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Overview
Students learn that Internet users are citizens of a global community with
the power to share ideas with people around the world.
Objectives
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Define cyber citizens as members of a globally-connected community |
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Describe some responsibilities and privileges of cyber citizens |
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Explain how the power of the Internet enables people all over the
world to share opinions |
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Materials
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Activity sheets (2) |
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Oversized paper key |
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Online computer access |
Introduce (offline)
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Have volunteers describe some privileges and responsibilities they
have gained now that they are older. Guide students to understand
that responsibilities include following rules and that they follow
rules in exchange for certain privileges. |
Teach 1 (offline)
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Distribute Activity Sheet 1 and read with students. |
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Hold a mock "Key to Cyberspace" presentation ceremony, in which
you ask students to accept the responsibilities and privileges of
cyberspace. |
Teach 2 (online)
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Distribute Activity Sheet 2. |
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Point out how using the Internet makes it easier to reach people
all over the world, collect their responses, and display the results
for anyone to see. |
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Take students to www.becybersmart.org and click on the
triangle. Find the title of this lesson, and open its links. Choose
a site to explore with the class. |
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Allow students to vote in a poll, view the poll results, and complete
the page. |
Teach 3 (offline)
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Have students write their own poll questions with multiple-choice
answers and have other students respond. |
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Show them how to tally the results and display them as a bar or
circle graph. |
Close (offline)
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Ask: What is a cyber citizen? |
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Ask: What responsibilities do cyber citizens have? |
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Ask: How do people use Web polls to share ideas? |
Extend (online)
The following activity can be added for students who completed this lesson
in a previous grade.
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Have students visit and submit entries to a Web site that allows
them to post their own poll questions. |
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Citizens of CyberSpace