This sequenced collection, curated by Seattle Public School educators, contains openly-licensed Digital Citizenship resources for K-5 educators.
These lessons are part of the Reform to Equal Rights K-12 Disability History Curriculum from Emerging America, part of the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Consortium.
This unit examines how people seek social and political change to secure their rights. Students explore ideas about disability and learn the many innovative and effective ways that people with disabilities have advocated for their rights across United States history. Lesson 2 focuses on immigration and exclusion; it can stand alone or support this unit; or it could help build a full unit on immigration. In the conclusion of the unit, students evaluate and make a case about how disability advocates made change.
Grades 4-5 - Lesson 1: What is "Disability"?
Grades 4-5 - Lesson 2: Immigration: Who Is In? And Who Is Out?
Grades 4-5 - Lesson 3: History of the Disability Rights Movement
Grades 4-5 - Lesson 4: How Disability Activists Created Change
Reform to Equal Rights uses 250+ primary sources. Most are in the public domain. Many others come from public online collections. For the rest, Emerging America secured permission so that teachers can use all these sources in creative ways. https://www.emergingamerica.org/disability-history-curriculum.
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The inquiry helps students examine the responsibility of being a citizen both in the real world and the online world. In answering the compelling question “How is being a citizen online the same as being one in real life?” students will identify the attitudes and actions necessary to be a good citizen. The unit offers 12 lessons with formative performance tasks for educators to choose from depending on the age and needs of their students. Each provides students with opportunities to collect evidence and an understanding of how online behavior and boundaries are comparable to those necessary in the real world. At the end of the inquiry, students create an explanation and identify examples of the correlation between online and real life communities. Unit created by NCESD teachers: Sara Bedient, Sasha Dart, Brittany Jones, Krystina Nelson, Julia Spanjer, Keirstin Stansbury, Brittney Therriault
10-lesson fifth grade unit to build classroom culture focused on identity, diversity and community.