Internet Safety

Scavenger Hunt Assignment`

(If you click on these links and they do not work you may need to copy and paste them into the Address line.) 1. Take this online quiz about Internet safety. (You may need to copy and paste this web address, it does not link.)

http://www.teachersfirst.com/20/getsource.cfm?id=5263 You may start anywhere on this Scavenger Hunt. Make sure you complete the hunt until you get the license with your name on it.

Go to:

http://www.teachersfirst.com/20/getsource.cfm?id=7659 (7-11)

2. Where should the computer be located in the house?

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3. Can computer use be addictive?

Circle one: Yes No

4. How do you check the history on your browser?

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6. What are four things that parent(s) guardian(s) should teach children not to say when they are out on the Internet?

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7. Go to http://www.netnanny.com/ Explain what NetNanny is and why parents might want to install it on the computers that are used by small children.__________________________

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8. Go to http://www.plagiarism.org/ Explain what is meant by plagiarism.______________________________

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9. How do you feel about plagiarism?_______________________________

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10. Go to http://www.wiredsafety.org/internet_predators/index.html What is the number of girls and boys who report that they meet predators on the Internet?_____________________________________________________

11. Go to http://www.wiredsafety.org/911/index.html Scroll down to Report Cyberabuse

List 5 different types of CyberNet Crimes that you can report .

(These are blue links.)

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12. What crime do you think is the worst (explain why).______________________

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13. Go to http://da.co.la.ca.us/pok/pokpredators.htm Fill in the Blanks

Kids Are Easy Victims

Most ___________________________ know more about the Internet than their ______________________ do. This knowledge gap keeps parents in the ___________________ about their kids’ ________________________activities. As shown in the statistics below, parental supervision in cyberspace is dangerously lax:

· _______________________ percent of parents do ________________monitor their children’s use of the Internet at all.

· Only 52 percent of parents ________________________ supervise their children’s Internet use.

· An estimated 62 percent of teens report that their parents know _____________________or _______________________ about their Web activities.

· Seventy-one percent of all parents _______________________________monitoring their child’s use of the Internet after the child turns ___________________________, not knowing that 72 percent of all __________________-related missing children are ______________________years of age or older.

14.”Google” http://www.google.com (type in the Google Search Line (Megan’s Law)

What happened to Megan? What is Megan’s Law?_______________________

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15. Go to http://da.co.la.ca.us/pok/pokpredators.htm#warnings List 5 warning signs of a child who is involved with an Internet Predator.

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16. Go to http://safety.com/articles/internet-predators.html what part of the Internet is it most difficult for parents to monitor?_______________________

17. What do you (your opinion) think can be done to guard teenagers and children from the dangers of the Internet?_________________________________________________

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“Think Before You Post”

Go to http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=660&title=Think_Before_You_Post In a short paragraph explain what happened in the video and what is meant by “Think Before You Post”.

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18. What is cyber bullying?

http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/what_is_cyberbullying_exactly.html 29. What program can cut cyber bullying in half?

http://www.fightcrime.org/cyberbullying/index.php 20. Name one way to stop cyber bulling.

http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/uploadedFiles/Press/10stepsLongPA.pdf  22. (EXCELLENT RESOURCE) Call to action. What must educators do? http://nj.gov/lps/cyber-bullying-web.pdf