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The PDF lessons listed below are courtesy of Common Sense Media and Common Sense Education and are posted on this site with permission. These lessons are grouped by grade level. Some lessons reference a video(s) and are linked here for your convenience. Those videos marked "Student Video" are for use during a lesson, while any marked "Teacher Video" are demonstration videos of those lesson plans. A "Strategy Video" is a demonstration video modeling how to teach a specific strategy. Online access to Common Sense Media is available with a free account.
Kindergarten - Common Sense Education Lesson Plans & Videos
K-2 Unit 1-1 - Going Places Safely
K-2 Unit 1-2 - A-B-C Searching
K-2 Unit 1-3 - Keep It Private
K-2 Unit 1-4 - My Creative Work
First Grade - Common Sense Education Lesson Plans & Videos
K-2 Unit 2-1 - Staying Safe Online
K-2 Unit 2-2 - Following the Digital Trail
K-2 Unit 2-3 - Screen Out the Mean
Second Grade - Common Sense Education Lesson Plans & Videos
K-2 Unit 3-1 - Powerful Passwords
K-2 Unit 3-2 - My Online Community
K-2 Unit 3-3 - Things for Sale
K-2 Unit 3-4 - Show Respect Online
K-2 Unit 3-5 - Writing Good Emails
Third Grade - Common Sense Education Lesson Plans & Videos
3-5 Unit 1-1 - Rings of Responsibility
3-5 Unit 1-2 - Private and Personal Information
3-5 Unit 1-3 - The Power of Words
3-5 Unit 1-4 - The Key to Keywords
3-5 Unit 1-5 - Whose Is It, Anyway?
Fourth Grade - Common Sense Education Lesson Plans
3-5 Unit 2-1 - Strong Passwords
3-5 Unit 2-2 - Digital Citizenship Pledge
3-5 Unit 2-3 - You've Won a Prize!
3-5 Unit 2-4 - How to Cite a Site
3-5 Unit 2-5 - Picture Perfect
Fifth Grade - Common Sense Education Lesson Plans & Videos
3-5 Unit 3-1 - Talking Safely Online
3-5 Unit 3-2 - Super Digital Citizen
3-5 Unit 3-4 - What's Cyberbullying?
3-5 Unit 3-5 - Selling Stereotypes
Sixth Grade - Common Sense Education Lesson Plans & Videos
6-8 Unit 1-1 - Digital Life 101
6-8 Unit 1-2 - Strategic Searching
6-8 Unit 1-3 - Scams & Schemes
6-8 Unit 1-5 - A Creator's Rights
Seventh Grade - Common Sense Education Lesson Plans & Videos
6-8 Unit 1-4 - Cyberbullying: Be Upstanding
6-8 Unit 2-2 - A Creator's Responsibilities
6-8 Unit 2-3 - Safe Online Talk
6-8 Unit 3-1 - A Trillion Dollar Footprint
Eighth Grade - Common Sense Education Lesson Plans & Videos
6-8 Unit 2-4 - Which Me Should I Be?
6-8 Unit 2-5 - Gender Stereotypes Online
6-8 Unit 3-2 - Identifying High-Quality Sites
6-8 Unit 3-3 - The Reality of Digital Drama
6-8 Unit 3-4 - Cyberbullying: Crossing the Line
6-8 Unit 3-5 - Rework, Reuse, Remix
Ninth through Twelfth Grades - Common Sense Education Lesson Plans & Videos
9-12 Unit 1-1 - Digital Life 102
9-12 Unit 1-2 - Oops! I Broadcast It on the Internet
9-12 Unit 1-3 - Copyrights and Wrongs
9-12 Unit 1-4 - Feeling on Display
9-12 Unit 1-5 - Turn Down the Dial on Cyberbullying and Online Cruelty
9-12 Unit 2-1 - My Online Code
9-12 Unit 2-2 - Who Are You Online?
9-12 Unit 2-3 - Building Community Online
9-12 Unit 2-4 - Overexposed: Sexting and Relationships
9-12 Unit 2-5 - Risky Online Relationships
9-12 Unit 3-1 - Rights, Remixes, and Respect
9-12 Unit 3-2 - Taking Perspectives on Cyberbullying
9-12 Unit 3-3 - What's the Big Deal About Internet Privacy?
9-12 Unit 3-4 - Becoming a Web Celeb
9-12 Unit 4-1 - Private Today, Public Tomorrow
9-12 Unit 4-2 - Does It Matter Who Has Your Data?
9-12 Unit 4-3 - Breaking Down Hate Speech
9-12 Unit 4-4 - Retouching Reality
9-12 Unit 4-5 - Collective Intelligence
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA)
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
US Dept of Education Privacy Technical Assistance Center
Additional Resources
The Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship Excerpt
Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship Summary
ISTE Digital Citizenship Professional Development
Cyber Bullying Information and Resources
Printable Guidelines for Technology with Kids
Common Sense Media Parent Concerns & Resources
Google's IKeep Safe Curriculum
Various Lessons, Grade 7-9
Social Media Behaviour Lesson "Friendbook"
Dive Into Data Privacy and Security
• Student Privacy Professional Development Courses for K12 Educators: Training for teachers, employees, administrators, and school board members to ensure technology innovation and learning goals are balanced with privacy and security responsibilities.
• The e-Safety Committee Privacy Lead Objectives Guide: sequences three steps that the privacy leader of an educational agency must take to properly protect student information. These are to educate staff, evaluate current privacy practices, and ensure the use of certified products.
• Student Protected Information Table for Educators: is a quick reference chart for educators and school administrators to verify which pieces of student information are protected by which privacy laws, aligning them side-by-side for easy comparison. (The state laws listed are those of California).
• Top 10 Privacy Tips for Educators:walks educators through likely scenarios where student privacy needs to be considered. It is designed to increase student privacy awareness and improve privacy practices.
• Staff Communication & Social Media Policy Template for Schools: helps schools develop their own social media policy setting forth the rules and expectations for staff and educator use of social media and digital communication regardless of whether using a school network.
• FERPA 101: Introduces basic issues of FERPA and privacy, and helps elementary and middle school educators consider ways to build parent confidence about education technology and protections for personal information of young students.
• COPPA 101: Summarizes basic issues of COPPA and privacy, and helps elementary and middle school educators consider ways to build parent confidence about education technology and protections for personal information of young students.
• iKeepSafe Privacy K-12 Curriculum Matrix : Outlines age appropriate ways to teach students about the consequences of exposing their own personal information and why they should respect the privacy of others.
• Digital Compliance and Student Privacy: A Roadmap for Schools: Provides steps to implementing privacy and security compliance programs.
• iKeepSafe Privacy: Builds confidence around how technology companies are handling student data.
• Data Privacy and Schools: Outlining the Conversation: Examines challenges related to managing data privacy and security in schools.
• General Overview and Positioning Paper: iKeepSafe and Data Security: Discusses security protections for data collected by educational institutions.
Engage Your Whole School Community
• Creating a Healthy Digital Environment for 21st Century Learners: Highlights the successful digital leadership strategies of the Ventura County Office of Education.
• Be Kind Online: Addressees “Cyberbullying” by promoting healthy relationships and prevents social isolation by building strong, inclusive communities in schools and online.
• iKeepSafe Incident Response Tool: Guides administrators through the resolution of various cyber incidents.
• Simi Valley Unified School District: A Successful Strategy to Strengthen Digital Citizenship: Highlights one district’s strategy to strengthen digital citizenship.
• BYOD White Paper: Explores building a successful bring-your–own-device (BYOD) program.
• E-Rate Funding: Explains the new E-Rate requirements and how to fulfill them.
• Facebook for School Counselors: Increases school counselors’ familiarity with the social networking platform and guide them towards proactivity and preparedness.
Brush Up on Hot Topics
•Cyberbalance in a Digital Culture: Explores new findings on how cyberbalance impacts day-to-day life.
• Quick Tip Videos: Answers educators’ most pressing digital citizenship, security, and ethical questions in three-minutes or less.
Integrate Digital Citizenship into Curricula
• Balance Curriculum Matrix K-12 BEaPRO™: provides a comprehensive and sequential approach to teaching cyberbalance skills.
• Privacy Curriculum Matrix K-12 BEaPRO™: provides a comprehensive and sequential approach to teaching privacy skills.
• Relationships Curriculum Matrix K-12 BEaPRO™: provides a comprehensive and sequential approach to teaching the skills for healthy relationships.
• Mobile Safe Matrix: Offers lesson objectives and teaching strategies that accompany the cellphone smart games.
• C3 Matrix: Integrates the essentials of cyber-safety, cyber-security, and cyber-ethics (C3 concepts) into existing technology and literacy standards and curricula.
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