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Cyber Civics: Digital On-Ramps

This engaging SEL + Digital Literacy program prepares 4th & 5th graders to use technology safely and wisely by focusing on the social emotional skills they will need when they go online. Includes turnkey lesson plans, hands-on activities, engaging videos, and student worksheets. For more information, visit www.cybercivics.com

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About this course

Digital On-Ramps is packed with engaging lessons that hone the social-emotional skills 4th and 5th graders need to use technology safely and wisely. Like our popular middle school digital literacy curriculum—Cyber Civics—these in-classroom lessons are fun and easy to teach. This research-based program meets national educational standards (CASEL Social-Emotional Competencies, ISTE Tech Standards, and Common Core ELA Standards) as it prepares students for the challenges of online life. 

Designed by teachers for teachers

Inside you’ll find entertaining videos featuring our intrepid owl mascot who is just learning to use the Internet too! Whether you show these videos in the classroom or not, you can use our lesson plans to deliver these lessons in the classroom (or at home!). Each includes an engaging hands-on activity plus student activity worksheets. Lessons sometimes include homework.

Why Digital Literacy + SEL go hand-in-hand

In a meta-analysis of 213 school-based SEL (Social Emotional Learning) programs, participants demonstrated significantly improved social and emotional skills, attitudes, and behavior, as well as an 11-percentile-point gain in academic performance. The social-emotional competencies—Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, and Responsible Decision-Making—are in high demand online too! These are the skills students desperately need in order to avoid the pitfalls of online life and to know how to engage, safely and wisely, with the flood of information (and people!) they will encounter online. 

Part 1 (avail. now) includes 20 lessons in 2 units ("Using Values to Guide You" & "Getting Ready to Take Flight")

Part 2 (coming June '24) will add 20 additional lessons and another unit ("Are You Really Ready?).

 

 

Curriculum

  • Introduction
  • Getting Started Guide
  • Unit 1: Using Values To Guide You
  • 1 & 2: What Is a Value? What Are Your Values?
  • 3. Values Can Guide You Online
  • 4. The Value of Kindness
  • 5. Showing Kindness Online
  • 6. The Value of Self-Discipline
  • 7. Practicing Self-Discipline Online
  • 8. The Value of Tact
  • 9. Showing Tact Online
  • 10. The Value of Mindfulness
  • 11. Practicing Mindfulness Online
  • 12. The Value of Responsibility
  • 13. Being Responsible Online
  • Unit 2: Getting Ready To Take Flight
  • 14. A Short History of the Internet
  • 15. How The Internet Works
  • 16. What Does It Mean To Be "Online"?
  • 17. Let's Get Ready To Search
  • 18. Going Through Your Search Results
  • 19. Taking Care of Your Devices
  • 20. Finding Just The Right Balance

About this course

Digital On-Ramps is packed with engaging lessons that hone the social-emotional skills 4th and 5th graders need to use technology safely and wisely. Like our popular middle school digital literacy curriculum—Cyber Civics—these in-classroom lessons are fun and easy to teach. This research-based program meets national educational standards (CASEL Social-Emotional Competencies, ISTE Tech Standards, and Common Core ELA Standards) as it prepares students for the challenges of online life. 

Designed by teachers for teachers

Inside you’ll find entertaining videos featuring our intrepid owl mascot who is just learning to use the Internet too! Whether you show these videos in the classroom or not, you can use our lesson plans to deliver these lessons in the classroom (or at home!). Each includes an engaging hands-on activity plus student activity worksheets. Lessons sometimes include homework.

Why Digital Literacy + SEL go hand-in-hand

In a meta-analysis of 213 school-based SEL (Social Emotional Learning) programs, participants demonstrated significantly improved social and emotional skills, attitudes, and behavior, as well as an 11-percentile-point gain in academic performance. The social-emotional competencies—Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, and Responsible Decision-Making—are in high demand online too! These are the skills students desperately need in order to avoid the pitfalls of online life and to know how to engage, safely and wisely, with the flood of information (and people!) they will encounter online. 

Part 1 (avail. now) includes 20 lessons in 2 units ("Using Values to Guide You" & "Getting Ready to Take Flight")

Part 2 (coming June '24) will add 20 additional lessons and another unit ("Are You Really Ready?).

 

 

Curriculum

  • Introduction
  • Getting Started Guide
  • Unit 1: Using Values To Guide You
  • 1 & 2: What Is a Value? What Are Your Values?
  • 3. Values Can Guide You Online
  • 4. The Value of Kindness
  • 5. Showing Kindness Online
  • 6. The Value of Self-Discipline
  • 7. Practicing Self-Discipline Online
  • 8. The Value of Tact
  • 9. Showing Tact Online
  • 10. The Value of Mindfulness
  • 11. Practicing Mindfulness Online
  • 12. The Value of Responsibility
  • 13. Being Responsible Online
  • Unit 2: Getting Ready To Take Flight
  • 14. A Short History of the Internet
  • 15. How The Internet Works
  • 16. What Does It Mean To Be "Online"?
  • 17. Let's Get Ready To Search
  • 18. Going Through Your Search Results
  • 19. Taking Care of Your Devices
  • 20. Finding Just The Right Balance