutions. The second half of this site gives an abbreviated text of the Articles...
Digital History
Digital History: The Age of Social Change [Pdf]
Find the text of James Madison's tenth Federalist paper in which he expresses the idea of how government can provide the need for stability that citizens require. [pdf]
Digital History
Digital History: Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and Welfare [Pdf]
After reading a brief history of Social Security and its inception in the United States during the Great Depression, find out about the various programs that provide a social safety net to its citizens. See how these programs are funded,...
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Project Tomorrow
Here, educators can read continuously updated reports on innovations in education. This organization is committed to ensuring that "today's students are well prepared to be tomorrow's innovators, leaders and engaged citizens of the...
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Project Tomorrow
Here, educators can read continuously updated reports on innovations in education. This organization is committed to ensuring that "today's students are well prepared to be tomorrow's innovators, leaders and engaged citizens of the...
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Cic Online: Cyberbullying: Identify and Respond [Pdf]
With this resource, learn how to know when cyberbullying is happening and how to confront the problem. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
Edutopia
Edutopia: Anti Social Media: Spirit Day: Educators and Parents: Cyberbullying
Learn how educators and parents join together on Spirit Day to prevent online bullying of LGBT youth.
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Online Safety: It Starts With You [Pdf]
More and more, kids are using the internet for amazing things like research, entertainment, to connect with friends, and more. But without clear guidelines, the digital world can be a tough place to navigate. These lessons are designed...
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Wise Kids: Online Safety Tips for Kids
A good list of rules to govern your Internet use, with explanations for each. It also includes an Internet Safety Agreement that covers the same rules and that teachers or parents can print out and ask students to sign.
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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)....
Digital History
Digital History: The Boston Massacre [Pdf]
This excellent recounting of the days that led up the Boston Massacre and the massacre itself fills in a lot of information that is lacking in textbooks because of space contraints. Read about the British soldiers' and the colonists'...
Digital History
Digital History: Hamilton and Jefferson the Men and Their Philosophies [Pdf]
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton played a huge role not only in crafting important documents in U.S. history, but also by serving as secretaries in George Washington's first cabinet. Read about their diametrically opposing...
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Childnet International: Digizen: Social Networking
Most students participate in social networking applications such as Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter. This site presents the benefits and risks of using social networking tools in education. The site also presents examples of successful...