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3rd and 4th grade lesson module on staying safe online

Stanford Universities resources on Copyright & Fair Use. Some nice links and resources for understanding and teaching copyright and fair use.

Exploring copyright - getting students to think about using creative works. A nice intro to a lesson/mini-unit on Copyright.

This site is useful for free images students and teachers can use with multimedia projects. One huge issue I have to getting students and staff to not use copyrighted images, and this site helps because not only are there a of images, the images are beautiful.

Students explore the legal and ethical dimensions of respecting creative work. Upper middle school lesson plan.

Students will explore the ethical practices of respecting creative work.

Students can discuss text-dependent questions to promote an understanding of the story's character. This resource features a trading card creator for each significant character in the story.

This includes a PDF that teachers could use to help themselves determine whether or not they are following Fair Use in regards to copyright.

This is a series of short PowerPoints to highlight each of the steps of The Big6 research process. I will use this with the 9th and 10th grade history classes and will probably share with teachers at the beginning of the year so that they know it is available.

This resource from WISELearn Resources is a collection of primary sources exploring the poetry of Maya Angelou, giving students an experience in understanding the difference between primary and secondary sources and the opportunity to think critically about synthesizing information found across many sources. I plan to share this with my 8th grade ELA / SS teachers.

This lesson walks students in grades 2 and 3 through the process of creating a research paper on a US state. The slides document is interactive and provides a step-by-step method for creating a final product.

Smartie the Penguin is geared for students aged 4 to 7 to explore online safety. The three themes of popups/in app purchases; inappropriate websites, and cyberbullying are all covered in an age appropriate way with opportunities for students to discuss scenarios on what Smartie should do.

Allows students to evaluate how media and advertising influence their decisions.

This is a great lesson for teaching middle and early high schoolers how to evaluate internet sources using the CRAAP test (giggle). As an LMS, I would ideally co-teach this lesson with history and English teachers of 9th and 10th graders.

This is a lesson to help MS students to learn about evaluate sources using the CRAAP method. It includes links and supplementals to have students practice the skills being taught.

One area for which I'm always searching for more resources and information is resources that can be shared with parents and families to support the digital citizenship learning students are doing in the library. Just because most parents many parents are comfortable with technology, that doesn't 'mean they know how to talk to their children about internet safety and ethics. This includes a good list of resources that are available.

This provides a fantastic list of resources for parents (or teachers) to utilize to support the teaching of digital citizenship skills! I'm always looking for tools to share with our families to help them better understand their role in creating good digital citizens at home.

This is a fun lesson to be used with second graders. Our students learn about alphabet books in kindergarten, but they come back around in later reading and writing lessons. I like that this lesson offers a blend of reading, writing, and a little bit of tech. Fun!

A resource adapted from the CCBC for examining and purchasing materials by authors and illustrators of color. Also includes articles and references that outline the importance of multicultural education.

I currently teach fourth grade, which we know is all about Wisconsin! This is something that I would use with my fourth graders because it is an interactive digital graphic organizer. I don't think that it just has to be used for Wisconsin biographies because there are many different chart to choose from.