This site is a well known and highly valuable website for informing teachers on digital citizenship topics and aiding in lesson planning. There are a wide variety of digital citizenship and social media effects topics for teachers to educate themselves on and create lessons around. All information is adjustable for the needs and purposes of the teacher and free to access. The site is also up to date and relevant to the current issues surrounding media and children.
Core Integration:
To integrate social media safety into core lessons, information could be provided during reading and writing times. Students could be provided with articles to read about healthy social media habits and health outcomes. This would allow practice with general reading comprehension and practice with reading informational texts. Students could then also be prompted to practice synthesizing information by coming information they have learned into an informational article of their own.
Standards:
MEH 1.2.1: Explain the importance of talking with parents and other trusted adults about feelings (HBO 1,2,8).
MEH 1.2.4: Describe the difference between bullying and teasing (HBO 1,3,4).
MEH 2.2.3: Identify relevant influences of media and technology on mental and emotional health practices and behaviors.
MEH 2.2.4: Describe positive influences on mental and emotional health practices and behaviors.
MEH 2.2.5: Describe negative influences on mental and emotional health practices and behaviors.
MEH 4.2.1: Demonstrate how to effectively communicate needs, wants, and feelings in healthy ways.
MEH 4.2.3: Demonstrate effective refusal skills to avoid participating in emotionally unhealthy behaviors.
MEH 4.2.4: Demonstrate how to effectively tell a trusted adult when feelings threatened or harmed.
MEH 4.2.5: Identify how to effectively communicate care and concern for others.
ELA-LITERACY.W.2.2
Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
ELA-LITERACY.W.2.6
With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.1
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.2
Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.6
Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
