Digital Citizenship Week

*Teachers will get a jeans day for each activity they facilitate. Teachers who participate for 3+ days (EC/LS) or facilitate one activity in every class section (MS/US) will get a Sonic drink and an Amazon gift card. 

Getting the Word Out

Please include something about how you will/did celebrate Digital Citizenship Week (& include the bit.ly/asesdigcitweek link) in your Mondagram / weekly newsletter [EC & Lower School] or in a post on Google Classroom or ParentSquare [Middle & Upper School]. 

Creative Contest

Students will design a meme about digital citizenship. Students will vote on the best meme in the Union on Friday and the winning entries will receive a prize.

Daily Activities

*Daily activities should take about 5 minutes or less.*

*They will be completed during Morning Meeting or at any convenient time during the day in Early Childhood and Lower School and during the allotted subject in Middle or Upper School (MS & US teachers can facilitate the allotted activity type in each of their class periods at some point during the week - e.g. showing a dig cit video in each of your 6 sections).*

Movie Monday / MS & US: Arts, Language & Tech Classes

Show a video about digital citizenship! Choose a video or two from the collections linked below (most are under 5 minutes).

-Early Childhood - 1st Grade Videos

-2nd to 5th Grade Videos

-6th - 8th Grade Videos

-9th - 12th Grade Videos

Text Tuesday / MS & US: English Classes

The other kind of text! Read a book or article about digital citizenship. Younger grades can do a class read aloud; older students can choose their own article from the list then discuss what they read and learned.

-Picture Book Read Alouds for EC - 5th

-Dig Cit books on Epic! for EC - 5th

(*Dig Cit books are also available throughout the EC and LS)

-Articles for Middle & Upper School

Tournament Thursday / MS & US: History Classes

Students will design a meme promoting good digital citizenship (they can use a meme generator or a tool like Canva). Students will vote on the best meme in the Union on Friday and the winning entries will receive a prize.

Or, EC and Lower School students could also complete one of the coloring pages or printable activities. Middle and Upper School students could also complete a module on Social Media Test Drive.

Fun Friday / MS & US: Math & Science Classes

Have your students play a digital citizenship game! Here are fun games that allow students to practice their digital citizenship and internet safety skills. Kahoot also has digital citizenship games (Common Sense Education & other dig cit Kahoots). For young students, you can play as a whole class on the screen. 

Additional Suggested In-Class Activities

Writing Prompt: Write a response to a discussion prompt from the Everyday Dig Cit program. Or, watch a video or read an article (linked on Monday & Tuesday above) about dig cit, then summarize what you learned / whether you agree or disagree / etc.

News & Media Literacy: 

-Teach Common Sense Education Media Literacy lesson (9th - 12th)

-Watch a BrainPOP video about media literacy or a Flocabulary video about fake news

-Teach a Checkology news literacy lesson

-Have students investigate the Truth or Fiction? website

-Discuss / explore Media Literacy and the Election

Union Lunch Activities

Students will have the opportunity to participate in activities Monday, Thursday & Friday in the Union at lunch.