Common Sense Education’s Digital Citizenship Curriculum

If you access only one digital citizenship resource, make it this one. Common Sense Education’s Digital Citizenship Curriculum includes interactive, customizable, and bilingual lessons and activities, browsable by grade and topic. Each step-by-step printable lesson plan includes everything teachers need for classroom implementation, from learning objectives to quizzes to take home resources.

PBS Learning Media Digital Citizenship

A comprehensive, preK-12 resource for teaching 10 digital citizenship topics. Videos, interactive lessons, documents, and more are easily searchable by grade. Each standards-aligned exercise features a downloadable video accompanied by support materials for educators, transcripts, and lesson-building tools. Shareable to Google Classroom.

Which Digital Citizenship Skills Do Students Need Most?

It’s not just cyberbullying, privacy, and safety. Common Sense Education’s Erin Wilkey Oh takes a dive into the research to provide ideas for broadening your digital citizenship curriculum while boosting kids’ news literacy, focus, and habits of mind.

Digital Citizenship Progression Chart

This super-useful guide organizes the elements of digital cItizenship by concept and lays out a timetable for appropriate introduction by grade level. Best of all, it links to a spreadsheet that can be copied, downloaded, and adapted for your own classroom.

Teachers' Essential Guide to Cyberbullying Prevention

What is cyberbullying? What's my responsibility in preventing cyberbullying? Should I intervene in a cyberbullying situation? These and other critical questions are explored in this article by Common Sense Education's Erin Wilkey Oh. A great starting point for teachers planning or updating their digital citizenship curriculum.

Teaching Digital Citizenship

InCtrl’s multimedia lessons are standards-aligned and cover a wide array of digital citizenship topics, including media literacy, ethics/copyright, and digital footprint. The lessons are applied across the curriculum, from ELA to science and social studies, so educators can easily incorporate these into various classes.

Google Digital Literacy & Citizenship Curriculum

Google teamed up with iKeepSafe to produce this digital citizenship curriculum that’s interactive and hands-on, and gives students the opportunity to learn by doing. Each topic features videos, lesson plans, and student handouts.

NetSmartz Digital Citizenship Videos

Short, age-appropriate videos address sensitive topics in an engaging and entertaining way. Videos for middle and high school students feature teen life at NS High, while the “Into the Cloud” series is aimed at 10-year-olds and younger. Includes several sobering real-life stories about sexual exploitation. Watch online or download.

Google’s Be Internet Awesome

The Be Internet Awesome downloadable curriculum is accompanied by the slick and sophisticated animated “Interland” game, featuring cool music, super stylish 3D graphics, and colorful, fun geometric characters. The curriculum includes five lessons and a teacher’s guide.