Required Lesson
Grades: K-2
Unit 1
Lesson 1: Going Places Safely
Estimated Time: 45 Minutes
Students talk about places they have visited on a class field trip. If students have limited experience with field trips, provide some examples of the types of places they could visit as a class, such as museums, science centers, or zoos and then have students choose a place they would like to go on a class field trip. Next, have students share some of the rules they follow when they travel in person.
Objectives:
Objectives:
- discover that computers can be used to visit far-away places and learn new things
- understand that staying safe online is similar to staying safe in the real world
- learn rules for traveling safely on the Internet
Key Vocabulary:
Online: Connected to the Internet on a computer
Distant: Far away, as in another part of the country or the world
Website: A place you can visit on the computer
Online: Connected to the Internet on a computer
Distant: Far away, as in another part of the country or the world
Website: A place you can visit on the computer
Materials and Preparation:
Prepare by reading the Going Places Safely: Full Lesson Plan (below)
Make a copy of the Going Places Safely Handout for each student (listed under Teacher Resources).
Provide Crayons or markers
Preview the video My Online Neighborhood and prepare to show it to students.
Preview the website The San Diego Zoo and be prepared to guide students through it.
Prepare by reading the Going Places Safely: Full Lesson Plan (below)
Make a copy of the Going Places Safely Handout for each student (listed under Teacher Resources).
Provide Crayons or markers
Preview the video My Online Neighborhood and prepare to show it to students.
Preview the website The San Diego Zoo and be prepared to guide students through it.
Teacher Resources:
Going Places Safely: My Favorite Place | |
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Going Places Safely: Full Lesson Plan | |
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UNIT 1 Student Packet with Worksheets | |
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Supplemental Lesson
Grades: K-2
Unit 1
Lesson 2: A-B-C Searching
Estimated Time: 45 Minutes
After observing a search as a class, students are assigned letters of the alphabet and perform their own searches on a children’s directory site. Using the Our Picture Dictionary Student Handout, students select and print out pictures to create their own picture dictionary for the classroom.
Objectives:
Objectives:
- learn how to search online by using the alphabet
- understand how to search for a specified letter of the alphabet on a children’s directory site
- apply the results of their alphabet search to create a picture dictionary
Key Vocabulary:
Dictionary: a book or website that has words arranged according to the alphabet and explains what each word means
Search (verb): to look for something (on the Internet)
Dictionary: a book or website that has words arranged according to the alphabet and explains what each word means
Search (verb): to look for something (on the Internet)
Materials and Preparation:
Make a copy of the A-B-C Handout for each student (ABC Searching Packet)
Make a copy of the A-B-C Handout for each student (ABC Searching Packet)
- Preview the ABC Searching Packet (below)
- Picture dictionary book
- Paper
- Crayons or markers
- Scissors and paste
- Optional: Report cover or hole-punch and binder
Teacher Resources:
ABC Searching Packet | |
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Unit 1 Student Packet with Worksheets | |
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Supplemental Lesson
Grades: K-2
Unit 1
Lesson 3: Keep It Private
Estimated Time: 45 Minutes
Students review what information is private and should not be shared without a trusted adult’s permission. They view an online form that asks for private information and understand that they should never share this kind of information online. Students then view sites that ask them to create usernames, and they learn rules for safeguarding their private information when they create usernames.
Objectives:
Objectives:
- recognize the kind of information that is private.
- understand that they should never give out private information on the Internet.
- learn to create effective usernames that protect their private information
Key Vocabulary:
Private: something that you should keep to yourself, or share only with people you trust
Username: a name you make up so that you can see or do things on a website, sometimes called “screen name”
Private: something that you should keep to yourself, or share only with people you trust
Username: a name you make up so that you can see or do things on a website, sometimes called “screen name”
Materials and Preparation:
Materials and Preparations
Materials and Preparations
- Prepare by reading the Keep It Private Full Lesson Plan (below)
- Prepare to show students an example of an online form, like the checkout page on a site like Amazon or the registration page on a site like Etsy.
- Preview the websites SecretBuilders, Scholastic’s The Stacks, and LEGO and be prepared to show them to the class.
- Paper and pencils
Teacher Resources:
Keep It Private Full Lesson Plan | |
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UNIT 1 Student Packet with Worksheets | |
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Supplemental Lesson
Grades: K-2
Unit 1
Lesson 4: My Creative Work
Estimated Time: 45 Minutes
Students discuss the importance of citing work, as well as recognizing that they should give themselves proper credit so that others can attribute their work when they use it.
Objectives:
Objectives:
- define the Key Vocabulary term credit.
- list some reasons why credit is important for an artist.
- give themselves proper credit on their own work
Key Vocabulary:
Credit: public acknowledgement or praise given to a person
Time capsule: a container filled with items intended to communicate information about the present time when discovered by people in the future
Original: a piece of work that is new and created firsthand
Publish: to present a finished piece of work to the public
Credit: public acknowledgement or praise given to a person
Time capsule: a container filled with items intended to communicate information about the present time when discovered by people in the future
Original: a piece of work that is new and created firsthand
Publish: to present a finished piece of work to the public
Materials and Preparation:
- Prepare by reading the My Creative Work Full Lesson Plan (below)
- Make a copy of the My Creative Work Handout for each students and then cut the handouts in half (found in the My Creative Work Lesson Plan Packet).
- Preview the My Creative Work Lesson Plan Packet (below)
- Prepare a fictitious time capsule with a container (e.g., a shoebox) containing a few doodles or simplistic sketches that do not have names associated with them. You may want to provide hints in the sketches showing that you are the artist.
- Optional: Preview the free online drawing tool Picassohead.
- Optional: Print your template for crediting work on address labels.
Teacher Resources:
My Creative Work Full Lesson Plan | |
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UNIT 1 Student Packet with Worksheets | |
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Supplemental Lesson
Grades: K-2
Unit 1
Lesson 5: Sending Email
Estimated Time: 45 Minutes
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:
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 (below)
- 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 Lesson in Action Video
Sending Email Full Lesson Plan | |
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UNIT 1 Student Packet with Worksheets | |
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