Teaching Tools and Lesson Plans

Articles

• Dodge, Laura and Jennifer Sams. "Innovative copyright: Unique resources for copyright education." College & Research Libraries News 72(10): 2001.
• Extensive list of resources on teaching copyright. Most appropriate for secondary students and faculty.

 

Handouts

• Fair Use Chart & Guide - by Lewis Library at LaGrange University
• Fair Use Checklist - by Columbia University Libraries
  

 

Interactives

• Copyright Cyberbee 
• Thinking Through Fair Use - great tool from the University of MN that helps analyze fair use
• Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright - website designed for kids from the Library of Congress
• A Visit to Copyright Bay
• Get CC Savvy - Help HS & college students understand Creative Commons. Each of the 4 module contains a short video about the topic followed by a suggested activity to complete to help students understand Creative Commons in practice.

 

Lessons

• Teaching Copyright (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• Copyright Alliance's Library of Classroom Curricula
• Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate Over Downloading Music
• Copyright Law: From Digital Reprints to Downloads
• Exploring Plagiarism, Copyright, and Paraphrasing
• Technology and Copyright Law: A "Futurespective"
• Copyright & Plagiarism WebQuest
• Library of Congress Self-Paced Modules on Primary Sources, including Copyright & Primary Sources
• Join the © Team (K-12 lessons from the Copyright Alliance Education Foundation & Entertainment Software Association)

 

Videos

• Visit the Videos About Copyright & the Creative Commons page to see a collection of videos you could use.