Middle School Activities

High School Activities

   Lesson Sequence:

1. What Is Media?

2. Caring for Our Devices (Updated)

3. Safety in My Online Neighborhood (Updated)

4. Why We Pause for People (Updated)

5. Icky Feelings

6. Saying Goodbye to Tech 

7. How Media Makes Me Feel

8. Choosing Kindness

9. Media Balance Is Important (Updated)

10. What Is a Digital Footprint? 

11. Beyond the Avatar 

12. Fact or Fiction? 

13. Standing Up for Others

1. Pause & Think Online (Updated)

2. Managing Device Distractions (Updated)

3. Curiosity Tellers

4. Internet Traffic Light (Updated)

5. Words Can Help or Hurt

6. My Digital Footprint

7. How Tech Connects Us

8. Media: What's the Purpose?

9. Understanding Ads

10. Step In, Step Out

11. Is It OK to Share?

12. Fact vs. Opinion

13. Autoplay: Helpful or Not?

1. We, the Digital Citizens (Updated)

2. Keeping Online Accounts Safe 

3. Including Others When Using Tech 

4. Be a Super Digital Citizen (Updated)

5. Using Tech to Learn New Things 

6. How to Search Online 

7. Exploring Search Results 

8. Device-Free Moments (Updated)

9. Dealing with Online Meanness 

10. Sincere Apologies 

11. Digital Trails (Updated)

12. That's Private! (Updated)

13. Who Is in Your Online Community? (Updated)

1. Our Digital Citizenship Charter

2. Making Healthy Media Choices 

3. Protecting Our Online Accounts 

4. Privacy Doors 

5. Level Up: Gaming Safely Online 

6. Our Digital Footprints 

7. When Words Hurt Online 

8. Resolving Conflicts Online

9. Need Space or Repair? Handling Online Hurt 

10. Finding the Source 

11. Perfectly Altered 

12. Trending Now! 

13. Digital Identity Iceberg

14. Emoji Power: Expressing Ourselves Online 

15. Is It Just a Joke? 

16. Our Rings of Responsibility 

17. Pen Pals in a Connected World 

18. Outsmarting Attention Thieves

1. Personally Identifiable Information 

2. Media & Our Emotions 

3. Communicating Clearly Online 

4. PII: What's the Risk Factor? 

5. S.T.A.N.D. Up to Cyberbullying

6. S.I.F.T. for Sources 

7. Understanding Influencers 

8. Gone Phishing 

9. Group Chat Dynamics 

10. Spotting Thinking Traps

11. Brain Battle Game

12. Online Tracks: What Do We Control?

13. Slicing Up Media with P.I.E.

14. Peer Pressure Online 

15. How Online Meanness Escalates 

16. M.E.N.D.ing Friendships 

17. Online Reputations & Our Responsibilities 

18. Healthy Tech Habits & Our Feelings

1. Creating Device-Free Moments 

2. Challenging Stereotypes 

3. Dealing with Cyberbullying 

4. Tracking You: Taking Control of Your Privacy 

5. Friends vs. Followers 

6. Sharenting Slip-Ups 

7. Online Risk Radar 

8. Understanding Design Tricks

9. Tricky Tech Game

10. Spotting Media Influence 

11. Remix Responsibly 

12. Media Frames: Looking Beyond Headlines 

13. Don't Take the Bait!

14. Communicating Personal Boundaries 

15. S.T.A.N.D. Up to Support Others 

16. Invisible Audiences

17. Navigating Online Friendships

18. M.E.N.D. to Rebuild Trust

1. Understanding My Digital Footprint

2. PII: Should I Share?

3. Be Aware of What You Share

4. S.E.E.K.ing Information

5. Red Flags & Chatting Online

6. What Are Online Harms?

7. Your Curated Self

8. Under Peer Pressure

9. Sharing & Online Disinhibition

10. De-escalating Online Harm

11. Making Things Right: Repairing Harms

12. Web of Responsibility

13. Giving Credit

14. Is It Fair Use? AI Edition 

15. Stolen Identity

16. What is the Attention Economy?

17. Building Healthy Tech Habits: Part 1

18. Building Healthy Tech Habits: Part 2

1. Tech & Values

2. Choosing Sources

3. Care to Share?

4. Data for Sale

5. Your Data, Your Choices

6. Parasocial Relationships

7. What Are Thinking Traps?

8. Friendships & Boundaries

9. The Ripple Effects of Conflict

10. What Are Design Tricks?

11. Permission to Post

12. Boundaries & Consent

13. Evaluating Information Online

14. Bursting the Filter Bubble

15. Being an Upstander

16. The Assumptions We Make

17. How to Re-A.C.T. to Cyberbullying

18. Location Sharing & Your Privacy

1. Tech Habit Challenge: Part 1

2. Tech Habit Challenge: Part 2 

3. App Traps & Addictive Design

4. Social Engineering & Online Deception

5. Data Breach Basics

6. Facing Off with Facial Recognition

7. Social Norms & Tech

8. Life in Public

9. AI Chatbots & Friendship

10. Viral Posts & Online Reputations

11. What We See, What We Assume

12. The Pressure to Sext

13. What Is Critical Ignoring?

14. AI Algorithms: How Well Do They Know You?

15. Telephone Trouble: Mis- & Disinformation

16. When Hate Escalates 

17. S.T.A.N.D. Up to Support Friends

18. Deepfakes & Consent

• Free and ready to use: No cost barrier makes it easy to adopt in the library.

• Short, engaging content: Fits typical library class length, keeps students engaged.

• Media-rich format: Uses video/interactive activities, which is particularly appealing for digital citizenship topics.

• Flexible use: Can be used in whole-group, small-group, or individual modes.

• Aligns with librarian goals: Supporting digital literacy, media literacy, safe and responsible online behavior—core to library media programs.