Teaching Ideas

Role Play for k-6

One good way to get the point across about copyright at a very young age is to do a role play. You may want to modify this to suit your students, but the role play could go something like this:

• have your students do some kind of creative activity such as drawing a picture or writing a story
• find one that you like and tell the student how good it is and how much you like it
• go back to your desk and duplicate the drawing or story almost exactly, changing only one or two elements
• have a group "show and tell" about the artwork or the story, making sure the student shows his/her work before you do
• the class should notice that your work is almost identical
• generate discussion

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