Children and their parents can complete the challenges together, increase their joint knowledge of online safety issues and develop an agreed upon Online Safety Promise for their family. We encourage you to recommend the site as a take-home activity for your students to complete with their parents.
Safe Surf can also be used effectively in the classroom to educate students in grades five and six about online safety issues. Depending on your access to computers and how you want your students to use the website, you can use a variety of approaches in terms of student access/usage. For example, you can have students working in pairs, individually or you can present the site via a LCD projector and review the site’s content with your entire class at one time or in stages.
The What’s Online section contains background information on each of the online subject areas. Stay Safe Online features question and answer challenges that will engage students and test their knowledge of the online safety issues.
Online articles and websites pertaining to online safety that are of interest to teachers.
The Safe Surf Unit Plan has been created to help teachers of grades 5 and 6 explore with students the various dangers they may encounter during their online experiences.
This Safe Surf segment offers a ready-to-use information for Parent Night, should you wish to communicate an overview of the content that is covered on the Safe Surf website and/or discuss the role of parents in keeping their children safe while exploring the internet.