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Cybersafety Lesson Plans
Complete lesson plans with clear objectives for use with students or faculty for professional development days.

Any Friend of Yours teaches the importance of knowing who we’re communicating with online.

 

The Art of Good Online Researching helps identify valid sources, avoiding fake news and helping them vet sources for credibility.

 

Avoiding Clickbait helps students identify which online material is a trap, perhaps leading to malware (viruses), but usually wasting their time and allowing for data mining by the provider.

 

Be Aware of What You Share teaches that wisdom comes with experience, something that only comes over time. Posting personal information often leads to unexpected and undesirable consequences.

 

Building a Better Bulletin Board is a great hands-on activity for all grades with an end result that creates a bulletin board that shows that people are more alike than they probably realize.

 

Don’t Get Tricked by Fake News helps students understand the various types of media that are presented by what may appear as legitimate new information. In today’s world, this can help them in their personal and academic endeavors.

 

The Four Ps of Cybersafety explains how what people post online can affect them based on which of the “Ps” they are and their motivations towards the student.

 

Gone Phishing bridges the gap between cybersafety and cybersecurity. Students will learn how data mining and deliberate attempts to harm them can cause serious problems not only for them, but for those around them.

 

If I Only Had a Penny shows in a fast and easy way how something going viral can spread, for good or bad. With people often only thinking of how many “likes” they can get on content, they may not see the negative consequences of going viral.

 

It’s How You Ask that Matters is specifically designed for professional development days. It helps educators understand what students may be going through and introduces the HELP Network so that students will have the help they need when they need it most.

 

Tattling Vs. Telling is aimed grade and middle school students, helping them realize when it’s more important to get help from an adult than to keep a secret or avoid being called a snitch by their peers.

 

The T.H.I.N.K. Principle helps prevent problems by making people think about what they’re doing before the click [send].

 

Words Have Power explains just how important our choice of words can be online, both by what they say and what they don’t say.

© 2024 by Joseph M. Yeager 

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