Basic Operations and Concepts (BOC)

BOC 3.1


Students will demonstrate that, with direct assistance when required, they can

• safely use school media display equipment to play video and audio resources
• safely use school computer equipment to access and navigate software programs designed for use by students at this grade level

BOC 3.3

With the assistance of their teachers when required, students will select information from a range of identified print, media, and electronic sources to create the following, to tell a story or report the results of their learning to an identified audience

• an electronic publication, such as a web page or a multimedia presentation containing text, images, and sound BOC 3.6
• Students will demonstrate an understanding of and use basic terminology related to the IT they are using at their current grade level.

Lessons

Introducing the Internet: Telephones and Networks

Introducing the Internet: Messages, Envelopes, Addresses

Introducing the Internet: Exploring the Internet

MNet Special Initiatives

Background information for teachers about the Internet and Internet issues can be found in the following Web Awareness Canada sections:

Safe Passage

Kids for Sale

Fact or Folly

Privacy Playground: The First Adventure of the Three CyberPigs

Productivity Tools and Software (PTS)

PTS 3.3

Students will identify and describe different ways in which information can be created, stored, used, presented and transmitted.

PTS 3.5

Students will select information media which provide access to information they require for their learning. Students will also successfully search those media for relevant information

Lessons

Enjoying Television

Introducing the Internet: Telephones and Networks

Introducing the Internet: Messages, Envelopes, Addresses

Newspaper Ads

Looking at Newspapers: Introduction

Communications Technology (CT)

CT 3.2

Students will explore how information is created, presented, stored and transmitted in different forms for different audiences and purposes.

CT 3.3

With the assistance of their teachers, students will begin to select and use appropriate techniques to manipulate and transmit information when creating

• electronic documents, such as graphs and charts, multimedia presentations, word processor/desktop publishing files, web pages and databases
• audio recordings
• photographic, scanned and paint/draw images short video stories for particular purposes and audiences

CT 3.4

With the assistance of their teachers, students will create, using web authoring software, a linear-design web page that incorporates text, still images and links to other sites related to their studies.

Looking at Food Advertising

Packaging Tricks

Junk Food Jungle

Thinking About Television and Movies

Enjoying Television

Introducing the Internet: Telephones and Networks

Introducing the Internet: Messages, Envelopes, Addresses

Newspaper Ads

Looking at Newspapers: Introduction

Looking at Newspapers: Newspaper Ads

MNet Special Initiatives

Privacy Playground: The First Adventure of the Three CyberPigs

Research, Problem Solving, and Decision Making (RPSD)

RPSD 3.1

With the assistance of their teachers and/or a teacher librarian, students will define and use simple search strategies in identifying and locating print, video and electronic resources to meet their information needs.

RPSD 3.2

With the assistance of their teachers and/or a teacher librarian, students will search full-text and encyclopaedic electronic resources, as well as teacher-selected Internet web addresses specifically designed for elementary-level use, for information relevant to their needs.

RPSD 3.5

With the assistance of their teachers, students will complete short, clearly defined, secondary research tasks, assessing information selected from several sources.

RPSD 3.7

With the assistance of their teachers, students will record and cite information sources used in their research.

MNet Special Initiatives

Web Awareness Canada Resources for teachers:

How to Search the Internet Effectively

Acceptable Use Policies

Reducing the Risk in the Classroom

How To Discourage Plagiarism

Social, Ethical, and Human Issues

SEHI 3.3

Students will work collaboratively with teachers to develop responsibility for their personal safety during the use of IT. They will report to their teachers communications received verbally -- or in print, media and electronic formats which

• request personal, identifying information are disturbing
• initiate or request personal contact

SEHI 3.4

Students will respond personally and with developing critical awareness to a range of print, media, and electronic resources.

SEHI 3.5

Students will begin to identify the values and points of view that contribute to finished works and documents as they select print, media and electronic resources for possible use.

SEHI 3.6

Students will demonstrate knowledge of and comply with school Internet access and use policy.

SEHI 3.7

Students will obtain appropriate permission when they wish to include copyrighted data, text, sound or images in their research and presentations.

Lessons

Introducing the Internet: Telephones and Networks

Introducing the Internet: Messages, Envelopes, Addresses

Introducing the Internet: Exploring the Internet

Classroom Handouts

Cybersense Poem

Welcome to the Safety Highway

MNet Special Initiatives

Web Awareness Canada Resources for teachers:

Acceptable Use Policies

Reducing the Risk in the Classroom

Online Predators

Disabling Java and
JavaScript in Your Browser

How to Search the Internet Effectively

Tracking Where Kids Have Been Online

Reporting Offensive or Illegal Internet Content

Privacy Playground: The First Adventure of the Three  CyberPigs