Internet Safety Lesson Plan

Going Places Safely

Lesson on Internet Safety

My Online Neighborhood

Essential Question

How do I go places safely on the computer?

Assessment

You can use these questions to assess your students’ understanding of the lesson objectives.

ASK: What can the Internet be used for?

ASK: What rules do we have for visiting a new place in real life?

ASK: What rules do we have for visiting places online?

Learning Overview and Objectives

Vocabulary

Students will be able to ...

• discover that the Internet can be used to visit far-away places and learn new things.
• compare how staying safe online is similar to staying safe in the real world.
• explain rules for traveling safely on the Internet.

Internet: an electronic system that connects billions of people using computers, phones, or other devices, and allows them to communicate with one another

online: connected to the Internet

website: a place you can visit on the Internet

INVITE students to talk about places they have visited on a class field trip.

HAVE students take an imaginary field trip to their chosen place and describe what they think they might see and do once they arrive.

ASK:

What do you need to do to stay safe when you visit new places?

Guide students to acknowledge the following safety rules:

Always go places with an adult.

Don’t wander off on your own.

Talk only with people you know.

INVITE children to share some of the rules they follow when they travel in person.

ARRANGE students into groups.

DISTRIBUTE My Favorite Place Student Handout.

ENCOURAGE students to think of one of the things they liked best on the website they visited. Have them draw a picture of that thing. Then help students write down the name of their favorite thing.

INVITE students to share.

READ ALOUD the safety rules on the student handout. Review how students followed the rules when they went online, and stress how students should use these rules whenever they travel online.

Virtual Field Trip

DEFINE Internet and online.

EXPLAIN to students that another way to visit interesting places all over the world is by going on the Internet.

SHOW students the video, “My Online Neighborhood.”

ASK:

What did Jeremiah like about the Internet? What kinds of things can he do on the Internet?

ASK:

What three rules does Jeremiah follow when he goes places online?

POINT OUT to students that just as they follow safety rules for travel in the real world, when they go online they should follow the three safety rules you just discussed.

TELL students that the computer makes it possible to visit distant places without ever leaving the classroom.

DEFINE website.

EXPLAIN they will be visiting a website that belong to real places. This place is far from where they live, but they can visit them online.

CHOOSE the The San Diego Zoo website to explore as a class. Project the site.

INVITE students to role-play how they might ask a teacher to visit this site. Remind students that the first safety rule is to always ask your parent or teacher first.

EXPLORE the website. Point out: only talk to people you know, and stick to places that are just right for you.

ENCOURAGE students to discuss what they saw and learned on their Internet field trip.

http://kids.sandiegozoo.org/