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Online Safety

You Need to Stop Overlooking Wellness and Health Class!

by Brain Ninjas

Healthy fruits and vegetables are part of the new Health and Wellness curriculum written by the Brain Ninjas for Grades 4-6.

Are you having trouble fitting health lessons into your plans because you already have too much to teach? Stop overlooking the value of health class! You can use health lessons to teach reading and writing. You can help students in your class stay organized, play safely and get along with each other. So why are you ignoring all these important outcomes?

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips, Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Anti-Bullying, Bullying, Expected and Unexpected Behaviors, Feelings, Friendship, Goal Setting, Health, Lesson Plans, Online Safety, Responsibility, Safety, Teachers Pay Teachers, Teamwork, Wellness

How to Teach Digital Citizenship: Find Fake News and More

by Brain Ninjas

We need to teach students how to think critically about what they see online. Check out these tips and lessons you can use in your classroom to help turn your students into responsible digital citizens. Digital citizenship and online safety should be a priority in every upper elementary classroom.

We realized the importance of teaching critical thinking and fact-checking one day on Facebook. One ninja-mother-in-law posted an article about an actor that had died, but the actor had died FIVE years earlier. Yet, there she was just reposting like crazy. A dog with a piece of ham on its face was her next post and that was when we started writing our digital citizenship and online safety resource. Clearly, digital citizenship is a skill to be learned by many these days.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Classroom Technology, Digital Citizenship, Digital Safety, Educational Technology, Fake News, Health, Lesson Plans, Online Safety, Setting Up Technology, Social Media, Teachers Pay Teachers, Technology in the Classroom, Technology Integration, Wellness

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