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Library Media Curriculum Elementary Library Media (K-5)
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Strand 10

Awareness, modern citizenship, and informed decision making

Standard 5

Identify and explain the rights and responsibilities with respect to media and digital citizenship.
  • Be Internet Awesome: It’s Cool to be Kind, Lesson 1.1 - Noticing feelings
    This resource is a Google Slides/Pear Deck lesson you can use in your classroom. The "golden rule" is just as important online as it is "IRL". The internet can be a truly great place to learn when comments, conversations, and content are positive. Help students see how to make choices that disempower bullying behaviour and create healthy, productive spaces to interact.
  • Be Internet Awesome: It’s Cool to be Kind, Lesson 1.2 - Practicing empathy
    This resource is a Google Slides/Pear Deck lesson you can use in your classroom. The "golden rule" is just as important online as it is "IRL". The internet can be a truly great place to learn when comments, conversations, and content are positive. Help students see how to make choices that disempower bullying behaviour and create healthy, productive spaces to interact.
  • Be Internet Awesome: It’s Cool to be Kind, Lesson 2.1 - Your kindness gram
    This resource is a Google Slides/Pear Deck lesson you can use in your classroom. The "golden rule" is just as important online as it is "IRL". The internet can be a truly great place to learn when comments, conversations, and content are positive. Help students see how to make choices that disempower bullying behaviour and create healthy, productive spaces to interact.
  • Be Internet Awesome: It’s Cool to be Kind, Lesson 2.2 - Ways to show kindness
    This resource is a Google Slides/Pear Deck lesson you can use in your classroom. The "golden rule" is just as important online as it is "IRL". The internet can be a truly great place to learn when comments, conversations, and content are positive. Help students see how to make choices that disempower bullying behaviour and create healthy, productive spaces to interact.
  • Be Internet Awesome: It’s Cool to be Kind, Lesson 3 - From negative to nice
    This resource is a Google Slides/Pear Deck lesson you can use in your classroom. The "golden rule" is just as important online as it is "IRL". The internet can be a truly great place to learn when comments, conversations, and content are positive. Help students see how to make choices that disempower bullying behaviour and create healthy, productive spaces to interact.
  • Be Internet Awesome: It’s Cool to be Kind, Lesson 4 - About your tone
    This resource is a Google Slides/Pear Deck lesson you can use in your classroom. The "golden rule" is just as important online as it is "IRL". The internet can be a truly great place to learn when comments, conversations, and content are positive. Help students see how to make choices that disempower bullying behaviour and create healthy, productive spaces to interact.
  • Be Internet Awesome: Secure Your Secrets, Lesson 4 - Interland: Tower of Treasure
    This resource is a Google Slides/Pear Deck lesson you can use in your classroom. Help your students understand that privacy is more than just what they choose to share or not share online. This lesson helps students understand what information should be private and safeguarded ? and what they need to do to keep it that way.
  • Be Internet Awesome: Share with Care, Lesson 1 - When not to share
    This resource is a Google Slides/Pear Deck lesson you can use in your classroom. Helping kids understand that what they post can be forwarded, copied, and found is crucial to staying safe online. Teach students how to recognize and steer clear of potentially embarrassing or even dangerous situations that could have lasting consequences.
  • Be Internet Awesome: Share with Care, Lesson 3 - That's not what I meant!
    This resource is a Google Slides/Pear Deck lesson you can use in your classroom. Helping kids understand that what they post can be forwarded, copied, and found is crucial to staying safe online. Teach students how to recognize and steer clear of potentially embarrassing or even dangerous situations that could have lasting consequences.
  • Be Internet Awesome: Share with Care, Lesson 4 - Frame it
    This resource is a Google Slides/Pear Deck lesson you can use in your classroom. Helping kids understand that what they post can be forwarded, copied, and found is crucial to staying safe online. Teach students how to recognize and steer clear of potentially embarrassing or even dangerous situations that could have lasting consequences.
  • Be Internet Awesome: Share with Care, Lesson 5 - Whose profile is this, anyway?
    This resource is a Google Slides/Pear Deck lesson you can use in your classroom. Helping kids understand that what they post can be forwarded, copied, and found is crucial to staying safe online. Teach students how to recognize and steer clear of potentially embarrassing or even dangerous situations that could have lasting consequences.
  • Be Internet Awesome: Share with Care, Lesson 7 - Interland: Mindful Mountain
    This resource is a Google Slides/Pear Deck lesson you can use in your classroom. Helping kids understand that what they post can be forwarded, copied, and found is crucial to staying safe online. Teach students how to recognize and steer clear of potentially embarrassing or even dangerous situations that could have lasting consequences.
  • Be Internet Awesome: Share with Care, Vocabulary
    This resource is a Google Slides/Pear Deck lesson you can use in your classroom. Helping kids understand that what they post can be forwarded, copied, and found is crucial to staying safe online. Teach students how to recognize and steer clear of potentially embarrassing or even dangerous situations that could have lasting consequences.
  • Copyright in the Real World (Part 1)
    This is a lesson plan created by Copyright & Creativity for Ethical Digital Citizens. This lesson gives students an experience that teaches them how to identify copyrighted work and understand Creative Commons licenses for finding creative work. This resource includes the lesson plan (pdf) and links to an accompanying Google Slides presentation and YouTube video.
  • Creativity & Sharing Fairly
    This is a lesson plan created by Copyright & Creativity for Ethical Digital Citizens. In this lesson plan, Students learn about ownership concepts associated with creative work and how their work might be shared. This resource includes the lesson plan (pdf) and links to an accompanying Google Slides presentation and YouTube video.
  • Gr 5 St 1: Define Basic Terms Media Literacy
    Define with examples basic terms (e.g. media literacy, mass media, local media, social media). Review previous terminology.
  • It’s Great to Create & Play Fair
    This is a lesson plan created by Copyright & Creativity for Ethical Digital Citizens. In this lesson plan, students learn the importance of attribution?getting credit for the work they do and giving credit to others for their creative work. This resource includes the lesson plan (pdf) and links to an accompanying Google Slides presentation and YouTube video.
  • Positive Online Interactions
    This Canva presentation can help middle school teachers instruct students in developing positive online interactions.
  • Respect the Person
    This is a lesson plan created by Copyright & Creativity for Ethical Digital Citizens. In this lesson plan, young students learn the importance of attribution?getting credit for the work they do and giving credit to others for their creative work. Included with this resource are the lesson plan (pdf), and links to an accompanying Google Slides presentation and YouTube video.
  • Sharing Fairly
    This is a lesson plan created by Copyright & Creativity for Ethical Digital Citizens. This lesson introduces the concept of fair use. It promotes creative expression and gives students experience with the basic idea of copyright. This resource includes the lesson plan (pdf) and links to an accompanying Google Slides presentation and YouTube video.


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