Virginia Internet Safety Guidelines              

Intro Page Age-Appropriate Guidelines Cyberbullying Definitions E-Mail Ethics Filtering Hate Sites Identity Theft Instant Messaging Organizations Internet Benefits & Risks Legal: National Legal: Virginia Laws Newsletters Online Games Parent/Child Sample Agreements Peer to Peer (P2P)or File Sharing Predators (Luring / Grooming) Professional Development Reporting Problems Research Sample School & Division Policies Sites for Educators Sites for Kids Sites for Older Kids Sites for Parents Social Networking (Blogs,         Personal Web Pages, Chats Student Instruction: Lesson Plans/         Curricula Virginia Law Virginia Guidelines Booklet Virginia School Resources		Student Instruction: Lesson Plans/Curricula Activities and Lessons by Wired Safety http://www.wiredsafety.org/wiredlearning/toc.html • New site with great lessons Curriculum Scope by CyberSmart Education Company http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org/curr_over/ • 65 lesson plans, arranged by age level and subtopic (safety, manners, advertising, research and technology), with individual lessons (under “Lesson Plans and Activity Sheets”) and posters, sample letters to parents, and tips for home Internet use (under “More Free Stuff”) Educational Games by Media Awareness Network http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/index.cfm • Interactive games with teacher’s guides for educating about Internet safety, advertising ploys, and hate sites Educators Home by NetSmartz http://www.netsmartz.org/educators.htm • Classroom materials that teach children to be safe online iLEARN Curriculum by i-SAFE http://ilearn.isafe.org/ • Curriculum available only after online training Online Safety and Digital Ethics by Nortel LearniT http://www.nortellearnit.org/LearniT/technology/Online_Safety/ http://www.nortellearnit.org/LearniT/technology/Digital_Ethics/ • Links to short informational videos about Internet Safety and Ethics Safe Passage: Introduction by Media Awareness Network http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/wa_teachers/safe_passage_teachers/index.cfm • Links to Internet safety topics with lesson plans This site was developed by the Institute for Connecting Science Research to the Classroom at Virginia Tech. For additional input please contact John Wenrich