BCPS Digital Citizenship Scope & Sequence K-12
Introduced
Skills/Learning Targets
Reinforced
K
1
2
3
Mastered and Sustained
4
5
6-8
9-12
Family Engagement Activities

Recognize and describe potential risks and
dangers of various online activities.
Understand that similar rules for staying
safe from strangers need to be followed in
real life and on the Internet.
Internet
Safety
Family Tip Sheet from Common
Sense Media on Digital Life
(Secondary):
https://www.commonsensemedia.or
g/sites/default/files/uploads/pdfs/68-familytip-digital_life_052915.pdf
Identify and apply guidelines for safe online
behavior.
Understand that all sites on the Internet
are not for children and be able to learn to
find appropriate sites and content for
children.

Protect one’s own individual privacy online
and respect the privacy of others online.
Privacy &
Security
Explain responsible uses of digital
information and technology and describe
possible consequences of inappropriate use
as outlined in the Student Acceptable Use
Policy (SAUP).
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Office of Digital Learning
Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Privacy (Elementary):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/pdfs/k-5familytip-privacyanddigitalfootprints.pdf
Skills/Learning Targets
K
1
2
3
4
5
6-8
9-12
Family Engagement Activities

Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Online Security (Secondary):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/classroom_curri
culum/6-12-familytip-onlinesecurity.pdf

Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Talking Safely Online
(Elementary):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/pdfs/k-5familytip-talkingsafelyonline_043015.pdf

Texting Tips for Parents, a video for
parents from Common Sense Media:
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/vi
deos/texting-tips-for-parents

Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Talking Safely Online (Middle):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/classroom_curri
culum/6-8-familytip-safeonlinetalk.pdf
Follow guidelines for safe and secure
usernames and passwords.
Privacy &
Security
Learn and use online privacy terms and
learn about how companies collect
information about visitors to their website.
Define digital citizenship.
Compare and contrast how they are
connected to different people and places,
in person and on the Internet.
Relationships &
Communication
Understand that when accessing the
Internet, it connects people in an online
community.
Define and apply rules for digital etiquette.
Understand how to handle inappropriate
online talk and uncomfortable situations.
Describe activities available for children in
the digital world.
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Office of Digital Learning
Skills/Learning Targets
K
1
2
3
4
5
6-8
9-12
Family Engagement Activities
Identify and use various forms of online
communication and collaboration.
Explore the role of digital technologies in
romantic relationships.
Relationships &
Communication
Understand that tone is important in both
face-to-face and online communications.
Understand and follow rules for writing
clear and respectful messages online.
Recognize hate speech and its impact on
individuals, groups and communities.
Understand the concept of online ethics.

Define cyberbullying and identify different
forms of cyberbullying.
Cyberbullying
&
Digital Drama
DRAFT- March 2016
Office of Digital Learning
Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Cyberbullying (Elementary):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/pdfs/k-5familytip-cyberbullying_032615.pdf
Skills/Learning Targets
K
1
2
3
4
5
6-8
9-12
Family Engagement Activities

Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Cyberbullying (Secondary):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/pdfs/6-12familytip-cyberbullying_052915.pdf

Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Digital Footprint (Elementary):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/pdfs/k-5familytip-privacyanddigitalfootprints.pdf

Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Digital Footprint (High):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/classroom_curri
culum/9-12-familytipprivacyanddigitalfootprints.pdf
Describe how cyberbullying affects victims
and potential consequences for
cyberbullies.
Identify strategies for dealing with
cyberbullying.
Cyberbullying
&
Digital Drama
Learn the difference between being a
passive bystander versus a brave upstander
in cyberbullying situations.
Analyze and reflect on factors that intensify
online cruelty and cyber bullying.
Digital
Footprint
&
Reputation
Explain the concept of digital footprint and
its potential impact on a person’s
reputation and future.
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Office of Digital Learning
Skills/Learning Targets
K
1
2
3
4
5
6-8
9-12
Family Engagement Activities
Recognize that everyone has a digital
footprint, whether helpful or harmful, that
can be searched, copied, passed on and
seen by a large, invisible audience.
Digital
Footprint
&
Reputation
Understand risky forms of self-disclosure
and their possible consequences.
Recognize that any information posted
online can help or hurt their image and
future opportunities including their
chances for college admission or
employment.

Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Digital Life (Secondary):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/classroom_curri
culum/6-12-familytip-digitallife.pdf

Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Self Expression and Identity
(Middle):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/classroom_curri
culum/6-8-familytipselfexpressionandidentity.pdf
Understand both how and why media
messages are constructed, and for what
purposes.
Self-Image
& Identity
Examine how individuals interpret
messages differently, how values and
points of view are included or excluded,
and how media can influence beliefs and
behaviors.
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Office of Digital Learning
Skills/Learning Targets
K
1
2
3
4
5
6-8
9-12
Family Engagement Activities

Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Online Self Expression (High):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/classroom_curri
culum/9-12-familytiponlineselfexpression.pdf

Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Boys/Girls Media Messages
(Elementary):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/classroom_curri
culum/k-5-familytipboysgirlsmediamessages.pdf
Recognize that photos can be altered
digitally, and consider the upsides and
downsides of this practice.
Compare and contrast gender stereotypes.
Evaluate online media messages that
convey gender stereotypes.
Reflect on why gender stereotypes
sometimes can be limiting.
Self-Image
& Identity
Discuss how photo alteration can distort
our perceptions and affect our self-image.
Analyze how advertising uses photo
alteration to help sell products.
Reflect on benefits and risks to presenting
their identities in different ways online.
Evaluate from an ethical point of view the
feelings, motivations, contexts, and
possible outcomes associated with
adopting different roles online.
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Office of Digital Learning
Skills/Learning Targets
K
1
2
3
4
5
6-8
9-12
Family Engagement Activities
Judge whether certain ways people present
themselves online is harmless or harmful.
Identify and define gender stereotypes and
their impact on people’s identities both
online and offline.
Analyze opportunities and limitations for
gender expression in virtual worlds.
Self-Image
& Identity
Think critically about gender stereotypes
associated with drama.
Reflect on the positive and negative impact
digital media have on themselves and on
society.

Identify relevant keywords needed to
create a research plan.
Information
Literacy
Understand the importance of using a
variety of strategies when searching online.
Find, evaluate, and select appropriate
sources to answer questions.
DRAFT- March 2016
Office of Digital Learning
Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Smart Searching (Elementary):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/classroom_curri
culum/k-5-familytip-smartsearching.pdf
Skills/Learning Targets
K
1
2
3
4
5
6-8
9-12
Family Engagement Activities

Understand how the ease of publishing
information online might affect how much
they can trust the content of some sites.
Learn criteria that will help them evaluate
the credibility and authority of websites
critically and competently.
Information
Literacy
Maintain a critical stance by questioning
the accuracy, validity, appropriateness to
needs, importance and social and cultural
contexts of all information.



Define plagiarism and possible
consequences for plagiarizing.
Creative
Credit
&
Copyright
DRAFT- March 2016
Office of Digital Learning
Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Respecting Creative Work
(Elementary):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/classroom_curri
culum/k-5-familytiprespectingcreativework.pdf
Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Evaluating Websites
(Elementary):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/classroom_curri
culum/k-5-familytipevaluatingwebsites.pdf
Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Strategic Searching
(Secondary):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/classroom_curri
culum/6-12-familytipstrategicsearching.pdf
Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Plagiarism and Piracy (High):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/classroom_curri
culum/9-12-familytipplagiarismandpiracy.pdf
Skills/Learning Targets
K
1
2
3
4
5
6-8
9-12
Family Engagement Activities

Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Respecting Creative Work
(Secondary):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/classroom_curri
culum/6-12-familytiprespectingcreativework.pdf

Family Tip Sheet from Common Sense
Media on Respecting Creative Work
(Elementary):
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sit
es/default/files/uploads/classroom_curri
culum/k-5-familytiprespectingcreativework.pdf
Define concepts of intellectual property,
copyright, and exceptions to copyright
(public domain, fair use, copyright-friendly
licensing agreements).
Respect intellectual property rights of
others by using copyrighted material legally
and ethically.
Creative
Credit
&
Copyright
Protect intellectual property rights for
one’s own creative work.
Understand that piracy and plagiarism are
irresponsible and disrespectful behaviors
that have ethical and legal implications.
Consider ethical questions that young
creators consider in exercising their
creative rights and responsibilities.
DRAFT- March 2016
Office of Digital Learning