Lessons

This lesson starts by showing children some of the kinds of advertisements they might run into online and helping them analyze these ads with a critical eye.

This lesson focuses on helping young children learn to participate in different kinds of digital communities. Students will solidify and work on what they know about being part of any community.

This lesson, part of the Digital Literacy series, addresses the importance of locating and verifying reliable sources when working with online information. This lesson is aimed at a young audience and operates on the assumption that many students in the class are not yet reading and writing independently.

This lesson helps students understand the concepts of strengths, struggles and what it means to help.

This lesson explicitly teaches students to be more conscious of other people’s feelings to create a more accepting and respectful school community.

This lesson provides a framework that will help students talk about their own and others’ families in safe, caring ways.

The familiar children’s tune “If You’re Happy and You Know It” can take on a pro-social dimension if you change the lyrics. Singing “If you’re angry and you know it” provides an opportunity to explore appropriate responses to anger.

This series help students think about their bodies and body images in a social justice context. Each lesson looks at a different aspect of the relationship children have with their bodies. The series helps students take ownership over their own feelings and attitudes and develop an activist stance in terms of understanding body image and also looking after their own physical and emotional wellbeing.