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TEACHING INTERNET SAFETY IS THE LAW!

Beginning with the 2009-2010 school year, the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois General Assembly have mandated that all public schools set aside instructional time each year (Grades 3-12) to teach students how to use the Internet safely. The resources linked at the top of this page can be used by teachers to satisfy this state requirement. District #205 teachers are not limited to using only these resources;others may be substituted to fit your curriculum. The selection of content used is left to the classroom teacher(s). 

For more information about this requirement, please visit the Illinois State Board of Education's Internet Safety Curriculum page.

Visit the Illinois Attorney General's Stop Cyberbullying Web site.

High Tech Crimes Bureau/Illinois Child Exploitation Task Force

Google and iKeepSafe have partnered to develop Be Internet Awesome, which has earned the Seal of Alignment, by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

Google's Applied Digital Skills team has developed an Online Safety and Digital Well Being curriculum to help students learn how to stay safe online and use digital environments in healthier ways.

HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

SAFE AND RESPONSIBLE USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING, WEBSITES, CHAT ROOMS, ELECTRONIC MAIL, BULLETIN BOARDS, INSTANT MESSAGING, ETC.

RECOGNIZING, AVOIDING AND REPORTING ONLINE SOLICITATIONS BY SEXUAL PREDATORS

  • Download and teach the Making Good Decisions lesson plan and activity sheetsPlease read the "Warning" on the lesson plan page before deciding to teach this lesson or not. Take the quiz and discuss as a class.

RISKS OF TRANSMITTING PERSONAL INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET

RECOGNIZING AND AVOIDING UNSOLICITED OR DECEPTIVE ONLINE COMMUNICATION

  • Have the class take the SonicWall Phishing IQ test online to see if they know how to tell real email messages from phishing messages. 

RECOGNIZING AND REPORTING ONLINE HARASSMENT AND CYBERBULLYING

REPORTING ILLEGAL ONLINE ACTIVITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS

  • After teaching the lesson above, visit and discuss CyberTip Line and The Internet Crime Complaint Center. Read and discuss the "What to Report" list. Demonstrate for students how to report solicitation from a sexual predator or online criminal using one of the above web resources. (Do not actually submit! Explain to students that the authorities take this information very, very seriously. Treat it like a 9-1-1 call.) 

UNDERSTANDING COPYRIGHT LAWS ON WRITTEN MATERIALS, PHOTOGRAPHS, MUSIC AND VIDEO