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Reliable or not: what is worth trusting online?

Topics Reception/Year 1

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Objectives

Computing

  • Be responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.
  • Use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private.
  • Identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies.

Lesson Planning

This time you are looking to claim your red rainbow paint - explore how some things online (people and places) are reliable and others aren’t. Learn how to identify those sites you can trust.

Teaching Outcomes
 To recognise that people we meet online are strangers and can not necessarily be trusted. To understand that information online is not always reliable. To understand that attachments and pop-ups should not be opened without checking they are safe first.

Children will:

  • Understand the dangers of ‘meeting’ people online - who to trust and who not to trust.
  • Identify some basic features of a reliable and unreliable website and carry out a ‘safe’ online search.
  • Understand that attachments and pop-ups are not always from reliable sources and can be unsafe to open.

Provided Resources

  • Rock images and explanations
  • Trust it traffic lights game

You Will Need

  • Masks and disguises
  • Granite samples

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