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Common Sense Media: Connecting With Digital Audiences
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Common Sense Education: Identifying High Quality Sites
Learn how to "test before you trust" the sites and information found on the Web in this lesson plan and student handout from Common Sense Education. Assessing what you find on the Web is an essential skill for today's middle schoolers....
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Logging Up Reading Mileage
Students will select and enjoy their own range of contemporary and historical texts, display a knowledge of different genre and their particular content, and identify literary aspects of chosen texts for sustained silent reading. They...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: The All Purpose Multimedia Poetry Beast
For this activity students explore writing and performing poetry in various forms: writing poetry, choral readings, mime, and preparing a multi-media presentation by designing a web page.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Gender Stereotypes Online: Grades 6 8
Learners are introduced to the concept of gender stereotypes, in both an online and offline context. Students identify and discuss gender stereotypes in the "Dress Up Your Avatar" feature of a kids' virtual world. Free membership required.
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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: Trillion Dollar Footprint: Grades 6 8
Learners 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: Build Your Ideal Community: Grades 6 8
Students will consider the characteristics of positive online communities that promote responsibility and respect. Requires free membership.
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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.
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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...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Cracking the Gender Code: Grades 6 8
Students explore "boy codes" and "girl codes," and discuss the extent to which they shape people's online identities and relationships. Requires free membership.
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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: Strategic Searching: Grades 6 8
Students 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...
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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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: 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...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Keep It Private (K 2nd Grade)
This lesson plan for young young scholars will teach them the basics of staying safe online. Students review what information is private and should not be shared without a trusted adult's permission. Young scholars then view sites that...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Private and Personal Information (3 5)
As students visit sites that request information about their identity, they learn to adopt a critical inquiry process that empowers them to protect themselves and their families from identity theft. They learn the difference between...
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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...
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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...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: A Creator's Responsibilities: Grades 6 8
Students reflect on their responsibilities as creators and users of creative work. Requires Adobe Reader.
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Common Sense Media: Education: Using Keywords (K 2)
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students understand that keyword searching is an effective way to locate information on the Internet. They learn how to select keywords to produce the best search results to meet their goals. Then they...