Common Sense Media Curriculum Evaluation

For this assignment, you are going to take a look at some lessons from a free Digital Citizenship
Curriculum created by Common Sense Media. You will need to create a free account to be able to look at
the curriculum. The links below will take you to an overview of the lesson. You need to login to download
the lessons in PDF or iBooks form. Take a look at the lesson and evaluate it. In the table below, describe
each of the lessons and explain the purpose and benefits to teaching the lesson to students.

Title of Lesson and Description of Lesson Purpose and Benefits to

Grade Level Teaching This Lesson to
Students

K-2 Students learn the It will teach children how

My Creative Work
https://www.commonsensem
edia.org/educators/lesson/my
-creative-work-k-2
importance of citing the work important it is to give people
they use, as well as giving credit for what they do and
themselves credit for what how valuable the work they
they are creating, so people create is.
who use the work they
created in the future can give
them credit for it.

3-5 This lesson is to show This activity in a sense

Whose Is It, Anyway? children the importance of makes students see
citing the work they use, plagiarism as the creator’s
https://www.commonsense.or when it is okay not to get perspective which I think
g/education/lesson/whose-is- permission to use someone’s makes it easier for them to
it-anyway-3-5 work. understand why they
shouldn’t plagiarise.

6-8 During this lesson, students This activity makes students

Rework, Reuse, Remix will learn the concept of fair first learn what fair use and
use and and when using a then they create a work of
https://www.commonsense.or video, song counts as fair use their own using fair use
g/education/lesson/rework- and when you need correctly. This is great as
reuse-remix-6-8 permission to use it. students will both learn the
concept and practice it which
will help them learn it faster
and better.

9-12 During this lesson, students The benefits are that students
Collective Intelligence learn about working will be able to understand
collectively with other people they can work collectively
https://www.commonsensem in an online project and they with people all around the
edia.org/educators/lesson/coll learn how this work. world and learn from each
ective-intelligence-9-12 other.