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Grade K–2

NEW! Meet Head of the Digital Citizens!

How do you know something you see or hear is true?

In this short, introductory digital citizenship lesson, students meet Head, one of the six Digital Citizen characters! Head introduces the topic of news and media literacy (in a kid-friendly way), and why it's important to be curious and ask questions, so that we can know what's true and what's unbelievable.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand that not everything they see on the internet is true.

  • Reflect on ways to check if something they see online is true.

Key Vocabulary: news   ·   unbelieveable  
news:
new information about recent or important events
unbelieveable:
something that is probably not true
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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