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Grade K–2

NEW! Meet Arms of the Digital Citizens!

How do we balance our time with technology?

In this short, introductory digital citizenship lesson, students will meet Arms, one of the six Digital Citizen characters! Arms explores the meaning of media balance and why it's important to balance our time online so that we have time to do all that we love.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand what media balance means.

  • Reflect on how they balance their time with technology.

Key Vocabulary: balance   ·   device  
balance:
having equal weight or importance of something
device:
an electronic piece of equipment like a phone, tablet, or laptop
This lesson meets standards for  CASEL .  See standards

Lesson Plan

15 mins.

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Lesson last updated: January 2023
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