Private and Personal Information

Digital Literacy and Online Safety (Y5) – Lesson 2 A note about this lesson This lesson is taken from Common Sense Education’s excellent Digital Citizenship curriculum. Their resources are shared for free under A Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. You can find the original resources HERE.  Objectives Identify the reasons why people…

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My Media Choices

Digital Literacy and Online Safety (Y5) – Lesson 1 A note about this lesson This lesson is taken from Common Sense Education’s excellent Digital Citizenship curriculum. Their resources are shared for free under A Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. You can find the original resources HERE.  Objectives Learn the “What? When? How…

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Digital Literacy and Online Safety (Year 5)

About this unit: Six lessons taken from Common Sense Education’s excellent digital citizenship curriculum, covering a wide range of topics including well-being, privacy and security, online identity, relationships, communication and the media. National Curriculum Links – Computing KS2 The content of this plan cover the following NC strands:  use search technologies effectively, appreciate how results…

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Artificial Intelligence and searching

Searching The Web – Lesson 6 Objectives To understand and explain artificial intelligence (AI) in simple terms To create clear and precise prompts for a generative AI chatbot To understand possible negative uses of generative AI Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Whiteboards and pens or notebooks for the students Access to a generative AI chatbot account…

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Searching Maps

Searching The Web – Lesson 5 Objectives To compare and contrast different types of maps To use a variety of tools in digital maps to find and explore places To stay safe when going online and to know what to do if they have a problem Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Kids easy links presentation (to…

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Evaluating websites 2

Searching The Web – Lesson 4 Objectives To stay safe when going online and to know what to do if they have a problem Make and explain judgements about the design of digital content Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Website evaluation sheets Kids easy links presentation (to share with students to give them easy access to…

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Evaluating websites 1

Searching The Web – Lesson 3 Objectives To stay safe when going online and to know what to do if they have a problem Makes judgements about the reliability and validity of digital content To research and validate information on websites Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Searching The Web Lesson 1 – Refined Searching Lesson 2 -…

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Other ways of searching

Searching The Web – Lesson 2 Objectives To stay safe when going online and to know what to do if they have a problem To use a variety of tools when searching for images  To understand and be respectful of copyright when searching for images Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Searching The Web Lesson 1 – Refined…

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Refined Searching

Searching The Web – Lesson 1 Objectives To explain in simple terms what a search engine is To understand how search results are selected and ranked, including that search engines use ‘web crawler programs’. To stay safe when going online and to know what to do if they have a problem Lesson Resources Lesson Slides…

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Searching the Web

About this unit: Take a detailed look at all elements of searching the web with care and consideration, covering: searching tricks, validating websites, improving your searches, searching images and searching online maps. National Curriculum Links – Computing KS2 The content of this plan cover the following National Curriculum strands:  understand computer networks, including the internet;…

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