Digital Safety & Citizenship for 4th Grade 

Lesson 1: Media Balance & Well-being

1. Use the materials for My Media Choices

2. Watch the video  My Media Balance.

3. Discuss:

• • What makes a healthy media choice?

  • How are some media choices more healthy or less healthy than others?

4. Complete the two activities My Media Choices Tracker, and Reflecting on My Media.

Lesson 2: Privacy & Security 

1. Use the materials for Private and Personal Information.

2. Use the Lesson Plan with the activities:

• • Stand Up, Sit Down

  • Why Do People Share?

  • Private or Personal?

3. Be sure to use the slides and the video with the lesson plan.

4. Use the Exit Ticket as an individual or whole class activity.

Lesson 3: Digital Footprint & Identity

1. Use the materials for Our Online Tracks.

2. Pose the essential question "How does our online activity affect the digital footprints of ourselves and others?"

3. Show the lesson slides. On slide #7 use the materials for Camilla's Footprint.

4. Use the Lesson Quiz as a whole group, small group, or individual activity.

Lesson 4: Relationships & Communication

1. Use the materials for Keeping Games Fun and Friendly.

2. Discuss: How can we be positive and have fun while playing online games, and help others do the same?

3. Use the slides with the video for this lesson.

4. Use the Video Game Cover activity as an individual or paired project.

Lesson 5: Cyberbullying, Digital Drama, & Hate Speech

1. Use the materials for Super Digital Citizen.

2. Pose the essential question How can we be upstanders when we see cyberbullying?

3.  Use the lesson slides and show the lesson video.

4. Discuss the terms digital citizen, cyberbully, and upstander. Use the lesson materials for Being an Upstander (go to the lesson plan section). Have students complete the What would a super digital citizen do? activity in pairs or individually, and discuss their ideas.

5. Use the Digital Citizen Superhero activity. On the back of the paper, or on another piece of paper, have students draw a one-frame  (or multiframe) comic of their superhero being an upstander. 

Lesson 6: News and Media Literacy

1. Use the materials for A Creator's Rights and Responsibilities.

2. Use the lesson slides and the student handout What's Copyright?

3. Use the Lesson Quiz as a whole group, small group, or individual activity. Discuss the answers after students take the quiz.

Lesson 7: Artificial Intelligence (AI) (15 minutes)

Show the  AI Generated News or Not? slides and conduct a class discussion over what you have learned.