---
title: Mutual Respect Online
description: In this lesson, students will explain how they can respect others online.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/r_e_s_p_e_c_t_being_safe_for_you_and_me-001.png
---

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

**Lesson Length: 30 - 40 mins**

**Topic: Digital Citizenship**

**Grade Level: 6, 7**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [ISTE: 1.2 Digital Citizen](https://www.iste.org/standards/iste-standards-for-students)

**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.

**Resources:**

- [Comic](https://share.pixton.com/qkz0vgi) to print or display
- [T-Chart](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/Printables/Graphic%20Organizers_02.pdf)

**Suggested Content:**

- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2078531202717949952/thumbnail.png) Internet ](https://content.pixton.com/internet)

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