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.) 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: (7-11) 2. Where should the computer be located in the house? __________________________________________________________
3. Can computer use be addictive? Circle one: Yes No 4. How do you check the history on your browser? ______________________________________________________________ 5. What are Cookies? ______________________________________________________________ 6. What are four things that parent(s) guardian(s) should teach children not to say when they are out on the Internet? 1.______________________________________________ 2.______________________________________________ 3.______________________________________________ 4.______________________________________________
7. Go to Explain what NetNanny is and why parents might want to install it on the computers that are used by small children.__________________________ ____________________________________________________________ 8. Go to Explain what is meant by plagiarism.______________________________ ___________________________________________________________ 9. How do you feel about plagiarism?_______________________________ ___________________________________________________________ 10. Go to What is the number of girls and boys who report that they meet predators on the Internet?_____________________________________________________
11. Go to Scroll down to Report Cyberabuse List 5 different types of CyberNet Crimes that you can report. (These are blue links.) 1.______________________________________________ 2.______________________________________________ 3.______________________________________________ 4.______________________________________________ 5.______________________________________________ 6.______________________________________________ 12. What crime do you think is the worst (explain why).______________________ ______________________________________________________________
13. Go to Fill in the Blankshttp://da.co.la.ca.us/pok/pokpredators.htm 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” (type in the Google Search Line (Megan’s Law) What happened to Megan? What is Megan’s Law?_______________________ _______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________
15. Go to List 5 warning signs of a child who is involved with an Internet Predator. 1.______________________________________________ 2.______________________________________________ 3.______________________________________________ 4.______________________________________________ 5.______________________________________________ 16. Go to what part of the Internet is it most difficult for parents to monitor?_______________________http://safety.com/articles/internet-predators.html
17. What do you (your opinion) think can be done to guard teenagers and children from the dangers of the Internet?_________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ “Think Before You Post” Go to u_Post u_Post In a short paragraph explain what happened in the video and what is meant by “Think Before You Post”. ________________________________________________________________
18. What is cyber bullying? What program can cut cyber bullying in half? Name one way to stop cyber bulling (EXCELLENT RESOURCE) Call to action. What must educators do?