Digital and Media Literacy Grades 7 -9

This is an NSTeens video about acceptable behaviour when playing an online game. Are you being competitive, or are you crossing the line and being a griefer?

This is a two-page tip sheet created to help youth manage their online identity.

This 3-minute animated video explains why students need to cite their sources in a bibliography and how citations are presented.

How aware are you of your digital dossier? Watch this time line of Andy's lifespan and find out when your digital dossier starts and how it grows

Keyan’s new online friend wants to meet face-to-face, but is this is a good idea? Tad and Slick don’t think so!

Here's a video with tips for how to deal with haters and trolls online.

Here's a reminder that before we post online, download a game or buy something, we should take a second to stop and think before we click. Just using our heads...

In this lesson, students examine a fictional social network profile to learn how online platforms collect data about their users.

In this lesson for grades 7 and 8, students consider how we come to hold values and how they affect our behaviour, especially online. The teacher then uses a fable to introduce students to the ways that values can be communicated both overtly and implicitly. (site)

Click if You Agree is a game that helps you develop the skills and confidence to read privacy policies and terms of use instead of just clicking on the “I agree” button. There are four scenarios to read through, choosing the most relevant parts of the policies.

This is a tip sheet that encourages teen students to think ethically about their online behaviour. The tip sheet focuses on three key messages about respect: privacy, feelings and property.

This is a collection of engaging "missions" during which students read a story on a social network feed; the story might be entirely true, entirely false, or somewhere in between.

The Canadian organization MediaSmarts has this lesson plan for grades 7-9. Students learn about online privacy and ethical behaviour by exploring their digital footprints.

Lily and Gabriela aren’t getting along, on- or offline. See examples of how pausing and considering what we post can change how things turn out.

Check out this video. It's a great reminder that the things we post online could have an impact on people in the real world.

Derived from the words ‘Net’ and ‘Etiquette,’ netiquette describes the general rules of conduct on the internet for respectful and appropriate communication