Ethical Use of Information Curation Collection

Technology - Internet Safety
Appropriate for grades K-3

Teachers and students can interact with the animated educational videos that covers digital citizenship, all of which are accompanied by interactive quizzes, activities, and games. Help students take ownership of of their digital lives. Ready to use resources can be embedded in teacher lessons, curriculum guides and aligned with standards. Sound is available for everything to be read to the pre-emergent and emergent readers. Check out the closed caption option for the hearing impaired!

Technology - Digital Citizenship/Copyright/Plagiarism/Etc.
Appropriate for grades K-8

Teachers and students can interact with the animated educational videos that covers digital citizenship, all of which are accompanied by interactive quizzes, activities, and games. Help students take ownership of of their digital lives. Ready to use resources can be embedded in teacher lessons, curriculum guides and aligned with standards. Check out the closed caption option for the hearing impaired!

Digital Citizenship
Appropriate for grades K-12
Available in English and Spanish

Want to help students take ownership of of their digital lives? Common Sense is the nation's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century. These ready to use resources can be embedded in teacher lessons, curriculum guides and aligned with standards.

Digital Citizenship
Appropriate for grades 3-12

Code.org uses resources from Common Sense Media to provide teachers with a lesson plan on digital citizenship. The lesson will take about thirty minutes. This lesson is appropriate for all grade levels but is catered to the upper grades. Lessons helps students identify personal versus private online information.

Digital Citizenship Education Handbook
Appropriate for grades K-12

Do you want more up-to-date information that support educators about digital citizenship in today's digital world? The digital citizenship education handbook is intended for teachers. It offers information, fact sheets, tools and good practice to support educators in the development of digital competences needed to empower and protect children.

Digital Citizenship/Copyright/Plagiarism
Appropriate for grades K-12

Teachers Pay Teachers is a community of educators who have come together to share their work, insights, and inspiration with one another each other. Browse digital citizenship, copyright and plagiarism resources in various digital and downloadable formats on Teachers Pay Teachers. Use these resources to teach students how to use information in an ethical way.

Digital Safety
Appropriate for grades 3-5
Available in English and Spanish

Digital Passport offers engaging games that address key issues facing kids in today's digital world. Students learn foundational skills from online games and videos while expanding their learning through additional wraparound content. Have fun while learning!

Create Citations
Appropriate for grades 6-12

EasyBib is a citation generator and bibliography creator available for student use. It helps in preventing plagiarism after you have completed writing your essay or creating your presentation. Cite your information in minutes! Students can also upload their paper to the EasyBib Plus plagiarism checker to see a list of sources that may be related to your paper and need to be cited.

Digital citizenship infographic
Appropriate for grades K-12

Looking for some technology integration ideas to enhance your classroom lessons? Use the infographic to teach students about how to be safe and respectful when utilizing digital networks and social media sites. Now use the information pertinent to your class and create your infographic to display.

Free Public Domain Access
Appropriate for grades K-12

Pics4Learning is a curated image library that is safe and free for education. It allows teachers and students to use the copyright-friendly images for classroom projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other projects in an educational setting. Simply download your image or save to your Google drive.

Ethical Use of Information
Appropriate for grades 6-12

Want to protect yourself from copyright infringement? This site can be utilized by teachers and students to locate various sites to find images, music and videos for projects. Choose materials that are in the public domain or licensed for the intended use.

Internet Safety Information
Appropriate for grades K-12
Available in English and Spanish

Videos, blogs, tip sheets, classroom activities for educators to offer multiple ways to engage students in important lessons in digital citizenship and online safety. Help students take ownership of of their digital lives. These are ready to use resources that can be utilized in the classroom with students. This is a free resource.

Research Skills
Appropriate for grades K-12

A basic framework for teaching and promoting information literacy, research skills, or an information problem-solving process. The Big6 process
encourages teaching partnerships of library media specialists and classroom teachers to ensure the success of all students.

Citations for Beginners
Appropriate for grades 2-8

Teachers and students can enjoy this short video about citation basics! Learn what plagiarism is, why citations are created, the format of citations in MLA format. This video could serve as an introduction or reminder of using information in an ethical way.

Digital Citizenship
Appropriate for grades K-3

Students need experience sharing and connecting online with others in a variety of environments. This is a teacher resource on how to guide students to the knowledge and experience they need to act responsibly online.

Create a Bibliography

ZoteroBib is a free service without ads to help people quickly create bibliographies without installing any software or creating an account. Teachers can recommend students use this site to cite references.