Digital Literacy and Citizenship Classroom Curriculum
Take the grounded approach to teaching a slippery subject
Common Sense Media offers this FREE Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum to help educators empower their students and their school communities to be safe, responsible, and savvy as they navigate this fast-paced digital world.
- NO COST to your school. It's all free thanks to generous support from our philanthropic supporters.
- Research-based learning. We created the lessons with the support of leading researchers from around the country.
- Video-rich and real-world. Students engage quickly and stay plugged in because you're using kid-tested media resources to teach the new media.
- Total teaching flexibility. Integrate the modular lessons with any subject in any order. Online and print materials let you teach in any classroom and send lessons home to engage parents.
- Compliant and aligned. The curriculum helps you comply with E-Rate's education requirement, and it's aligned to ISTE, AALS, and Common Core standards.
- Currently available for grades K-12.
Get Started With Our Curriculum Scope & Sequence
Our interactive scope & sequence makes it easy to map out a digital citizenship lesson plan for your students. Click a topic to highlight the lessons that best suit your needs, or just browse by grade band. The cross-curricular units spiral to address digital literacy and citizenship topics in an age-appropriate way.
More Curriculum Resources
Our toolkits put all of the resources you need to teach students about cyberbullying, E-rate/CIPA compliance, and Gender & Digital Life at your fingertips. In each toolkit, you'll find lesson plans, activities, videos, and parent outreach materials - your one stop shop!
Digital Passport™, Common Sense Media’s newest interactive curricular tool, helps elementary educators arm students with crucial digital literacy and citizenship skills through fun, video-rich learning modules.
From social-networking profiles to cyberbullying to content creation, digital media is creating both possibility and peril in kids’ lives. Through the iTunes U app, every high school-age student with an iPad can access Common Sense Media’s self-guided, interactive lessons anytime, anywhere.
