5th Grade Digital Citizenship Lessons
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Digital Citizenship Pledge 
Essential Question  |  How do you create a positive online community?

Students will be able to...
  • establish expectations and norms for the group related to appropriate online behavior.
  • participate responsibly and respectfully in an online community.
  • collaborate on a classroom motto about digital citizenship.
Digital Citizenship Pledge - Lesson Plan PDF  
​Family Tip Sheet Digital Life - PDF
​Resources from Common Sense Media

What's Cyberbullying 

Essential Question  |  What is cyberbullying, and how do you deal with it?
Students discuss positive and negative aspects of interacting with others online. Students learn the definition of cyberbullying and help the teacher fill in a Venn diagram that compares in-person bullying with cyberbullying. They then read a story of a student who is cyberbullied, identifying the players involved and how the target might feel.
Lesson Objectives
Students will be able to ...
  • empathize with the targets of cyberbullying.
  • ​recognize some of the key similarities and differences between in-person bullying and cyberbullying.
  • identify strategies for dealing responsibly with cyberbullying.
​​Family Tip Sheet       Student Activity      Lesson Plan

Whose is it, anyways?

Whose is it, anyways?  Video
Essential Question  |  How can I show respect for people’s work?

Students will be able to...
  • define plagiarism and describe its consequences.
  • explain how giving credit is a sign of respect for people’s work.
  • articulate when it is acceptable to use people’s work, and how to write a citation.
Whose Is It, Anyways?  - Lesson Plan PDF
Family Tip Sheet Respecting Creative Work - PDF
​Resources from Common Sense Media

Literacy - Research and Information

Keywords in Action -
Teaching Channel
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Research and Information BrainPop Link
 ​Essential Question  |  Which keywords will give you the best search results?

Students will be able to...
  • experiment with different keyword searches and compare their results.
  • refine their searches by using multiple words, synonyms, and alternative words and phrases.
  • draw inferences to explain their search results
Key to Keywords - Lesson Plan PDF 
Family Tip Sheet Smart Searching - PDF
​Resources from Common Sense Media
Research and Information  |  BrainPop  (3:01)

​How do you do an Internet search?
  • Search engine
  • Keywords
  • Using quotation marks

Digital Etiquette

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Digital Etiquette BrainPop Link
Digital Etiquette  |  BrainPop (3:58)

​What’s the deal with digital etiquette?
  • How to treat others online (games, email, IM, chats, blogs, and social networks)
  • Communicating online

Online Safety

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Online Safety BrainPop Link
Internet Safety  |  BrainPop  (4:45)​
  • People meet and communicate
  • Friends and new people
  • Games
  • Profile – what to share and what not to share
  • Post, chat, join groups
  • Privacy settings
  • Strangers