Copyright in the classroom

Today's PowerPoint presentation really made me think about how important it is to make sure that copyrights are known by everyone in the classroom. If you do not enforce that children cannot plagiarize at an early age, they might grow up thinking that it is okay to do so and maybe one day get in serious trouble for doing so. You not only would be helping them out in the future, but also in the present. To better give them an idea of what it is you could do activities in the classroom. Maybe when you read a printed out poem you could point out the big C at the bottom of the page and tell them that that means that it is copyrighted and that it means that all rights are reserved to the person who wrote it. That means that you can not take an idea or phrase from what you reading. Then to see if they understand the concept have them write a paper on the poem, but not to steal anything from it. I am not exactly sure how I would do this, but like I said the presentation today just really got me to thinking how important it is that children know about it early on in their school years.