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Using Others' Work Online

Sixth graders learn that work posted online still belongs to the person who made it, so they weigh how to use it fairly, and sort real choices into OK and not OK.

Grade 6Using Others' Work Online50 minutes1 class periodCSTA / ISTEExplicit teaching4 StandardsCSTA
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Explain copyright simply.
  • ✓Know when to get permission.
  • ✓Always give credit.
  • ✓Sort each choice.
Essential Question

You find the perfect image online. It is easy to copy, but was it yours to use? Who owns work posted online, and how do you use it fairly?

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Interactive Task
Sort the Choices · Interactive

Sort the Choices

Project this and sort each choice into OK or not OK when using others' work online — tap a choice, then tap where it belongs.

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The Lesson · Use → Modify → Create (a coding progression with Unplugged practice)

50 minutes, five moves

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1

Hook — Who Made It?

5 min

You find the perfect image online for a project. It was easy to copy, but was it yours to use? Who still owns work posted on the internet?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Show an online image.
  • Ask if it is free to take.
  • Set the goal.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Think.
  • Share.
  • Get ready.
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Use — Sort the Choices

12 min

Students sort choices into OK and not OK.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to Sort the Choices.
  • Drop each choice.
  • Explain each one.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Sort.
  • Say.
  • Explain.
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Modify — Make It OK

13 min

Students fix a not-OK choice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Pick a not-OK choice.
  • Say how to make it OK.
  • Name what you would credit.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Pick.
  • Say.
  • Name.
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Create — A Credit Line

15 min

Students write proper credit.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Find a free-to-use image.
  • Write a credit line for it.
  • Note the license it uses.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Find.
  • Write.
  • Note.
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Reflect — Using Work Fairly

5 min

Students reflect on using others' work.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Who owns work posted online?
  • What should you do before using someone's image?
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Say it.
  • Say it.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards and the ISTE Standards for Students.

CSTA
2-IC-21

Discuss issues of ethics and law related to using others' creative work.

CSTA
2-AP-19

Give attribution when using the ideas and creations of others.

CSTA
1B-IC-18

Discuss computing technologies that respect intellectual property and personal ownership.

ISTE
1.2.c

Digital Citizen: respect the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Choice scenario cards.
  • Sentence frame: “___ is OK / not OK because ___ .”
  • Sort two choices at a time.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Start with clear OK and not-OK cases.
  • Sort one choice together.
  • Sort all OK choices first.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Add gray-area cases and discuss fair use.
  • Write attributions for three real sources.
  • Explore Creative Commons licenses.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Projector / board
  • 🖼️Scenario cards
  • 💻Sort the Choices
  • ©️Example credit lines
  • ✏️Pencils
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

copyrightthe right of a creator to control how their work is usedintellectual propertycreative work, like art, writing, or music, that someone ownspermissionapproval from the owner to use their workcreditnaming the creator when you use their workattributiongiving credit to the source of a work or idealicenserules that say how a work may be usedpublic domainwork free for anyone to use, with no copyrightplagiarismusing someone's work as your own without credit
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
Who owns work that is posted online?
The person who created it; posting it online does not make it free to take.
QUESTION 2
What should you do before using someone's image in a project?
Check its license or get permission, and give the creator credit.
QUESTION 3
What is plagiarism?
Using someone else's work or words as your own without giving credit.

Create: a credit line.

Have students find a free-to-use image, write a proper credit line for it, and note its license, so giving credit becomes routine. A printable using-others-work worksheet is in the Computer Science library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

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Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: attribution, copyright, credit, intellectual property, license, permission, plagiarism, public domain
  1. naming the creator when you use their work
  2. giving credit to the source of a work or idea
  3. work free for anyone to use, with no copyright
  4. using someone's work as your own without credit
  5. approval from the owner to use their work
  6. rules that say how a work may be used
  7. the right of a creator to control how their work is used
  8. creative work, like art, writing, or music, that someone owns

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. Who owns work that is posted online?
  2. What should you do before using someone's image in a project?
  3. What is plagiarism?
Answer key — Part A: 1) credit · 2) attribution · 3) public domain · 4) plagiarism · 5) permission · 6) license · 7) copyright · 8) intellectual property
Part B: 1) The person who created it; posting it online does not make it free to take. 2) Check its license or get permission, and give the creator credit. 3) Using someone else's work or words as your own without giving credit.