All lessons and materials are provided by Common Sense Media at http://www.commonsensemedia.org
All Family Tip Sheets embedded for grades K-4 can be found here.
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Kindergarten
1. Essential Question: How do I go to places safely online?
1. Essential Question: How do I go to places safely online?
Send home: Talking Safely Online Family Tip Sheet
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Send home: Talking Safely Online Family Tip Sheet
TRAVELING IN PERSON
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TRAVELING ONLINE
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3. Take a virtual field trip
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra: This website provides children with a virtual tour of the concert hall and introduces them to musicians and various instruments in the orchestra
Destination Modern Art: This interactive, kid-directed site from New York’s Museum of Modern Art takes children on a virtual tour of the museum, its artwork, and the artists.
San Diego Zoo: This website includes galleries of animal photographs, slide shows, and live “animal cams” of the residents of the San Diego Zoo in California.
Discussion: Online safety rules. What new things did students see? Compare/contrast field trip online and in-person.
Destination Modern Art: This interactive, kid-directed site from New York’s Museum of Modern Art takes children on a virtual tour of the museum, its artwork, and the artists.
San Diego Zoo: This website includes galleries of animal photographs, slide shows, and live “animal cams” of the residents of the San Diego Zoo in California.
Discussion: Online safety rules. What new things did students see? Compare/contrast field trip online and in-person.
4. Assessment
Students should be able to answer:
What rules do we have for visiting a new place in real life?
What rules do we have for visiting places online?
5. Create
Students can use Pixie to create a drawing of their favorite place or thing they visited online, or students can download the "My Favorite Places" handout if they prefer to draw with crayons.
Students should be able to answer:
What rules do we have for visiting a new place in real life?
What rules do we have for visiting places online?
5. Create
Students can use Pixie to create a drawing of their favorite place or thing they visited online, or students can download the "My Favorite Places" handout if they prefer to draw with crayons.
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First Grade
1. Essential Question: How can you give credit to your own creative work?
1. Essential Question: How can you give credit to your own creative work?
Send home: Respecting Creative Work Family Tip Sheet
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2. Introduction:
3. Define Publish
4. Create: Distribute Time Capsule Self-Portrait Student Handout OR visit http://www.picassohead.com/
- Explain what a time capsule is and that you are trying to figure out whose artwork is inside of it.
- Display some drawings and ask, Who do you think drew this picture?
- Define credit and original.
- Explain who the artist is and have artist sign original sketches.
3. Define Publish
4. Create: Distribute Time Capsule Self-Portrait Student Handout OR visit http://www.picassohead.com/
5. Credit: Make sure students credit their creative work. Consider including:
6. Time Capsule: Lock their work in a time capsule and unlock it in the future.
7. Assessment: How can you tell who created a piece of artwork? How did you give yourself credit on your self-portraits? Why is it important to give yourself credit on your artwork?
- Title of work
- Name of author
- Date of completion
6. Time Capsule: Lock their work in a time capsule and unlock it in the future.
7. Assessment: How can you tell who created a piece of artwork? How did you give yourself credit on your self-portraits? Why is it important to give yourself credit on your artwork?
Second Grade
1. Essential Question: How can I make sure I'm showing respect online and through emails?
1. Essential Question: How can I make sure I'm showing respect online and through emails?
Send home: Effective Email Communication Family Tip Sheet
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2. Introduction: Define respectful.
3. Discuss & Record: What are some examples of how to be clear and respectful to others when you are talking in school? What would happen if it was okay to say mean things to other people? What would happen if we didn’t take turns talking, or if we were allowed to shout in class?
4. Define tone and play the Mindful Messaging video below.
3. Discuss & Record: What are some examples of how to be clear and respectful to others when you are talking in school? What would happen if it was okay to say mean things to other people? What would happen if we didn’t take turns talking, or if we were allowed to shout in class?
4. Define tone and play the Mindful Messaging video below.
5. Discussion: Same text message...all with different meaning and tone. Discuss hearing a sentence aloud vs. typed.
Whatever :(
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Whatever !!!
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WHATEVER
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6. Email Edit: Students can follow rules to make sure they are being clear and polite when they send messages electronically, especially through email.
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7. Assessment:
- What are some differences between saying something aloud to someone and writing it in an email?
- What are some ways to be respectful when sending an email, text, or IM?
- What should you do before you send an email, text, or IM?
- Have students complete the Show Respect handout (2 pages)
Third Grade
1. Essential Question: What’s the difference between Internet friends and in-person friends?
1. Essential Question: What’s the difference between Internet friends and in-person friends?
2. Send Home: Talking Safely Online Family Tip Sheet
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3. CHALLENGE students to explain the differences between communicating with friends they know from school
and their neighborhood and communicating with people they have never met in person
4. Discussion: Can you ever really know if an online-only friend is male or female? Can you know for sure how old an online only friend is?
5. DISTRIBUTE the The Right Answer Student Handout for students to answer independently OR generate your own Fake iPhone Chat message at http://iphonefaketext.com/ (recommended)
and their neighborhood and communicating with people they have never met in person
4. Discussion: Can you ever really know if an online-only friend is male or female? Can you know for sure how old an online only friend is?
5. DISTRIBUTE the The Right Answer Student Handout for students to answer independently OR generate your own Fake iPhone Chat message at http://iphonefaketext.com/ (recommended)
6. Discussion: Why may it be easier to share school problems with an online-only friend than an in-person, face-to-face friend? Have you ever pretended to be someone you are not? If so, when? What’s private information?
7. DISTRIBUTE the Chatting Safety Checklist Student Handout and after students fill out, have them revisit their responses to The Right Answer Student Handout asking "Would you change your advice to Sita?"
7. DISTRIBUTE the Chatting Safety Checklist Student Handout and after students fill out, have them revisit their responses to The Right Answer Student Handout asking "Would you change your advice to Sita?"
8. Assessment: How are online-only friends and in-person, face-to-face friends different? What kind of information should you not share with online-only friends? What should you do when someone you don’t know asks for private information?
Fourth Grade
1. Essential Question: What should you do when someone uses mean or scary language on the Internet?
1. Essential Question: What should you do when someone uses mean or scary language on the Internet?
2. Send home: Cyberbullying Family Tip Sheet
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3. Discussion: Share ways students enjoy going online and using digital media. What are your favorite websites, if any? What are your favorite video games, if any? Who do you stay in touch with through cell phones and the Internet?
4. DISTRIBUTE the Words Can Hurt Student Handout. Students answer and share responses with class.
4. DISTRIBUTE the Words Can Hurt Student Handout. Students answer and share responses with class.
- Discuss: Have you seen mean messages sent to you or others online? Tell us about it, but do not use real names. What are the reasons the person might have texted “You’re weird”? How did the partner feel who was called weird? Why might you feel differently if you could see the person?
5. Crossing the Line Activity
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6. Talk and Take Action: Discuss the following ideas about what they can do when faced with cyberbullying: cooling down, finding help or a friend/trusted adult, ignore bully, and keep copy of communications with bully.
7. DISTRIBUTE the Talk and Take Action Student Handout (2 pages) OR have students use the web site Make Beliefs Comix to create an online cartoon depticting a situation when they have to respond to an instance of inappropriate online communication. www.makebeliefscomix.com (recommended)
7. DISTRIBUTE the Talk and Take Action Student Handout (2 pages) OR have students use the web site Make Beliefs Comix to create an online cartoon depticting a situation when they have to respond to an instance of inappropriate online communication. www.makebeliefscomix.com (recommended)
8. Assessment: Why is it a bad idea to send mean or scary messages online?Why might there be more misunderstandings between people when they send online messages as opposed to face-to-face discussion?What can kids do when they get cyberbullying messages?
Fifth Grade
Communication: Twalkers
1. Essential Question: How can using a cell phone distract you?
2. Define the Key Vocabulary terms distract and multitask. Then follow up with the definitions above.
3. Watch “Jennette McCurdy’s ‘Chicken’ Commercial for Safe Kids USA” YouTube video and afterwards discuss:
3. Watch “Jennette McCurdy’s ‘Chicken’ Commercial for Safe Kids USA” YouTube video and afterwards discuss:
- Why did the chicken cross the road?
- What three distractions did Jennette name at the end of the commercial?
4. Students will log into the Digital Passport and play Twalkers independently
5. Wrap Up: How can cell phones distract you from beingpolite to others? How can cell phones distract you from being safe? How can cell phones distract you from focusing on important things?
6. Assessment:
6. Assessment:
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Privacy: Share Jumper
1. Essential Question: What information is safe and smart to put online?
2. Icebreaker: Have students write a secret in pencil on a scrap of paper. Let them know that no one else will see what they write. Encourage them to press down hard with their pencil. Then ask students to try to erase what they have written.
3. Discuss: Were you able to erase what you wrote? If you were to write this secret on the Internet and
then take it down a day later, do you think it would be gone?
4. Students will log into the Digital Passport and play Share Jumper independently.
5. Assessment:
3. Discuss: Were you able to erase what you wrote? If you were to write this secret on the Internet and
then take it down a day later, do you think it would be gone?
4. Students will log into the Digital Passport and play Share Jumper independently.
5. Assessment:
privacy_mission.pdf | |
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Cyberbullying: Upstander
1. Essential Question: How can you become an Upstander when you see cyberbullying occur?
2. Icebreaker: Students imagine what it would feel like if their friends ignored them when they needed help.
3. DEFINE the Key Vocabulary terms target, upstander and bystander.
4. Students will log into the Digital Passport and click here to play E-volve independently.
5. Wrap Up: How would you describe cyberbullying to someonewho didn’t know the term? If you are being bullied, what should you do? What are some ways in which you can bean Upstander?
6. Assessment:
3. DEFINE the Key Vocabulary terms target, upstander and bystander.
4. Students will log into the Digital Passport and click here to play E-volve independently.
5. Wrap Up: How would you describe cyberbullying to someonewho didn’t know the term? If you are being bullied, what should you do? What are some ways in which you can bean Upstander?
6. Assessment:
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Search Shark
1. Essential Question: Why is it important to choose the right keywords when you search online?
2. Icebreaker: Students that they are going to explore why using keywords when searching is an effective way to find information on the Internet.
3. Define keyword
4. View the collection of words and guess the book
3. Define keyword
4. View the collection of words and guess the book
the and
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by book
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wizard
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Hogwarts
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scar
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5. POINT OUT that when searching for information online, there are certain words that are better than others to type into a search engine. Explain that words like “and” or “the” are not as helpful as descriptive words, because they do not give a search engine any hints for what you are looking for. (For example, you could type “Winnie Pooh” in a search engine and get the same results as if you typed “Winnie the Pooh.”)
6. Invite students to log into the Digital Passport and play Search Shark independently.
7. Wrap Up: Why is it important to choose the right keywords? What are some things to remember when youchoose keywords? What is one tip about online searching that you will share with your family?
8. Assessment:
6. Invite students to log into the Digital Passport and play Search Shark independently.
7. Wrap Up: Why is it important to choose the right keywords? What are some things to remember when youchoose keywords? What is one tip about online searching that you will share with your family?
8. Assessment:
search_shark.pdf | |
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Creative Credit: Mix-n-Mash
1. Essential Question: How do you properly give and receive credit for creative work?
2. Icebreaker: How would an artist show that she created her painting? How would an author show that he wrote his book?
3. Define the vocabulary term credit.
4. Ask: Why would you want others to know that a work is yours?
5. DEFINE the Key Vocabulary terms copyright and plagiarize.
6. Students to log into the Digital Passport and play Mix-n-Mash independently.
7. Wrap Up: What is plagiarizing, and why is it disrespectful? How can you give someone else credit for their work? What is a good way to get credit for your own work?
8. Assessment:
3. Define the vocabulary term credit.
4. Ask: Why would you want others to know that a work is yours?
5. DEFINE the Key Vocabulary terms copyright and plagiarize.
6. Students to log into the Digital Passport and play Mix-n-Mash independently.
7. Wrap Up: What is plagiarizing, and why is it disrespectful? How can you give someone else credit for their work? What is a good way to get credit for your own work?
8. Assessment:
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