Internet+Safety+Instruction



- The focus of the activity was on the "Great Eight" internet safety rules:
 * Summary **
 * -The Internet Safety Instruction Project required educators to design an activity to introduce students to basic internet safety. After developing the activity the educator was to design a lesson plan to carry out the activity. **
 * Great Eight:**:
 * 1) Be nice. (only say nice things on the internet/ rules for being polite)
 * 2) Be safe (Information you can share: first name, age, city, hobbies)
 * 3) Meeting People on the Internet (why you shouldn't meet someone from the internet in person)
 * 4) Give credit when borrowing (citations/references)
 * 5) D ownloading (know what the file is and who sent it, have virus proteciton installed on computer)
 * 6) Privacy Policies (Web sites should have a good reason for asking you for your information and tell you what they will do with it)
 * 7) Passwords: don't give out your password- ever
 * 8) Fact or Opinion (how to tell the difference)

__ Lesson Plan summary: __
-** Introductory Lesson: **
 * Day 1: Students will be introduced to the Great Eight – the eight rules of internet safety using a PowerPoint presentation. Students will then watch a 5 minute video clip called, “Professor Garfield’s Fact or Opinion” to help students better understand reliable vs. unreliable sources. As a class the students will play two short games: “Nermal’s Report-Fact or Fiction” and “Feed the Fact-bot”. Teacher will then review the Great Eight with her students. **
 * Day 2: Students will work in groups to present one of Great Eight guidelines to the class in poster form which will be presented to the class. After the presentations the teacher will once again review the Great Eight. Finally, the students will take the Internet Safety Quiz. **
 * -Long-term: Students must have an Internet Safety Certificate on file in order to be able to use the school computers. This activity is meant to provide students with all the information they need in order to earn their certificate. **

Garfield’s Fact or Opinion Fact or opinion. (2009). Retrieved from http://www.infinitelearninglab.org/
 * Reference **

Great Eight: Adopted from PBS PBS. (1995). Get your official web license. Retrieved from http://pbskids.org/license/result.html?a1=n&a2=n&a3=n&a4=n&a5=n&a6=n&a7=n&a8=n&a9=n&a0=n&name=&x=153&y=25

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