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Please have students complete the following assignment DUE 4/2

GRADE 4: A Creator's Rights and Responsibilities

Students remix media content to create a new creative piece. Along the way, they give proper credit to the artists whose images and sound clips they use. 

Students will:

  • Learn about copyright, credit, and plagiarism and apply their knowledge to their own creative work.
  • Reflect on the ethical importance of giving credit to others for their work.
  • Determine how to receive credit for their digital creations.

Key Vocabulary 

  • Copyright: A law that says that only creators have the right to say what others can do with their work 
  • Plagiarize: Using some or all of somebody’s work or idea and saying that you created it 
  • Credit: To show in writing that someone has created a work

 

YOU NEED TO ACCESS GAME ON A LAPTOP/DESKTOP (DOES NOT WORK ON IPAD AND MOBILE DEVICES)

  1. Students play the Mix-n-Mash game in Digital Passport™ by Common Sense Education.
  2. Have students create a username.
    1. Digital Passport will save where your students left off in a game if they have completed a round, but it does not save their spots mid-round. Please note that to log back in to complete the game, students will have to use the same device and login credentials.
  3. PlayGame (10 minutes): Digital Passport’s interactive games are self-guided activities for students to complete individually. Each game includes educational tips, three rounds of gameplay, and a cartoon “consequence simulator” that shows students what might result from the choices they make in the game.
    1. DO NOT FORGET TO SAVE YOUR REMIX WORK.

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Assignment

Please have students complete the following assignment DUE 3/26

GRADE 4: A Creator's Rights and Responsibilities

What rights and responsibilities do you have as a creator?

It's common for kids to use images they find online, for school projects or just for fun. But kids don't often understand which images are OK to use and which ones aren't. Help your students learn about the rights and responsibilities they have when it comes to the images they create and use.

 

Objectives

Students will be able to:

  • Define "copyright" and explain how it applies to creative work.
  • Describe their rights and responsibilities as creators.
  • Apply copyright principles to real-life scenarios.