Digital Citizenship Lesson Plans

Lesson 1: My Media Choices

Learning Objectives: 

• Learn the "What? When? How Much?" framework for describing media choices.

• Use the framework and your emotional responses to evaluate how healthy different types of media choices are.

Lesson 2: Private and Personal Information

Learning Objectives: 

• identify the reasons why people share information about themselves online. 

• Explain the difference between private and personal information.

• Explain why it is risky to share private information online.

Lesson 3: Our Online Tracks

Learning Objectives: 

• Define the term "digital footprint" and identify the online activities that contribute to it.

• Identify ways you are -- and are not -- in control of your digital footprint.

• Understand what responsibilities you have for your digital footprints, as well as others.

Lesson 4: Keeping Games Fun and Friendly

Learning Objectives: 

• Define "social interaction" and give an example.

• Desribe the positives and negatives of social interaction in online games. 

• Create an online video game cover that includes guidelines for positive social interaction.

Lesson 5: Be A Super Digital Citizen

Learning Objectives: 

• Reflect on the characteristics that make someone an upstanding digital citizen.

• Recognize what cyberbullying is.

• Show ways to be an upstander by creating a digital citizenship superhero comic strip.

Lesson 6: A Creator's Rights and Responsibilities

Learning Objectives: 

• Define "copyright" and explain how it applies to creative work.

• Describe your rights and responsibilities as creators. 

• Apply copyright principles to real-life scenarios.