Health Education - 4th Grade
Strand 3: SAFETY AND DISEASE PREVENTION (SDP) Standard 4.SDP.4:
2 class periods of 45 minutes each
Small Groups
This lesson is adapted from Google's Be Internet Awesome Lesson 1: Share With Care. It specifically focuses on Activity 1: When not to share and Activity 4: Keeping it Private.
Blended learning is becoming more and more common in schools today. Digital citizenship is an area that students need to be directly taught so they can navigate the internet safely.
The Be Internet Awesome website has all the information and resources you need to begin teaching. They have premade slides to present with the use of Pear Deck, which makes the presentation interactive with the students.
Students need no prior knowledge for this lesson.
Students will:
1. Build background knowledge by giving each small group of 4-5 a set of the vocabulary matching cards. Have them work together to match the words to what they think are the correct definitions. When the groups are done, go over each word and its definition with the class, and have the students correct their matches if needed.
2. Have the following discussion with your class (taken straight from the Be Internet Awesome Resources website):
3. Give the following questions to have the students discuss in their small groups:
4. Discuss as a class that secrets are just one type of personal information that we might want to keep private or share only with trusted family or friends. Once you’ve shared a secret, you’re no longer fully in control of where it can go. What other kinds of information should we be careful to protect? Have the class brainstorm some possible suggestions. In the end, make sure the following are included:
5. Give each student in the small groups a scenario that you have printed out. Have the students each take turns reading their scenario and having the group discuss what they would do in each situation.
6. Wrap Up: Have a whole-class discussion on the big ideas that students learned in this lesson on what to share and what not to share.
Have students log onto Interland, a digital game that goes along with the Be Internet Awesome lessons to reinforce what they have learned.
If you want to use a digital poster or flyer maker, like Adobe Spark, you can. Or you can just have your students use posterboard and markers to make their poster.
Students will demonstrate what they have learned by creating a poster or flyer to hang around the school to remind other students about digital citizenship and online safety. They may work in pairs or small groups. The link to the flyer shows an example of a flyer made on Adobe Spark.