Saturday, September 5, 2009

Internet Safety

NAME: Leiloni Cloutier SUBJECT: Technology
GRADE LEVEL: 4 LENGTH: 30-40 Minutes
NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 25

PREINSTRUCTIONAL

Using and Transferring

Content Standard 1: All students will use and transfer technological knowledge and skills for life roles (family member, citizen, worker, consumer, lifelong learner).

Benchmark—Middle School (Citizen) # 4
Demonstrate technological resources and systems that might be used to address social, civic, and economic issues.

Applying Appropriate Technologies

Content Standard 3: All students will apply appropriate technologies to critical thinking, creative expression, and decision making skills.

Benchmark—Middle School (Creative Expression) #2
Use technologies as tools for creative expression and communication of ideas (voice, data, video, graphics, etc).

Objectives

1. As a result of this lesson, students will be able to recognize problems associated with cyber bullying.
2. As a result of this lesson, students will be able to make safe user names.
3. As a result of this lesson, students will be able to use their knowledge of power point for a presentation.

Materials/Special Arrangements/Individual Modifications
Computer, internet access, paper, pencil, and markers

During Instruction

Introductory Activity: Students will be given three minutes to come up with a user name for an internet chat room.

Developmental Activity:
1. The teacher will give an overview on what cyber bullying is, how to prevent it from happening, and what students can do if it is happening to them. The teacher will also go over the dangers of sexual predators on the internet.
2. Students will be provided a short overview from the teacher of how to choose good usernames.
3. The teacher will write on the board some examples of bad user names and ask the students to explain how the examples could be made better.
4. The students will share their usernames with the class. As a class the students and teacher will discuss how to make their usernames safer.
5. The students will work collaboratively in groups (mixture of females and males) to present of one of the following topics: how to choose a safe username, cyber bullying, or dangers of sexual predators on the internet.
6. The groups will use the internet to find information on the topic of their choice.
7. Each group will make a power point presentation of the information they have collected which should include at least six slides and cite at least two references they used.
8. Each group will make and use a visual aid to present their topic along with their power point presentation.
Concluding the Lesson:
Each group will give a presentation on the information they have collected using power point and visual aid(s).
Follow-up Activity or Assignment
Students will inform others about cyber bullying, sexual predators or choosing safer usernames by putting on a presentation for parents and classmates.

POST INSTRUCTIONAL

Evaluation of Student Learning: Evaluation of student learning will be based on the following:
1. The student’s individual success in finding useful and relevant information using the internet.
2. The success of the group in being able to use power point successfully.
3. The student’s overall participation in their presentation.
4. The student’s ability to work collaboratively with others.

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