Name of Lesson: Online Safety

Counselor: Erica Sgroi

UNIT/TOPIC:
(If unit, note how many
lessons in unit):

1 Lesson

DOMAIN:
(academic, career,
personal/social)

Personal/Social

GRADE LEVEL(S):

4th grade

GUIDANCE
STANDARD(S):
ASCA Standards
Addressed:

PS:C1.1 Demonstrate knowledge of personal information (i.e. telephone number, home address,
emergency contact)
PS:C1.2 Learn about the relationship between rules, laws, safety and the protection rights of the
individual
PS: C1.4 Demonstrate the ability to set boundaries, rights and personal privacy
PS:C1.7 Apply effective problem-solving and decision-making skills to make safe and healthy
choices

INDIANA
STANDARDS
ADDRESSED:
*If this lesson is
crosswalked with other
academic areas, please list
here.
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES

TIME REQUIRED

3-5.3.13 Identify student rights

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To learn about online safety

To learn what can and shouldnt be shared online
To learn what private information is

30 minutes

MATERIALS NEEDED

White board, dry erase markers, worksheets, pre/post assessments

Pre-test, warm up discussion, discussion about what information should stay secret, closing
going back over what was learned, post assessment

ACTIVITY SUMMARY

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PROCEDURE

Warm up Activity 5 minutes (PRE-TEST GIVEN FIRST)

Ask Students: Have you ever chatted online with someone that you didnt
know?
Can you ever really know if an online-only friend is male or female?
Can you know for sure how old and online-only friend is?

2.

Stay Safe 6-7 minutes

Ask students: Why may it be easier to share school problems with an onlineonly friend than an in-person, face-to-face friend?
Remind students that you never really know how they are chatting with the

person on the other end may be an adult or a child you can never be sure.
Use white board discuss what private information is: answers may be
name, age, DOB, SSN, computer passwords, address, phone number, school
name, email address, credit card numbers, parents names, where parents
work, photos
Hand out worksheet Chatting Safety Checklist 7 minutes
Discuss both sides of the worksheet
Closing 5 minutes
Ask Students: How are online-only friends and in-person, face-to-face friends
different? What kind of information should you not share with online-only
friends? What should you do when someone you dont know asks for private
information?
Issue post-test after discussion

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EVALUATION:
What data will you
collect and How will you
collect data to show:
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2.

impact on K-12
students
feedback on
lesson

FOLLOW-UP PLAN:
CITATION(S)
References/Resources
Used:
Cite copyrighted
materials, but do not
reproduce copyrighted
materials in your lesson
plan. Non-copyrighted
materials must be
reproduced and included
in your lesson plan.

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I plan on following up the next time the lunch group meets. I plan on asking
students if they recall anything from this lesson and ask if they are using the
information that they learned.
I plan to use the pre and post assessment results to show the effectiveness of the
lesson. As well as doing the pre/post tests, I also plan on doing a follow up
assessment 4-6 weeks after the lesson to see how much of the information was
retained.

I plan on talking briefly with the students during the next lunch group about how they have
been safe on the internet.

Lesson Adapted from: Common Sense Medias Talking Safely Online 2012.