Health Education I (7-8)
Strand 3: SAFETY AND DISEASE PREVENTION (SDP) Standard HI.SDP.3:
Health Education I (7-8)
Strand 3: SAFETY AND DISEASE PREVENTION (SDP) Standard HI.SDP.5:
1 class periods of 45 minutes each
Understanding how to recognize potential dangers on the Internet can help students lead healthier lives. A student who spends disproportionate hours on the Internet is at risk of addiction. Areas of potential addiction include (but are not limited to) social networking addiction, gaming addiction, shopping addiction, gambling addiction and pornography addiction.
Less than 20 years ago, the rapid and phenomenal growth of the World Wide Web was only imagined. The Internet's power and influence is astounding. Nearly universal access to information, commerce and personal communication has changed our lives. A whole new vocabulary has been spawned.
Technology is used in school in hundreds of ways never previously imagined. A student can be like a one-man band, virtually toggling, listening, watching, manipulating and responding all at the same time. Students, whose lives have been electronically altered, must be able to recognize both the merits and the hazards of the Internet, and learn to use it appropriately before it uses them.
Understanding how to recognize potential dangers on the Internet can help students lead healthier lives. A student who spends disproportionate hours on the Internet is at risk of addiction. Areas of potential addiction include (but are not limited to) social networking addiction, gaming addiction, shopping addiction, gambling addiction and pornography addiction.
Students should have basic computer literacy skills in accessing the Internet to benefit the most from this lesson.
The use of multimedia, oral discussion, and written work reach across all domains, meeting the needs of various levels and learning styles.
Students make posters about Internet safety, healthy use of the Internet, and communicating with friends without the net or cell phones.