Grade K Digital Citizen Cornerstone Task Lesson

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Multiple Means of Motivation

Brainstorm a list of ways to remain safe and be a good friend online.
Pose a serious of multiple choice questions about digital citizenship topics (See BrainPop quiz or use grK_dc_cornerstoneReviewQuestions Links to an external site. as samples) and have students answer in 4 corner-type game.

Learning Target:

Multiple Means of Representation

Review answers to questions and the list created.
Students can use the list created to help answer the questions.
Demonstrate how students will be creating their creature. Brainstorm ways parts of their creature can represent digital citizenship concepts
- teeth that spell “kind” for the types of comments to make online
- eyes that, when using the internet, only see people they know in person.
Encourage students to use their imaginations and have fun with this.

Learning Target:

Students will connect parts of their creature to promote digital citizen concepts.

Multiple Means of Expression

Students will work in pairs to create a picture of a creature. Partners should be sitting close together. Each student begins one picture. After 5 minutes, tell the students to switch pictures with their partner and then the partner completes the picture.
Give explicit directions about what each partner will draw (e.g. on the creature you begin with, you draw everything on the head, and on the creature you complete you draw the body)
Students can talk to their partners about the creature and should think about how they work together in person.
Depending on the needs of your students, you may want to allow students to create collages instead of drawings.

Learning Target:

Students should add a speech bubble and have the creature say one thing they know about how to behave online.

Multiple Means of Motivation

Review list created of ways to stay safe and be a good friend online.
Show the pictures from the previous class. Consider using a Gallery Walk to provide them an opportunity to see everyone's pictures.
Ask students about working in person and how it may be different from working online.

Learning Target:

Students will begin to compare working face to face with working collaboratively online.

Multiple Means of Representation

Explain to students that they will now be creating creatures online. They will work with a partner to complete a creature, but this time their partner will not be sitting near them.
Assign partners.
Demonstrate and guide students in using the website that was chosen to create the creatures.
Create a checklist that provides explicit directions with the responsibilities for partner 1 and partner 2. For example on Build your Wild Self they should do the blue and yellow items on their own computer, and the green items when they switch).
Discuss ways to be good friends online. Review what went well in person, and what some challenges were. Relate these to working online.

Learning Target:

Multiple Means of Expression

Students use the website to begin to create a creature.
After a few minutes tell students to switch places with their partner.
Give the partner a few minutes to complete the creature .
Print or provide another way to display the creatures.
Each set of partners should choose one rule for staying safe or being a good friend online.
Allow students time to use the grK_dc_cornerstoneStudentRubric Links to an external site. to evaluate their work.
Ask students what the similarities and differences were when creating the creature online vs.in person.
Each set of partners should show their creatures to the class and tell the class the digital citizen rule they included with their creature.

Learning Target:

Partners can create a dialogue about staying safe online and have their creatures act out the dialogue.

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