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Lucky & Flo: Crime-Fighting Canines
from the Motion Picture Association of America and Weekly Reader Custom Publishing

This curriculum features Lucky and Flo - the world's first-ever DVD sniffing dogs - to get the message about intellectual property to children in a fun way. The curriculum educates children about copyright theft and various forms of piracy, how to identify counterfeit DVDs, the consequences of film piracy, and why protecting copyrights is important to them.

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Grades
Late Elementary: Grades 3-5; Middle School: Grades 6-8

Program Objectives

  • To introduce students to the concept of intellectual property.
  • To show students how the DVD-sniffing dogs, Lucky and Flo, help uncover film piracy.
  • To explain the harm of film piracy and the penalties for illegally copying DVDs and illegally downloading movies from the Internet.

Components
Teacher's guide, reproducible activity sheets, informational brochure, wall poster, take-home parent page

Standards Alignment

Social Studies

  • Report information froma spatial perspective
  • Locate places using maps or globes
  • Physical and human characteristics of places
  • Civic ideals and practices
  • Relationships among technology,human values, and behavior

Language Arts

  • Vocabulary development
  • Cause and effect
  • Drawing conclusions
  • Creative writing

Fine Arts

  • Drawing
  • Understand and apply media, techniques, and processes

Technology & Computers

  • Cyber citizenship
  • Internet safety
  • Communication and collaboration
  • Critical thinking
  • Problem-solving
  • Decision-making

Research Skills

  • Internet research
  • Gather and synthesize information
  • Communicate knowledge
  • Research and information fluency

Parent Info


  

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