For parents, this time of year can feel like walking through a minefield, with ads, decorations and music all aimed at getting kids excited about the holidays. Our parent tip sheet “Surviving the Gimme Season” offers parents tip on how to control holiday consumerism.

Getting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube: A Lesson on Online Information (Grades 6-8) In this lesson, students watch a short video that compares getting rid of personal information online to getting toothpaste back into a tube. Through the video and a series of short scenarios, students learn the five principles of information online: that information online is permanent, can be copied, can be seen by unintended audiences, can be seen by larger audiences than intended, and that it becomes searchable.