The 3rd grade internet safety lesson has the following objectives: - Help students understand the potential consequences of clicking ads and pop-ups. - Distinguish between informational and advertising content online. - Recognize how websites use fun features to encourage buying products. The lesson will explore the Crayola website, discuss clicking links and ads, and assess student understanding with questions. The purpose is to teach students safe and responsible internet use.

1. 3rd Grade Internet Safety Lesson
• Internet Safety: 3rd grade standards
Gitta Denning 4/18/2013
Jill Berry 3rd grade
1 45-minute lesson
• Purpose
The purpose of this lesson is to highlight internet safety standards appropriate to 3 rd grade
as set forth by the District 181 Information Literacy Standards.
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• Learning Objective/Learning Target
Students will be able to
o understand the potential consequences of clicking on a link, pop-up window or other
advertising
o distinguish between information and advertising content
o recognize how a site’s fun and interesting features help sell a product
o understand that the main purpose of product sites is to encourage viewers to buy the
product.
• Standards
Common Core:
CC.3.RL.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring
explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
CC.3.RI.4 Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases
in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
CC.3.L.6 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and
domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal
relationships
CC.3.W.7 Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
NETS-S
Digital Citizenship
Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice
legal and ethical behavior. Students:
• 5a. advocate and practice safe, legal and responsible use of information technology.
• 5d. exhibit leadership for digital citizenship
District 181 Standards:
Standard 5: Understand and practice Internet safety
• Identify the potential consequences of clicking on links, pop-up windows, and other
advertising
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2. • Practice good manners online
• Distinguish between information and advertising content
• Instructional resources & materials (list all print and non-print materials and/or equipment
you will use)
Needed by you:
Interactive white board
Overhead Projector
Handouts
Needed by students:
Interactive Clickers
• Instructional strategies and learning tasks (outline your lesson so another person could
teach it)
Focusing event: 5 minutes
We will start by talking about the definition for the word “purpose”. In trying to help
the students ultimately understand the purpose for some of the content and advertising
they will see online, I will ask the students to think about a toy store they have visited
and what the purpose is of the store. I will then as them to imagine being at a toy store
that has an area set up with toys and games that they can try out. They will need to tell
me the purpose of this area. I will ask them if they have been to the public library and
seen toys, games or puzzles set out and if those items were there because someone was
trying to sell something.
I will mention that some web sites, like stores, have things for sale including toys or
games or other items kids might want. These sites have special areas you can go to play,
but they are still there to sell things. These sites are different from sites that are
designed to give you information.
Advertising vs. Information
Input from you: 3 minutes
o I will open up the Crayola website and ask students to help me define the word
PRODUCT and locate or determine the product being sold on this website.
Guided practice: 10 minutes
o Students will interact with me as we explore together the Crayola website.
o As we look at the Products, Coloring Pages, and Crafts pages, we will answer the
following questions:
 What is this page trying to get you to do?
 What can you do on this page? How would this page encourage you to do what
Crayola wants you to do?
 Who is the “Star” of this website?
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3.  What is the purpose of this website?
Clicking on links, pop-ups or advertisments
More Guided Practice: 10 minutes
o We will now view a “fake” email I sent to myself to use as an example for clicking on
links
o I will talk to the kids about clicking on advertisements by showing them the
Disney.com page
o I will ask the kids for examples of sites they might be using on the internet that
having advertising on them
Closure: 10 minutes
o I will end the lesson by reviewing the definitions for purpose (as in, what is the
purpose of the website they are visiting), product (is there a “star” of the website
that is more important than the information or game being played), and advertise
(how attention is drawn to things to make people want them).
o I will ask if there are other examples besides Crayola that they can think of that are
websites that advertise rather than inform (Club Penguin, lego.com, webkinz)
o We will have an interactive assessment with the kids using clickers to answer multiple
choice and T/F questions (see below)
Book Check Out: 10 minutes
• Differentiation
I will contact the 3rd grade teachers prior to the lesson to ask if there are any
accommodations I need to make in order to best support any students who will benefit from
differentiation.
• Assessment
Assessment will be informal and will happen during closure when I get feedback from them
on definitions for words and concepts discussed during the lesson, examples of other
websites that advertise rather than inform and ask the multiple choice and T/F questions.
• What’s next?
If kids are unclear on the Internet Safety concepts we are talking about based on the
assessment at the end of the lesson, more time will be spent on these concepts in future
lessons.
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