Digital Citizenship
Practice making smart choices online and in life with these free games and activities.
Resources for Grades 6–8

Video
grades 4–6
Reading News Online
What are the different parts of a news article or website? Learn how to identify them and make sure you're consuming more trustworthy info.


Activity
grades 6–8
Looking Carefully at the News
The news can cause strong feelings. Read some headlines and consider how they might influence someone's reactions.
Video
grades 6–12
How to Fact-Check History
Learn from a professional fact-checker how to verify information—including events that happened a long time ago.
Video
grades 6–12
How to Choose Your News
Learn how opinions and facts affect the news and how to tell them apart.

Video
Preschool–grade 8
What Does It Mean to Be a Digital Citizen?
Reflect on your digital life as you watch this video. Think about how you will act, create, learn, and lead. How will you be a digital citizen today?


Lesson
grades 8–12
Targeted Political Ads
Explore the ways microtargeted political ads attempt to influence elections. Watch the video, and then use the worksheet and discussion questions to dig deeper.

Video
grades 4–6
Digital Life 101
Use this video to reflect on the media you consume, create, and share. Consider drawing out a map similar to the one in the video.


Activity
grades 6–8
Bystanders and Upstanders
When we see digital drama or cyberbullying, we have a choice: We can be bystanders or upstanders. Talk through a few ways you can be an upstander.

Activity
grades 6–8
If I Share __ What Will Happen?
How can actions online affect others, both positively and negatively? Think through the consequences of different types of online posts.

Activity
grades 6–8
Digital Footprints: Looking at Our Online Selves
Evaluate your own digital footprint and decide: What impression do you think you make? How do others see you online?

Interactive
grades 2–6
Interland: Be Internet Awesome
Explore four islands in this game by Google that covers key digital citizenship topics like protecting privacy, sharing safely, and being kind online.

Activity
grades 6–8
Protecting Your Personal Info
Find out what personal information you might be giving up when you're online. Which online activities should you avoid, and which are OK?

Activity
grades 6–8
Looking Carefully at the News
The news can cause strong feelings. Read some headlines and consider how they might influence someone's reactions.

Activity
grades 6–8
Bystanders and Upstanders
When we see digital drama or cyberbullying, we have a choice: We can be bystanders or upstanders. Talk through a few ways you can be an upstander.

Activity
grades 6–8
If I Share __ What Will Happen?
How can actions online affect others, both positively and negatively? Think through the consequences of different types of online posts.

Activity
grades 6–8
Digital Footprints: Looking at Our Online Selves
Evaluate your own digital footprint and decide: What impression do you think you make? How do others see you online?

Activity
grades 6–8
Protecting Your Personal Info
Find out what personal information you might be giving up when you're online. Which online activities should you avoid, and which are OK?

Activity
grades 6–8
Balance with Bedtime Checklist
Not getting enough sleep affects our physical health, our emotions, and how well we work. Make sure your devices aren't stealing your sleep!

Activity
grades 6–12
If You Taught Online Safety…
Read this info about online safety, then imagine you're teaching it to younger kids. Make it interesting by creating a slideshow, movie, poster, or comic.

Activity
grades 6–12
Data Detox Kit
This activity book helps young people put their privacy and well-being first by taking back control from tech and media.

Activity
grades 6–8
My Media Choices Inventory
Use the worksheet to chart out your media diet. Ask a family member or friend to do it too. Think about and discuss the results.

Interactive
grades 2–6
Interland: Be Internet Awesome
Explore four islands in this game by Google that covers key digital citizenship topics like protecting privacy, sharing safely, and being kind online.

Interactive
grades 6–12
News Feed Defenders
Understand the essential qualities of good journalism, how news goes viral, and common tactics employed in news to deceive or manipulate reads.

Interactive
grades 6–8
Digital Compass™
Explore how decisions made in your digital life can affect your relationships and future.

Interactive
grades 7–12
News Literacy Quiz
Test your critical-thinking skills with this free app that uses actual examples of deceptive (and not) media.

Lesson
grades 8–12
Targeted Political Ads
Explore the ways microtargeted political ads attempt to influence elections. Watch the video, and then use the worksheet and discussion questions to dig deeper.

Lesson
grades 8–12
How Netflix Keeps You Watching
Check out this video about Netflix's manipulative thumbnails. Work through the discussion questions to think through the benefits and costs of data-driven media platforms.

Lesson
grades 7–9
Digital Media and Your Brain
In this lesson, students consider how digital media tries to get them hooked, and what they can do about it.

Lesson
grades 6–8
Self-Guided Social Media Lessons
Work through one of these research-backed simulations that'll help you practice the skills you need to navigate tricky and challenging situations on social media.

Lesson
grades 8–12
Is Breaking News Broken?
Work through this lesson plan that'll help you consider how social media has affected breaking news as well as elections and voting.

Video
grades 4–6
Reading News Online
What are the different parts of a news article or website? Learn how to identify them and make sure you're consuming more trustworthy info.

Video
grades 6–12
How to Fact-Check History
Learn from a professional fact-checker how to verify information—including events that happened a long time ago.
Video
grades 6–12
How to Choose Your News
Learn how opinions and facts affect the news and how to tell them apart.

Video
Preschool–grade 8
What Does It Mean to Be a Digital Citizen?
Reflect on your digital life as you watch this video. Think about how you will act, create, learn, and lead. How will you be a digital citizen today?


Video
grades 4–6
Digital Life 101
Use this video to reflect on the media you consume, create, and share. Consider drawing out a map similar to the one in the video.

Video
grades 6–12
Protecting Your Privacy
Learn how your private info can end up online, whether you intended it to or not.

Video
grades 6–12
Avoid Common Online Issues
Watch these videos that tackle lots of online issues like cyberbullying, sharing photos, and online identity from teens' perspectives.

Video
grades 8–12
Sexting, Relationships, and Risks
Watch teens' honest -- and sometimes frank -- thoughts about the pressures and risks that come with sexting. How would you react in similar situations?


Video
grades 7–9
Oversharing and Your Digital Footprint
Listen to other students' thoughts and experiences with social media. Do you think you're an oversharer?


Video
grades 6–8
What's in Your Digital Footprint
Find out what a digital footprint is and how you should think about it before posting and sharing information online.


Video
grades 6–12
What Is Digital Citizenship?
Learn what skills you need to become an awesome digital citizen.


Video
grades 4–6
What's Cyberbullying?
What counts as cyberbullying? Learn what it is, and what it isn't, and give kids important tools they'll need to combat the problem.


Website/App
grades K–12
Digital Citizenship Curriculum
Help students take ownership of their digital lives with lessons that address the digital dilemmas they face today, and give them the skills they need to succeed as digital learners.

Website/App
grades 7–12
Applied Digital Skills
Practical project-based lessons teach critical computer skills.

Website/App
grades K–12
Digital Citizenship Resources
Prepare kids to think critically and use technology in positive, creative, and powerful ways (available in multiple languages).