Brief Description

Students need to practice safe Internet usage.  This lesson takes the students through sites that will help them comprehend this important issue.

Standards and Frameworks

Technology Standards

2T-E1.  Discuss basic issues related to responsible use of technology and information and describe personal consequences of inappropriate use.

R-E2. Use reading strategies such as making inferences and predictions, summarizing, paraphrasing, differentiating fact from opinion, drawing conclusions, and determining the author’s purpose and perspective to comprehend written selections

Academic

• Students will be able to summarize and differentiate from fact or opinion on various web sites.

• Students will be able to recognize responsible use of technology and discuss the effects of inappropriate use.

• Internet Skills
• Students recognize different probability techniques and are able to apply the knowledge to an assessment.

• A computer for every student (or every two)

Work in groups with varying ability levels.

Procedures

1. Before taking the students to the lab read the following story to the students.  The story talks about a girl who gives out too much information to a boy and pays the consequences.  This is a good introduction because the students take Internet safety seriously after they hear this story.(You will be amazed as well)

http://www.amphi.com/~pgreenle/safety/sharing.pdf
2. Take the students to the computer lab to work through a site that allows students to read about the dos and don’ts of the Internet.  The site is http://www.usdoj.gov/kidspage/do-dont/do-dont.htm
3. On this page the students read through what to do and what not to do on the Internet.
4. Talk to the students about the Don’ts of using the Internet.
5. At this point the students create a checklist that they can use to make sure to follow the safety rules on the Internet.
6. Using the site http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/webaware/2joes/johome.htm Students travel with a guy named Joe Cool and check out different sites (that are made up) to see if they are safe internet users.  When you get to the main menu the sites that focus on Internet safety are:  Fast talk and Joes home page.  The other links are good, but focus on different issues.  Check out the teacher resource page for ideas.

1. Take the Jo Cool Quiz.
2. Collect the checklists to redistribute when the Internet is used in the classroom.
3. Discussion on Internet safety and talking about what the students will do differently in the future on the Internet.