Digital Citizenship Week

*Teachers who participate for 3+ days (EC/LS) or facilitate one activity in every class section (MS/US) will get a Sonic drink and 30 minutes of ed tech credit on your tracker.

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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

Win It Wednesday

Students will design a poster, flyer, or social media post promoting good digital citizenship (using a tool like Canva or Adobe Express is recommended). EC and Lower School students could also complete one of the coloring pages or printable activities. 

Digital Footprint & Online Identity: Students will consider the risks & benefits of online sharing and how it can impact self, relationships & reputation.

Think It Through Thursday / MS & US: History Classes

Lead a class discussion about digital citizenship topics using the Digital Citizenship discussion questions. Alternatively, older students could write their answers to these topics or share with a partner.

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 your answers to a few of the Digital Citizenship discussion questions. 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 on Monday, Wednesday & Friday in the Union at lunch.