Learning kitGrades 4-5

Digital citizenship

Lead online: a community for good

Map how you connect with others, follow your digital footprint, check a source like a fact checker, design an online community with rules everyone agrees on, and make a message that helps people. Ages 9 to 11 or grades 4 to 5.

Time
About 90 minutes, in one or two sittings
Steps
5 steps
You need
A computer, Chromebook or tablet. Paper and markers are handy for the last step. Printing is optional: every step works on screen. No account needed.
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$5 for one learner: every step, the Comic Maker activities that check the work, the printable lesson, and the certificate with a page of the learner's own work.

A six-panel comic about an online robot club that welcomes a new kid, helps him make his robot move, and cheers when it works.

The 5 steps

  1. 1Explore how you connect with othersRead and quizYou belong to many communities: your family, your class, your family or class, your team. Online, you belong to more.
  2. 2Discover your digital footprintRead and quizEverything you do online leaves a track. Together those tracks are your digital footprint.
  3. 3Consider the sourceInvestigateAnyone can put anything online. Someone who leads checks where information comes from before believing or sharing it.
  4. 4Design a digital communityDesign itNow you lead. Design an online community for something you love, with rules that make it a great place to be.
  5. 5Create content for changeMake itPeople who lead use technology to help. Make a message that helps people be safer or kinder online.

Work on a computer. The apps need a keyboard and a bigger screen than a phone: a laptop, desktop or Chromebook. You can pay here and open the emailed link on the computer.

One learner

Unlock the kit, $5

  • All 5 steps, worked on screen, with a lesson you can print if you like paper
  • Comic Maker activities that check the work as it is done
  • A numbered certificate with a page of the learner's own work: your community plan, your message for change and your notes

We email a link that opens the kit on any computer. No account needed. We keep the email only to send the kit and certificate links: privacy.

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Co-ops and classes: unlock it for a group

One payment and one code. Each learner types the code to unlock the kit on their own computer, and gets their own certificate at the end. Your pack page shows who has started and finished.

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Questions

What does the learner do in Lead online: a community for good?

It has 5 steps: 1. Explore how you connect with others; 2. Discover your digital footprint; 3. Consider the source; 4. Design a digital community; 5. Create content for change. Map how you connect with others, follow your digital footprint, check a source like a fact checker, design an online community with rules everyone agrees on, and make a message that helps people. Ages 9 to 11 or grades 4 to 5.

What age is it for?

Grades 4-5. About 90 minutes, in one or two sittings.

What is needed?

A computer, Chromebook or tablet. Paper and markers are handy for the last step. Printing is optional: every step works on screen. No account needed.

Is there a certificate?

Yes. A numbered certificate with a page of the learner's own work, for your records or a portfolio. It is not course credit.

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