A tool that I use in my own classroom is Common Sense Media. This organization has lesson plans that utilize slide presentations and attached pdf's to teach the different concepts of Digital Citizenship that are differentiated by grade level and uses videos to instruct learners on different parts of digital citizenship.
Videos on YouTube provide great visuals for breaking down the concepts of Digital Citizenship for students at the lower elementary level that may have a harder time understanding the concepts.
The following is a great video that introduces Digital Citizenship: We Are Digital Citizens
Digital Citizenship: How Can You Model It?
A way to model digital citizenship is through lessons that expose learners to different situations and how to act wisely. For modeling the Digital Citizenship Concept: Media Balance, my lesson began with watching a Sesame Short that had to do with the rule of no devices at dinner. It showed all Sesame Street characters putting their devices away and sitting down to the dinner table. Cookie Monster broke the rules by playing a game on his cell phone at the table and the others had to remind him of the rule. His silly actions that follow gave my K and 1 students a big giggle.
First and Second graders watched the Common Sense Media video on "Media Balance". This free lesson can be accessed at https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/lesson/finding-my-media-balance.
To model this in a real life way, I gave a scenario of someone texting and trying to have a conversation and pretended to do so with a volunteer student. We laughed at how little I was able to comprehend of what the student was telling me. We then played a game that demonstrated how easily it is for electronics to be a distraction since the focus of this digital citizenship lesson was "media balance" https://www.digitalpassport.org/twalkers.html. We discussed what "walkers" were (people who text, walk, and talk at the same time) and how often we see that in real life.
Following this we talked about times where parents may tell them to put their electronics away. Students brainstormed times such as while doing homework, at dinner, visiting family members, and at bedtime. We then read Blackout by John Rocco. All K through 3 students LOVED this read aloud. I was able to find an animated version on YouTube (https://youtu.be/6xhrb0T12Dk). Grades K and 1 students then had to draw a picture of a time they did not use electronics while grades 2 and 3 had to write about a "specific" time that their parent or guardian told them they could not use an electronic.
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