Established Goal(s) : Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions

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Title of Unit: Subject/Course: Grade 9, Health

Internet Safety and You


Topic: Designer: Thomas Brown
Internet safety, netiquette and social media
Stage 1- Desired Results
Established Goal(s):
NYS Health standard 2, AASL standards 1.1.1, AASL 1.1.8, AASL 1.3.4, AASL 2.1.3, AASL
3.1.4, AASL 3.3.4.
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
Students will understand that… 1. Who can find out information
1. What happens on the internet does not about me online?
always stay on the internet. 2. What kind of image does my
2. You should treat people the same on the online presence send to the
internet as you would in real life. world?
3. Security tools protect a computer from 3. How can what I do on the net
viruses and malware. effect my life?
4. What are the basic security tools?
Students will know… Students will be able to…
1. How to protect themselves online. 1. Explain common internet scams
2. How to recognize online dangers. to their peers.
3. How to act appropriately on the internet. 2. Interact online in a positive
4. How to manage their online image. manner.
3. Create profiles that do not reveal
personal information.
Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence
Performance Task(s):

Scenario: You are a freshman in high school. Due to problems at the school you have been
asked to remind the upperclassmen of the importance of internet safety. You will create a
poster, video, presentation or written work relating to internet safety or netiquette.

Task: Students will research one specific aspect of internet safety or netiquette. They will then
create a project that details this aspect of the topic. Students may use examples they have found
in research or from their own lives. Projects should include solutions and ways to avoid internet
dangers.

Other evidence:
1. Online school profile
2. Sharing responses to questions on the schools use policy.
3. Responding to other students answers.
4. Response to cyber-ethics scenarios.
5. Reflections.
Stage 3 – Learning Plan
Learning Activities:

1. Classroom/ library center: Introduction, students will be drawn into the lesson through a
class discussion about current internet safety and netiquette issues. Including how to
make an amplifier from a pringles can to find unprotected wireless signals to Charlie
Sheens online breakdown.
2. Library center: Students will be introduced to the online modules they will be using for
the lesson and in the high school. Students will create their profile and answer the
question “What does my online image say about me?”
3. Homework: Students will read the acceptable use policy from the school. They will have
guiding questions. What are the school rules on using school equipment, school email,
searching the net, communicating with other students, breaking the law and what are
your obligations when using school resources outside of school. Students will then
choose one rule and explain why it exists using the online module.
4. Online: To continue getting an overview of the topic students will read from a collection
of netiquette fop as linked to the online module. They will write down what the problem
was and what should have been done instead. Students will then respond to one of their
classmates answers. http://www.uni.illinois.edu/library/computerlit/scenarios.php
5. Library center: The class will meet to narrow their topics, develop thesis statements and
formulate questions. The class will be divided into those interested in internet safety and
those interested in netiquette. The teacher and librarian will spend time with each group
to brainstorm topics and discuss thesis statements.
6. Research: Students will use the online pathfinder to plan and begin their research.
http://netiquetteandonlinesafety.weebly.com/
7. The assignment will stress that students find, analyze and evaluate
information using evidence to establish a conclusion.
8. Advanced students may use any number of storytelling tools to tell a moral
tale about internet safety or netiquette. Tools such as storybird, animoto,
video, slide shows, written narrative or a media collage.

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