Help kids practice smart internet habits and stay safe online.

Educators' approach to internet safety in the classroom has changed as technology and our use of it continues to evolve. In the past, digital citizenship lessons on internet safety focused more on dos and don'ts, like do create safe passwords and don't talk to strangers online. While secure passwords are certainly important for technology users of all ages, and stranger danger is nothing to take lightly, most internet safety dilemmas are much more nuanced.

The best internet safety lessons recognize the complexity of these topics and help students build the critical-thinking skills and habits of mind to navigate the dilemmas they encounter. Included are the best internet safety lesson plans for students in grades K–12.

Read each scenario below and find two “opportunity costs” for each situation. What was given up, financially, time spent doing something else, other lost experiences, etc.?

This activity involves four scenarios where the students will uncover the opportunity costs for each scenario (every decision involves a trade-off). The opportunity cost is the profit lost (or total cost- financial and non-financial costs) when one alternative is chosen over another. A trade-off is understanding that you are going to lose something, in relation to time, money, or energy, when the decision to choose something else is made.  When you buy or do one thing with your money, you must give up the chance to buy or do something else. This is a trade-off: what you give up to get what you want. When you spend part of your income on certain things, you give up spending it on other things.

"Five Ways People Are Dumb With Money Listening Guide and video" - Humans can’t quite remove emotions from the money-making decisions process!  Video: https://youtu.be/n1b7piSmmME?si=bi0PwhForYpec3cq

A sample of 1,014 parents of 8 to 14 year olds nationally and their kids, analyzed parent attitudes and behaviors that were associated with kids' financial habits. The survey found that positive money behaviors and expectations among kids are often associated with parents' decision to let their kids decide how to save and spend their money on their own. as well as modeling good financial habits. Conversely, troubling financial habits among kids were more frequently seen when parents have a troubling history with money. 

Artifact: From Tracey Uhrich at RCHS for Outcome WA10.1 (Workplace and Apprenticeship Math 10)

Artifact Description: Students need to gather data from grocery store and make decisions on best to purchase. They must work together to put their findings into a PowerPoint to share with their peers.

Character Playbook is an innovative digital course that uses engaging strategies to educate students about cultivating and maintaining healthy relationships during their critical middle school years. Comprised of six lessons that cover key concepts around positive character development, social-emotional learning (SEL), and building healthy relationships, Character Playbook allows students to engage with real-world scenarios, including examples of bystander intervention, resolving conflicts, effective communication, and positive relationships.

This Course Covers
Analyzing Influences
Understanding & Managing Emotions
Communicating Effectively
Resolving Conflicts
Stepping In
Making Decisions

Comic Book titled “The Game Plan” by The Healthy Aboriginal Network https://istorystudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Game-Plan.pdf The Healthy Aboriginal Network’s Game Plan is a comic book for Aboriginal youth featuring a teenager named Jake who struggled with financial wellbeing until he was taught a lesson or two in financial literacy. Making the right financial decisions helped Jake achieve his goals and feel financially empowered. 

Apply decision-making strategies to various financial scenarios.

Teacher Guide Provided
3-5 hours

Help students reflect on how their digital lives impact their social and emotional well-being in three simple steps.

1. Engage students in daily activities
2. Build your digital citizenship roadmap
3. Promote digital citizenship in your community

"Introduce students in grades 6–8 to Digital Compass™ by Common Sense Education. The award-winning game is an innovative way to give students the freedom to explore how decisions made in their digital lives can affect their relationships and futures.

Through the suite of popular choose-your-own-path games, students play through the perspective of one of eight main characters, each of whom is facing a different digital citizenship dilemma. The varied story paths and multiple decision points encourage students to play repeatedly in order to explore alternative courses of action. Games are also available in Spanish."

Students will be able to:
• Find facts and gather data for conscientious decisions
• Synthesize information and evaluate options
• Assess situations in order to make informed judgments
• Reflect on decisions and determine alternative choices
• Build interpersonal empathy by role-playing and taking the perspective of others
• Develop skill-based competencies through game-based learning
• Apply learnings to real-world situations

This is an excellent program for teaching young kids emotion identification, regulation, and social relationships.

"Emotional ABCs Classroom is a research-based Social Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum providing teachers (K–3) with 20 sequential Workshops and extensive classroom support materials for Teacher-led, in-class instruction."

This program teaches:
Self-Awareness
Social Awareness
Self-Management
Responsible Decision-Making
Relationship Skills

"Emotional ABCs Workshops are designed for teacher-led classroom instruction. Your free single user account gives you access to all resources needed to present the Workshops.

All Workshops include a Warm-Up, Mini-Lesson, Activity, Share-Out, and a Self-Reflection, and each can be taught as a 'stand-alone' lesson to target specific skills.

Instructors can teach directly from online Workshops or printable PDFs.

Emotional ABCs Classroom uses a common emotional language throughout the curriculum which can be readily adopted school-wide with minimal teacher training."

Students can learn the 101 of Financial Literacy in this online course. Its engaging, animated, visual and interactive!
Teachers can set up an online classroom and manage their students' progress through the modules.
This includes quizzes, assignments, discussion prompts, additional learning in the "sidetrips" section.
With a fun, dynamic guide that makes money feel empowering, financial literacy becomes a life-long that that pays dividends.
Modules:
1. Money Basics and the Economy
2. Setting Goals and Making Wise Consumer Decisions
3. Getting Money: Employment
4. Getting Money: Self Employment - Are You An Entrepreneur?
5. Spending on Major Purchases
6. Borrowing Money
7. Putting Your Money to Work- Saving and Investing Money
8. Protecting Your Money and Things of Value
9. Financial Independence
10. Managing Your Money

"Click on an outcome to access relevant resources and suggested activities to help students meet outcomes in the Saskatchewan Financial Literacy 10 curriculum.

Notes:
Since this is a new curriculum, our resources will be updated throughout the 2024-2025 school year.
If you have suggestions for additions, or you notice any errors, please contact admin@saskmoney.ca."

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The website offers a variety of resources, including information, tools, quizzes, and games, designed to assist both parents and students in making informed financial choices across different aspects of life.

These student handouts contain good background information on the history of citizenship in Canada, as well as decision making.

The High Way Home is an interactive website by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse and Addiction. Students make choices about whether they would use alcohol or cannabis at a party and then plan for a way home.
The website offers a quiz at the end of the journey.

This is a collection of resources to assist with infusing Indigenous knowledge, culture and values into the Financial Literacy Module 2 The Decision-Making Process (core Introductory).Outcome: Apply decision-making strategies to various personal and community financial scenarios.

Bright, beautiful, interactive and simple to use, Managing your money offers a series of seven worksheets to help Indigenous individuals and families to set and work towards money goals. Each financial topic and activity features artwork by Simon Brascoupé paired with a teaching from the animal world that draws on their skills, strengths and experiences in managing resources. These worksheets are designed to facilitate one-on-one conversations or to be used in financial education workshops (and in fillable pdf format)  They can be used in the order they appear, or in a different order that fits best with the individual. This resource also includes recorded webinar, with faciliator guide, blank slides to make your own presenation, and full booklets in English, French, Cree and Ojibwe.