Internet Safety and Ethics

Students' first stop on this adventure will be internet safety and ethics. They will learn how to navigate the online world responsibly, making wise decisions about their online presence and protecting their personal information. Students will learn the importance of respecting others' privacy, understanding digital footprints, and being mindful of their online behavior. By developing these skills, students become conscientious digital citizens who contribute positively to the online community.

Standards

2: Digital Citizen - Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical. (a - d)

Objectives

In this course students will mainly be working in Pear Deck slides to complete vocabulary and internet safety lessons. In doing so, students will:

Complete Pear Deck vocabulary flashcard assignments
Complete five Pear Deck lessons on internet privacy and safety
Complete a teacher-created Google Form quiz to show mastery of the content of above lessons

Resources

Below are some shared folders that contain Pear Deck resources, including vocab, for this unit on tech safety and ethics (digital citizenship). You will need to be logged in to your district Google account to access these folders. Also, please make copies of the slideshows and save to your own Google drive before using.

	This folder contains the slides for presenting, and for your students to respond in five slideshow-based lessons.
	This folder contains the slides for presenting vocabulary terms to your students .
	This folder contains handouts and other guides for use in this course.
	This folder contains a Spanish version of the Be Internet Awesome slides.

Lesson resources for 6th grade technology class at LaVenture Middle School, 2023