Required Lesson
Grades: K-2
Unit 1
Lesson 5: Sending Email
Estimated Time: 45 Minutes
How do you connect with others through email?
Students explore how they can use email to communicate with real people within their schools, families, and communities. After discussing the different ways they can send messages to other people, students observe an email exchange between teachers on paper. Students then participate in an imaginative role-play that helps them envision how messages are transmitted between people over the Internet.
Objectives:
Students explore how they can use email to communicate with real people within their schools, families, and communities. After discussing the different ways they can send messages to other people, students observe an email exchange between teachers on paper. Students then participate in an imaginative role-play that helps them envision how messages are transmitted between people over the Internet.
Objectives:
- understand that the Internet provides a means of communicating with real people.
- describe how email messages are sent and received.
- demonstrate an appreciation of how real people send messages to one another on the Internet through a role-playing activity.
Key Vocabulary:
Message: something you want to tell or ask another person
Email: a kind of message you write and send on a computer
Internet: a network that links everyone’s computers together
Message: something you want to tell or ask another person
Email: a kind of message you write and send on a computer
Internet: a network that links everyone’s computers together
Materials and Preparation:
- Prepare by reading the Sending Email Full Lesson Plan
- Make a copy of the Sending Email handout for each student (found in the Sending Email Full Lesson Plan Packet).
- Paper, blank labels or nametags, and markers or crayons
- Access to school email network
- Watch the "Adapting to Elementary ESL Students" video
Sending Email Full Lesson Plan | |
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Required Lesson
Grades: K-2
Unit 2
Lesson 1: Staying Safe Online
Estimated Time: 45 Minutes
How do you stay safe when you visit a website?
Students understand that they should stay safe online by choosing websites that are good for them to visit, and avoiding sites that are not appropriate for them. First, students learn about the similarities of staying safe in the real world and when visiting websites. Next, they learn about the website traffic light and complete an activity where they match statements about websites to the correct safety level of the site. Then they play an interactive game and consider how to determine which websites are just right for them.
Objectives:
Students understand that they should stay safe online by choosing websites that are good for them to visit, and avoiding sites that are not appropriate for them. First, students learn about the similarities of staying safe in the real world and when visiting websites. Next, they learn about the website traffic light and complete an activity where they match statements about websites to the correct safety level of the site. Then they play an interactive game and consider how to determine which websites are just right for them.
Objectives:
- understand that being safe when they visit websites is similar to staying safe in real life.
- learn to recognize websites that are good for them to visit.
- recognize if they should ask an adult they trust before they visit a particular website.
Key Vocabulary
Safe: free from danger or harm
Caution: to be careful
Right: something that’s appropriate and fitting
Safe: free from danger or harm
Caution: to be careful
Right: something that’s appropriate and fitting
Materials and Preparations:
- Prepare by reading the Staying Safe Online Full Lesson Plan (below)
- Make a copy of Staying Safe Online handout for each student (found in the Staying Safe Online Full Lesson Plan packet)
- Chalkboard or white board
- A long piece of string or tape
- Red, yellow, and green markers or crayons
Teacher Resources:
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Supplemental Lesson
Grades: K-2
Unit 2
Lesson 2: Follow the Digital Trail
Estimated Time: 45 Minutes
What information is OK to have in your digital footprint?
Students learn that the information they put online leaves a digital footprint or “trail.” This trail can be big or small, helpful or hurtful, depending on how they manage it. Students follow the digital information trails of two fictional animals. They make observations about the size and content of each trail, and connect these observations by thinking critically about what kinds of information they want to leave behind.
Objectives:
Students learn that the information they put online leaves a digital footprint or “trail.” This trail can be big or small, helpful or hurtful, depending on how they manage it. Students follow the digital information trails of two fictional animals. They make observations about the size and content of each trail, and connect these observations by thinking critically about what kinds of information they want to leave behind.
Objectives:
- learn that the information they put online leaves a digital footprint or “trail.”
- explore what information is appropriate to be put online.
- judge the nature of different types of digital footprints by following the information trails of two fictional animals.
Key Vocabulary
Trail: a path or track
Digital footprint: the information about you on the Internet
Permanent: there forever
Trail: a path or track
Digital footprint: the information about you on the Internet
Permanent: there forever
Materials and Preparations:
- Prepare by reading the Follow the Digital Trail Full Lesson Plan (below)
- Make a copy of the Follow the Digital Trail handout for each student (found in the Follow the Digital Trail lesson packet (below)
- Cut apart the Digital Trail Squares (found at the end of the lesson plan), keeping the elephant and mouse squares separate. Be prepared to lay out each animal’s “tracks” in different locations in the classroom after the lesson introduction.
Teacher Resources:
Follow the Digital Trail Full Lesson Plan | |
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Supplemental Lesson
Grades: K-2
Unit 2
Lesson 3: Screen Out the Mean
Estimated Time: 45 Minutes
What can you do when someone is mean to you online?
Students learn that children sometimes can act like bullies when they are online. They explore what cyberbullying means and what they can do when they encounter it. Students first read a scenario about mean online behavior. They then discuss what cyberbullying is, how it can make people feel, and how to respond. Then they use their knowledge to create a simple tip sheet on cyberbullying. Students recognize that it is essential to tell a trusted adult if something online makes them feel angry, sad, or scared.
Objectives:
Students learn that children sometimes can act like bullies when they are online. They explore what cyberbullying means and what they can do when they encounter it. Students first read a scenario about mean online behavior. They then discuss what cyberbullying is, how it can make people feel, and how to respond. Then they use their knowledge to create a simple tip sheet on cyberbullying. Students recognize that it is essential to tell a trusted adult if something online makes them feel angry, sad, or scared.
Objectives:
- analyze online behaviors that could be considered cyberbullying.
- explain how to deal with a cyberbullying situation.
- recognize the importance of engaging a trusted adult when they experience cyberbullying
Key Vocabulary:
Online: connected to people on the Internet
Cyberbullying: doing something on the Internet, usually again and again, to make another person feel angry, sad, or scared
Online: connected to people on the Internet
Cyberbullying: doing something on the Internet, usually again and again, to make another person feel angry, sad, or scared
Materials and Preparations:
- Prepare by reading the Screen Out the Mean Full Lesson (below)
- Make a copy of the Screen Out the Mean handout for each student.(found in the Screen Out the Mean Full Lesson packet)
- Preview the scenario in Teach 2 and be prepared to present it to the class
Teacher Resources:
Screen Out the Mean Full Lesson Plan | |
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Supplemental Lesson
Grades: K-2
Unit 2
Lesson 4: Using Keywords
Estimated Time: 45 Minutes
Which keywords will give you the best search results?
Students understand that keyword searching is an effective way to locate information on the Internet. They learn how to select keywords to produce the best search results. First, students learn to identify their research goals and choose the best keywords to achieve those goals. Then they apply their knowledge by using their keywords in a search. Students examine their search results and observe how a good choice of keywords can get them the information they want.
Objectives:
Students understand that keyword searching is an effective way to locate information on the Internet. They learn how to select keywords to produce the best search results. First, students learn to identify their research goals and choose the best keywords to achieve those goals. Then they apply their knowledge by using their keywords in a search. Students examine their search results and observe how a good choice of keywords can get them the information they want.
Objectives:
- understand the function of keywords and keyword searches.
- learn a step-by-step procedure for selecting suitable keywords.
- apply their chosen keywords to find the information they are looking for on the Internet.
Key Vocabulary:
Search: to look for information on the Internet
Keywords: the words you use to search for information about a topic
Search: to look for information on the Internet
Keywords: the words you use to search for information about a topic
Materials and Preparations:
- Prepare by reading the Using Keywords Full Lesson Plan (below)
- Make a copy of Using Keywords handout for each student (found in Using Keywords Full Lesson Plan packet)
Teacher Resources:
Using Keywords Full Lesson Plan | |
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Supplemental Lesson
Grades: K-2
Unit 2
Lesson 5: Sites I Like
Estimated Time: 45 Minutes
Students explore and evaluate an informational website for children. Students discover that people’s opinions about the quality and usefulness of a site will vary. As a class, students view a website and identify features that they like and those they do not like. Using the Rate My Site Student Handout, they then explore and rate another site on their own. Students compare responses and discuss their similarities and differences.
Objectives:
Objectives:
- identify and explore different features of an informational website.
- understand that not everyone will rate a website the same way.
- evaluate whether they like or dislike features of a site.
Key Vocabulary:
Subject: the topic that something (a website) is about
Link (noun): something you can click on to go to another part of the site
Rate: to judge how good or valuable something is
Subject: the topic that something (a website) is about
Link (noun): something you can click on to go to another part of the site
Rate: to judge how good or valuable something is
Materials and Preparations:
- Prepare by reading the Sites I like Full Lesson Plan (below)
- Make a copy of the Sites I Like handout for each student (found in the Sites I Like Full Lesson Plan packet)
- Preview the websites listed in Teach 1 and be prepared to show one of them to the class
Teacher Resources:
Sites I Like Full Lesson Plan | |
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