Internet Safety in K-6

Digital Safety

Digital Citizenship Week takes place in October. Although every teacher in every grade in every subject should be weaving in conversations about responsible online practices this is nevertheless a good time to teach some specific lessons on the topic.  Following are the resources I'm exposing K-6 learners to when they visit the computer lab this month.

Kindergarten-2nd Grade

Common Sense Media has a fantastic scope and sequence of lessons that have already been created to use with students. To make the lessons a bit more engaging for our little learners I have created presentations around two of the concepts featured in the scope and sequence, embedded and linked below.  I've also created review Kahoots for 1st and 2nd grade that are free to duplicate.

Direct Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_lUc3CzlYXpozgLyoRVX-Kk0Gse5-wOS9CaxQLO5ElE/edit?usp=sharing



Direct Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12GC8bjh3Trdau7xkI66orSpbLWatK17N3xtd8ED3ziM/edit?usp=sharing




3rd and 4th Grade

My friend Kirsten Innes (@Kirs10i) recommended MediaSmarts' "Privacy Pirates" game for this age group.  The graphics are kid friendly and the site will read the program to students which comes in handy at this age. There is a short "introduction" with 5 safety questions (and hints). If students get 2 or more questions wrong it will not advance them to the game- they must take the quiz again.  Once they get 4/5 or higher they go to the Internet Safety game which will ask them 9 safety questions after reading a short introduction to each. For me, if students got any score under 9/9 they needed to go back and retake the quiz until they received a perfect score.

5th and 6th Grade

For this age group I'm using Google's "Be Internet Awesome" curriculum in which the students navigate self-paced through 5 internet safety islands.  The students love the graphics in the game and can usually make it through one island in 30 minutes.  Several have asked to continue to play at home!

I've made a Google Form Quiz to go along with this program: https://goo.gl/forms/yuy9sWnrR3mhinNW2


Typing Programs

While Google's program takes up the entire 30 minutes of student lab time the other programs may not. When students finish early they get some practice learning the keyboard.  For Kindergarten and 1st grade students practice playing Keyboard Climber and Keyboard Climber 2 (the difference between 1 & 2 is the second version incorporates capital letters). For 2nd graders many like to use LetterBubbles.

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