copyright

= Cybhouse.com Cybertreehouse.com = __** CYBERTREEHOUSE.COM ** __ This site is intended for the upper elementary grades but could also be used successfully by many second graders. The site is presented by the Business Software Alliance, was copyrighted in 2010, and is intended to promote cyber safety and teach children about the “wrongs” of copyright infringement.

If you click on the "//Be Cyber Safe"// sign you will get to a page that has information telling children about cyber safety, copyright, and protecting the creative products of others. There are also sites on the page for kids, parents, and teachers to access information relating to the differing types of cybercrime (i.e. financial, piracy, hacking, and online porn) and appropriate links in each section that provide more information. One of the best links I found was the __Family Guide Book__ which provided access to sections for parents, teachers, and kids in appropriate formats and including appropriate links in each section. EXCELLENT! There are four other links on the page but only one works, []. This has games to teach kids more about cyber safety, etc.

If you click on the "//Smart and// // Uncool //" sign you will find a list of smart things to do such as visit homework help sites and visit cool educational sites such as Nat’l Geographic, PBS Kids, Nickelodeon, etc .and other related links. You will also find a list of uncool things to do on the internet such as email and chat with strangers, give out personal info, etc. The other two signs you can click on are the "//Game"s// sign and the "//Videos"// sign. Both areas have activities that teach more about the target topics of this website. There is also a quiz kids can take to see what they have learned about computer safety and ethics.


 * __ IN THE CLASSROOM __ **

In my second grade classroom we would interactively begin construction of a KWL chart about internet safety and copyright. I would pass out two sticky notes to each child and have them write one thing they know about internet safety on one sticky note and one thing they know about copyright on the other. We would then post the sticky notes on our KWL (What I **Know**, What I **Want** to Know, What I **Learned**) chart and discuss our findings. Next, we would record the things we want to learn about internet safety and I would probably have to teach them what a copyright is. We would follow up the next day with a lesson on internet safety. The next day we would review what we learned about internet safety and follow up with a lesson on copyright. On Friday, we would go to the computer lab, everyone would work through the Cybertreehouse site. Upon returning to the classroom, I would pass out two sticky notes to each child and they would write one thing they learned about internet safety and one thing they learned about copyright and we would discuss what they learned. I would assign the Cybertreehouse quiz as a center for children to work on using the three computers in my classroom. When all had finished the quiz I would make my own paper/pencil quiz so that I could evaluate the my instruction and see who learned what. I would then reteach any of the important concepts that needed reteaching and then reassess. As a final activity I would have each child make their own poster about how to stay safe on the internet. This sounds pretty good! I think we’ll do this in May.