When young people want to find out more about a topic or question, they often turn to Google. But open Internet searches routinely turn up contradictory results that mix fact with falsehood. Making sense of search results is even more challenging with politically loaded topics. This task asks students to perform an open search about a controversial figure in order to assess their ability to wade through information to find sources, evidence, and arguments that they trust. Note: A free educator account is required to access these materials.

This is a lesson plan created by Copyright & Creativity for Ethical Digital Citizens. In this lesson plan, young students learn the importance of attribution—getting credit for the work they do and giving credit to others for their creative work. Included with this resource are the lesson plan (pdf), and links to an accompanying Google Slides presentation and YouTube video.

This video was created to accompany the Respect the Person lesson plan. The purpose of the lesson plan is to promote creave expression and help students realize the importance of attribution—getting credit for the work they do and giving credit to others for their creave work. The accompanying lesson plan and slides can be found on the Copyright & Creativity for Ethical Digital Citizens elementary curriculum webpage: https://copyrightandcreativity.org/elementary-school/

This Slides presentation was created to accompany the Respect the Person lesson plan. The purpose of the lesson plan is to promote creave expression and help students realize the importance of attribution—getting credit for the work they do and giving credit to others for their creave work. The accompanying lesson plan and video can be found on the Copyright & Creativity for Ethical Digital Citizens elementary curriculum webpage: https://copyrightandcreativity.org/elementary-school/

The purpose of this lesson plan is to promote creave expression and help students realize the importance of attribution—getting credit for the work they do and giving credit to others for their creave work. Slides and a video to accompany this lesson plan can be found on the Copyright & Creativity for Ethical Digital Citizens elementary curriculum webpage: https://copyrightandcreativity.org/elementary-school/

Using a musical chairs format, students will rotate around the circle -- with a book on each chair around the circle. When the music stops students will sit, pick up the book on their chair, and take turns sharing if their book is fiction or informational and why they would want to read it (the purpose for reading -- entertainment, to learn something, etc).

The Big6 is a six-stage model to help anyone solve problems or make decisions by using information. Students can use this model to guide them through the research process. This resource is an assessment tool to meausre student progress in each Big6 skill area.

This lesson, activity, and provided template will guide students to interact with the Rule of Thirds in existing images and encourge them to consider this design concept when capturing images.

This lesson, activity, and provided template will guide students to interact with the Rule of Thirds in existing images and encourge them to consider this design concept when capturing images.

Students are to compare the rules of the game between what is online and in print. Students will use the World Book Encyclopedia in Utah's Online Library and the print materials that the library has on sports.

This recording of a live webinar explores the SIRS Discoverer tool in the Utah's Online School Library, specifically how to navigate the Guided Research topics, curricular uses for SIRS Discoverer, and how to filter and limit search results.

This recording of a live webinar explores the SIRS Discoverer tool in the Utah's Online School Library, specifically how to navigate topics using Guided Research, examine multiple viewpoints of a leading issue, and introduce students to research and citation methods.

People look at things in different ways. This lesson provides examples of the way that works. Ties in with point of view.

The Big6 is a six-stage model to help anyone solve problems or make decisions by using information. Students can use this model to guide them through the research process. This resource guides students through writing a science lab report.

Writing a script is intimidating, but actually, breaking the process into small steps makes it MUCH EASIER and will result in a MUCH BETTER story. This lesson shows you how to plan and write a script. It is highly recommended that you use this lesson when students are working on a story. This lesson has several parts. These Scripting Slides can be used throughout the lessons. You might use some or all. Each will take about 50 minutes.

In this lesson students learn how to evaluate web sources for accuracy, relevancy, and credibility.

This lesson plan introduces databases and the library catalog to students who are completing the Senior Capstone project.

Students actively research their individual topics for valid sources using CRAAP tool in the Media Lab or in the classroom equipped with a mobile lab. Students select "best" sources from both print and digital "pools" and complete a rhetorical précis on each source that will be used/cited in their research papers.

This lesson plan (3 of 4) focuses on when we find new music or movies that we love, our natural inclination might be to share those with our friends. That’s a good thing, and good citizens know how to do it! Lesson 3 teaches how to draw the line between sharing that is legal and ethical and sharing that violates copyright law. The plan includes a pdf, Slides, and a video.

This is a lesson plan created by Copyright & Creativity for Ethical Digital Citizens. This lesson introduces the concept of fair use. It promotes creative expression and gives students experience with the basic idea of copyright. This resource includes the lesson plan (pdf) and links to an accompanying Google Slides presentation and YouTube video.