Teachers and parents understand how digital mistakes can hurt feelings, reputations, and privacy. But it can be harder to convince kids that a seemingly harmless post today could be misunderstood tomorrow—let alone in the future and by people, they never thought would see it. These activities use concrete examples and thought‑provoking discussions to teach young learners how to maintain a positive online presence and protect their privacy.
This resource is a 139-page unit plan with materials, scenarios, and conversation starters focused on digital safety.
Social Media for Students has been designed to give students the information that they need to develop responsible social media habits. This course illustrates the long-term consequences that irresponsible social media usage can have on a student’s educational, athletic, and professional careers. It shows students ways in which they can use social media to promote their team, school, community, and their own personal brand. Social media has turned every user into a mass communicator. Learning how to skillfully and safely utilize it now, will greatly help you as you continue to use social media in the future.
This lesson helps young people discover “tricks of the trade” in food and beverage marketing. They practice comparing the messages conveyed through advertisements with the nutrition information available about different products.
The influence of media can be strong. It's important to have the skills to analyze these messages. This is a lesson to help students navigate media and technology.
Learn how farm workers and owners formed a rare alliance in an effort to block the use of an incinerator in their Latino community by suing for environmental discrimination in this video segment adapted from Earthkeeping: "Toxic Racism." Learn about the rural town of Kettleman City, California, where one of the country's largest hazardous waste landfills is located. Hear how farmworkers and farm owners joined together to sue the waste management corporation for environmental discrimination against poor and minority communities. In addition, learn about environmental law principles that led to a ruling in favor of the citizens.
Explore the reasons behind the 2011 recall of ground turkey by the meat-packing company Cargill Foods in Springdale, AK, and the implications on our food safety, in this video excerpted from FRONTLINE: The Trouble with Chicken. Noticing high levels of salmonella in its ground turkey, Cargill Foods eventually recalled its product, but the delay still sickened 132 people and killed one person.
Students will analyze four different cigarette ads to understand the meaning of critical viewing and active viewing. They have an opportunity to study the elements— in this case, an advertisement for tobacco, and consider a series of questions, each designed to elicit important clues and information. This interactive learning activity can be used during a lesson on how social media influences health behaviors or when studying author's purpose.
Ignition: Digital Wellness and Safety is a digital literacy curriculum designed to provide students with the information literacy skills they need to safely and confidently navigate the digital world.
These six digital responsibility lessons encourage students to take practical steps to protect their own privacy and safety online, while also teaching them how to evaluate content for accuracy, perspective, and motive. Ignition helps students acknowledge the benefits of digital communities and resources while guiding them to successfully navigate potential pitfalls in their digital lives.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
Students take a quick oral quiz on television, advertising, and body image. Then they use an “Ad Decoder” (critical questions) to examine advertisements that are aimed at them. They also discuss how messages about body image can affect health.
In this blended lesson supporting literacy skills, students watch videos and complete interactive activities to learn how to use fractions to interpret food labels and make healthy eating choices. Students develop their literacy skills as they explore a mathematics focus on proportional reasoning. During this process, they read informational text, learn and practice vocabulary words, and explore content through videos and interactive activities
