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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Let’s Give Credit

Digital Literacy and Online Safety (Y3) – Lesson 6 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 Explain how giving credit is…

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Putting a STOP to Online Meanness

Digital Literacy and Online Safety (Y3) – Lesson 5 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 Understand what online meanness can…

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Who’s In Your Online Community?

Digital Literacy and Online Safety (Y3) – Lesson 4 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 Compare and contrast how they…

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Digital Trails

Digital Literacy and Online Safety (Y3) – Lesson 3 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 that the information they…

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