Teacher's Guide.

• Position: Activity Sheet

HOW TO USE THIS PROGRAM These flexible lessons are designed for English, social studies, or history classes. You can strengthen your students' digital know-how with the video-based blended learning units from Google's Applied Digital Skills curriculum included with each lesson. Find out more at g.co/applieddigitalskills/scholastic.

LESSON 1

Digital Skills Innovation

OBJECTIVE Students will work in pairs to synthesize research from multiple online sources and create a presentation about an innovative digital skills-based solution to a problem.

TIME REQUIRED 90-120 minutes

MATERIALS

* Student magazine, Digital Skills Digest

* Prep Your Ideas activity sheet

* Computers plus projector or interactive whiteboard

PREP Review the Google Applied Digital Skills "Research and Develop a Topic" unit at g.co/applieddigitalskills/research.

1 Distribute the student magazine to read and discuss as a class. Ask how the digital skills and tools that the profiled teens used can be applied to solve other problems.

2 Tell students they will pair up to research one of the digital skills-based innovations they read about in the magazine (e.g., app creation, book design, writing collaboration) or another digital innovation of their choice. Distribute activity sheet. Discuss research choices with students.

3 Review how to determine credible sources online, using the "Is That Source for Real?" box in the magazine as a starting point. Direct students to follow the Applied Digital Skills "Research and Develop a Topic" unit as a guide to the research process, paying particular attention to the section on Credibility Clues (Lesson 1, Video 2).

4 After researching, have students create a presentation in Google Slides (slides.google.com). They should describe the problem(s) their innovation solves, how the solution works, and its future uses or potential issues.

5 Have each group present to the class. Have students note one thing that they learned to share as feedback.

EXTENSION

For a deeper examination into how technology is used in a wide variety of careers, students can complete the "Technology at Work" unit at g.co/applieddigitalskills/techatwork.

LESSON 2

Mapping a Historical or Literary Figure

OBJECTIVE Students will create a map to explain the relationship between a historical or literary problem solver and their cultural, political, economic, and physical environment.

TIME REQUIRED 90-120 minutes

MATERIALS

* Map Out a Plan! activity sheet

* Computers

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