At a Glance:

Grades:4, 5
Subject:STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)
Topic:Digital Citizenship
Lesson Length:30 - 40 mins

Standards / Framework:

What will students learn in this activity?

In this lesson, students will describe a beneficial way to utilize the Internet and/or social media that impacts the greater good.

What should students know before this activity?

It helps for students to be familiar with different ways the internet is used.

How can teachers introduce this lesson?

  • Read and discuss the sample comic.
    • How can technology be used to help others?
    • How can the internet or social media be used to impact our community for good?

What will students do?

  • Using the sample comic as a guide, have students create a two-to-three-panel comic explaining how they can use the Internet or social media in a way that benefits their community e.g., spread messages of positivity or kindness, an environmental campaign, charitable work, etc.

How can teachers wrap up the lesson?

  • Have students share and discuss their comics with the class or in pairs.

How can teachers differentiate this activity?

  • Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
  • Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
  • Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.
  • Provide sentence frames as needed.

Related Resources:

  • Comic to print or display

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