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    Mutual Respect Online

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    Subject: STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)

    Lesson Length: 30 - 40 mins

    Topic: Digital Citizenship

    Grade Level: 6, 7

    Standards / Framework:

    Brief Description: In this lesson, students will explain how they can respect others online.

    Know Before You Start: This lesson provides a great springboard to discuss the signs of cyberbullying.

    Hook:

    • Read and discuss the sample comic.
      • What did the character do wrong?
      • Why was posting that picture disrespectful?
      • What should they have done to respect their friend?

    Activity:

    • Using the sample comic as a guide, have students create a three-to-four-panel comic in which they explain how to respect the rights and privacy of others.
      • Panels 1-2: Introduce an online situation or conflict. 
      • Panels 3-4: Illustrate your character making the right and respectful choice.

    Closure:

    • Allow students to share and discuss their comics with the class or with a partner.

    Differentiation:

    • 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.
    • Create an anchor chart of other examples of cyberbullying. 
    • Provide sentence frames for the student comic.

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