This lesson introduces children to different ways young people have used the internet to work toward positive social change.

As children use digital media with increasing frequency, advertisers who work with digital platforms continue to understand kids as an ideal target audience. Among other things, this means it is important to help children learn to read online ads sensibly and critically.

This lesson focuses on what it means to produce digital content and share information using online platforms.

Students will discuss basic guidelines for maintaining privacy and security online. To help them internalize these rules, students will illustrate what it would mean to follow each guideline.

This lesson aims to help students learn to safely and respectfully participate in different kinds of digital communities.

By learning about search algorithms, students will start to understand that the information they get from searching online does not simply materialize out of thin air! This understanding will enable students to critically evaluate search results.

This lesson, part of the Digital Literacy series, addresses the importance of locating and verifying reliable sources when working with online information.

This lesson helps students analyze and critique messages about gender that they get from various media. Students will focus on toys and toy advertisements, challenging themselves to think past what advertisements tell them about their gender identity.

This lesson seeks to open students’ eyes to the variety of experiences that they and their classmates have at lunchtime. Students learn about the dietary guidelines of various ethnic and religious groups and then analyze their cafeteria's food offerings.

Students will learn how air pollution affects people of color and those living in poverty and will use a map to locate environmental injustice.