Elementary Library

Lead students through discussion about the image. You may need to explain that lightbulbs are symbols of ideas or tell students the title of the picture is The Idea Thief to help guide their thinking. OBJECTIVE

Display “I can explain ownership of creative works”.

Say: This is our learning objective today (read objective). What does ownership mean? How is a picture of stealing ideas related to creative ownership? Today, we will be learning about how ideas are owned by the people who make them and that can look like many different types of things, especially media. Part of being a good citizen, and digital citizen is by respecting other people’s ownership of their ideas by not copying or stealing. It is also important to protect your own creative works!

Display “I can put my name and the date on my work.” Read aloud.

Say: When we are careful to put our name and the date on our own work we protect it from being copied and stolen. We will practice this later in the lesson today. DIRECT INSTRUCTION & PRACTICE Step 1: Read Aloud & Discuss Display selected books and remind students of polite listening behavior and story time procedures. Say: Our first book will help us understand the idea of ownership. What do you think ownership means? So we think ownership means (summarize student answers). Let’s read this story and see if we need to change or expand our definition. Say: What do you think about ownership now? How is owning a hat the same or different as owning an idea? People have ownership of their ideas and creative works. Music & Movement Break - If using copyrighted music, note to students who is the owner of the creative work. Step 2: Read Aloud & Discuss Say: Let’s take a closer look at a creator who owned original creative works in our next story. Step 3: Creative Work & Copyright Practice Say: Authors and illustrators put their names on their books to show ownership of their creative works. Let’s look at the books we read – see the author wrote the words and owns them. The illustrator made the pictures and owns them. Owning a creative work is called copyright. You can show your ownership, or copyright, of your own creative works by putting your name and the date on your own creative work. That’s our second objective today! I can put my name and the date on my work. I’m going to pass out a paper for you to create your own creative work on. I want you to write or draw about the best thing that happened to you this week. When you have finished, you need to write your name and the date on the paper so we all know that creative Read selected book using discussion guide and best practices. Read a book about ownership aloud using discussion guide best practices.

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