Your digital footprint: 6th to 8th computers & making
Digital footprint: public and private. A free 6th to 8th lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: digital footprint: public and private.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: What happens to what you post?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (15 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: your digital footprint.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner or a small group the idea in their own words.
Practise (20 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Learn: Your Digital Footprint (https://peabody.kids/world/online/online-digital-footprint)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about your digital footprint, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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