LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Understand how to avoid scammers and protect yourself online.

HEALTH ED STANDARDS

NHES 4: Use interpersonal communication skills to support health and wellbeing of self and others.

CASEL COMPETENCY: Relationship Skills

KEY VOCAB

predators

malware

ransom

manipulative

Lesson Plan: A User’s Guide to Online Safety

PREPARING TO READ

Before you read the article “A User’s Guide to Online Safety,” ask your students the following essential question:

What can you do to avoid putting yourself at risk online?

READING AND DISCUSSION

  • Have your students read the article; read the article out loud to them; or have students partner-read the article out loud. Then revisit the essential question. Have their answers changed?

BUILDING COMPREHENSION

Check students’ comprehension of and engagement with the story with the following assessment tools:

  • Comprehension Quiz
  • Critical-Thinking Questions
  • Vocab Review
  • Reflection Prompt
  • Video

EXPANDING SEL OPPORTUNITIES

Continue the learning journey with the following activity:

Work with a partner to choose one or more of the online dangers included in the article to create a comic strip about. Your comic strip should show characters encountering an online threat, and handling the situation using tips from the article.

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