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Welcome to Youville!
Youville is a free, downloadable, educational program to help children ages 8-12 develop skills to be safer online.
Want to teach 8-12 year-olds about digital citizenship, privacy and online safety, digital citizenship, understanding advertising, and spotting scams? Youville has free tools for you:
- Getting Started
- Privacy and Online Safety
- Digital Citizenship
- Understanding Advertising
- Spotting and Avoiding Scams
- Review
Watch this video to learn more:
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The Quest
Kids complete a series of activities to help the Youbies defeat The Claud, a powerful energy creating chaos in Youville — and develop real-life skills. They'll learn how to protect their personal information, ask questions about unexpected messages, promote positivity online, understand advertising techniques, and spot and avoid scams.
As they progress through each challenge, kids collect pieces of the JumboFan to blow The Claud away from Youville for good.
Youville lessons:
- Meet educational standards (CCSS, ISTE, AASL, NHES).
- Use games to make solving challenges fun.
- Include step-by-step lesson plans, slides to guide discussions, downloadable activity sheets, and an answer key so you can answer questions along the way.
- Let you pick and choose topics. Each lesson stands alone. Short on time? Try a 5-minute warmup activity, or a 10-minute mini lesson. Complete an entire lesson in about 40 minutes.
Your Roadmap
- Start with the curriculum standards matrix to see how Youville fits into the learning objectives for your students.
- Download and print out the JumboFan template and Youville poster and display them in your classroom.
- Download or print lesson materials to get started.
- Pick and choose individual lessons or use the whole unit.
Getting Started
Jumbo Fan Sheet
Standards
Privacy and Online Safety
What Information Is Personal
(8-10 years old)
How To Protect Your Personal Information
(11-12 years old)
Digital Citizenship
What Is Digital Citizenship and How To Practice It
(8-10 years old)
What To Do When Someone Uses Bullying Language Online
(8-10 years old)
How To Become an Upstander
(11-12 years old)
Understanding Advertising
What is Advertising Literacy?
(8-10 years old)
Understanding Advertising Techniques
(11-12 years old)
Spotting and Avoiding Scams
How To Avoid Phishing Scams
(8-10 years old)
Find the Fakes
(8-10 years old)
When Free Is Not Free
(11-12 years old)
Review
Share With Care
(11-12 years old)
Bringing It All Together
(11-12 years old)
Free Promotional Materials
Download and print free promotional bookmarks, postcards, and posters for your classroom. Order promotional bookmarks and share them with colleagues, administrators, youth program leaders, and other educators in your community. Encourage them to start their kids on a Youville adventure today!
