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= Lancaster Mennonite School's Online Safety and Digital Citizenship Curriculum K-12 =

Lancaster Mennonite School educates all students about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms and cyberbullying awareness and response.

Teachers are encouraged to emphasize Online Safety, Digital Citizenship and Information Literacy regularly throughout the year in conversation and during Internet activities in the classroom. Requirements for each grade span the indicated topics listed below. Detailed lessons with excellent resources on the required topics are listed by grade level on the right sidebar. Teachers have the flexibility to teach the required lessons in any order, to expand lessons and to revisit topics.

The topics are based on the strands and units developed by Common Sense Media.
 * SAFETY (Staying safe when connecting with others online when blogging, gaming, chatting, on social networking sites, Recognizing predator grooming)
 * SECURITY (Setting strong passwords, Scams, Identity theft, Privacy policies)
 * DIGITAL LIFE (Limiting online activities, Avoiding inappropriate sites/images)
 * PRIVACY & DIGITAL FOOTPRINTS (Sexting / Revealing too much)
 * SELF-EXPRESSION & IDENTITY (How you present yourself online)
 * CONNECTED CULTURE (Cyberbullying / Online Community Building)
 * RESPECTING CREATIVE WORK (copyright, fair use)
 * SEARCHING / RESEARCH AND EVALUATION (Citing sources, Determining validity & purpose of sites)

[|LMS Online Safety Curriculum K-12]This is the "Plan" that we submitted as a district. It lists the topics we are going to teach by grade level, as well as links to the resources we are using. Any Questions, contact: Val Garton or Todd Bowman