Common Sense Media: Digital Literacy & Well-Being Curriculum
Free K–8 lessons to prepare students for life, online and off!
Common Sense Media’s Digital Literacy & Well-Being curriculum gives teachers a free, research-backed framework for building students’ digital literacy skills. From AI literacy and social media to cyberbullying, screen time, and digital footprint, the curriculum covers the digital challenges students face every day as well as the offline skills they need to manage them.
The curriculum is designed for grades K–8, with more than 140 updated lessons that reflect what students are actually encountering today. Whether you’re introducing digital literacy and well-being concepts for the first time or updating what you’ve been teaching for years, this is a good place to start.
How can I take care of my device?
How do we say goodbye to devices when we don’t want to?
This lesson helps young learners identify media in their daily lives through familiar examples like books, movies, and TV shows.
What do you do if you get an icky feeling when using your device?
How can we be active listeners when using devices?
How can we go places safely online?
Help students understand what it means to stand up for others and practice using their two superpowers: kind words and asking for help.
By learning to question what they see, students develop early critical thinking skills for their media experiences.
Students create their own avatars and explore the different parts of themselves that make them unique.
Students learn that every online photo, message, and activity creates a record that others might see.
How can we practice healthy habits with technology?
What does kindness look like when we’re using technology?
Can technology features be both helpful and unhelpful to me?
What is the difference between a fact and an opinion?
What information is safe to share online? What should we keep private?
When things go wrong with tech, how can we give friends the space they need?
What are ads, and what do they want us to do?
Who creates the media we see, and why do they make it?
How can technology keep us together even if our family, friends, and loved ones are far away?
How do our words affect others when we’re online?
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Free K–8 lessons to prepare students for life, online and off!
Common Sense Media’s Digital Literacy & Well-Being curriculum gives teachers a free, research-backed framework for building students’ digital literacy skills. From AI literacy and social media to cyberbullying, screen time, and digital footprint, the curriculum covers the digital challenges students face every day as well as the offline skills they need to manage them.
The curriculum is designed for grades K–8, with more than 140 updated lessons that reflect what students are actually encountering today. Whether you’re introducing digital literacy and well-being concepts for the first time or updating what you’ve been teaching for years, this is a good place to start.
How can I take care of my device?
How do we say goodbye to devices when we don’t want to?
This lesson helps young learners identify media in their daily lives through familiar examples like books, movies, and TV shows.
What do you do if you get an icky feeling when using your device?
How can we be active listeners when using devices?
How can we go places safely online?
Help students understand what it means to stand up for others and practice using their two superpowers: kind words and asking for help.
By learning to question what they see, students develop early critical thinking skills for their media experiences.
Students create their own avatars and explore the different parts of themselves that make them unique.
Students learn that every online photo, message, and activity creates a record that others might see.
How can we practice healthy habits with technology?
What does kindness look like when we’re using technology?
Can technology features be both helpful and unhelpful to me?
What is the difference between a fact and an opinion?
What information is safe to share online? What should we keep private?
When things go wrong with tech, how can we give friends the space they need?
What are ads, and what do they want us to do?
Who creates the media we see, and why do they make it?
How can technology keep us together even if our family, friends, and loved ones are far away?
How do our words affect others when we’re online?
