Topic

Internet Safety

Teaching students that the Internet offers ways to collaborate with others worldwide while staying safe through using strategies such as distinguishing between inappropriate contact and positive connections.

Topic

Information Literacy

The ability to identify, find, evaluate, and use information effectively. From effective search strategies to evaluation techniques, students learn how to evaluate the quality, credibility, and validity of websites, and give proper credit.

Topic

Privacy & Security

Includes strategies for managing student's online information and keeping it secure from. They learn how to create strong passwords, how to avoid scams and schemes, and how to analyze privacy policies.

Topic

Relationships & Communication

Students focus on building and strengthening positive online communication and communities. The digital citizenship and digital ethics are also emphasized through the reflection of their online interactions.

Student Learning Objectives

I can state the difference between online-only friends and in-person friends.
I can pledge to not share my private information with anyone online without permission of a trusted adult.
I can practice how to respond when an online-only friend asks personal questions

Student Learning Objectives

Key to Keywords

I can write different keywords to give me different results.
I can refine my search by using multiple words, synonyms and alternative words and phrases.
I can explain my findings of my search results.

Picture Perfect

I can recognize that photos can be altered digitally and consider the upsides and downsides of this practice.
I can discuss how photo alteration can distort our perceptions and affect our self-image.
I can analyze how advertising uses photo alteration to help sell products.

Student Learning Objective

I can practice sharing safely online.
I can show the safety and security risks of sharing certain types of information.
I can tell the difference between what personal information is safe to share and which information should remain private.

Student Learning Objective

I can relate to how a person who is cyberbullied might feel.
I can tell the similarities and differences between in-person bullying and cyberbullying.
I can show strategies for dealing with cyberbullying in a responsible way.