Name (first and last) ______Period _____
Using Metacognition When Using the Internet
Be Safe.
Be a Good Cyber Citizen.
Be Smart About Which Sites You Use
Part 1: Be Safe
To review our school’s guidelines for being safe on the Internet, go to
Click on the tab for Parents.
Then click on Social Media Safety.
Fill in these sentences with the words from the Social Media Safety document: Score ______/15
A. Once posted, what you post is out of your ______and is ______
to others -even if you think you have ______it.
B. Passwords are ______and should not be shared with anyone but a ______or ______.
C. Never use private contact information in any ______.
D. ______everything you read or view online. _
E. Never open a ______from someone you ______.
F. If it doesn’t look or “______,” it probably ______.
Part 2: Be a Good Cyber Citizen
- Communicate responsibly and kindly with one another.
- Respect each other’s ideas.
- Protect your own and other’s information online.
- Stand up to cyberbullying.
- Give proper credit when you use others’ work.
More information on some of these points:
2a. Protecting your own and other’s information online. (Just read through this part.)
Safe Surfing - What is personal information?Personal information is facts about you that makes you unique from other kids.
It’s okay to give out on the Web: / Don't tell anyone:
- your username
(never give out your real name) - your favorite food
- what you want to be when you get older
- how high you can jump
- your real name
- your home address
- your phone number
- where you go to school
- your friends' or family members' private information
- where your parents work
- the name of your baseball or any other sports team
- your passwords
(Your parents are the only people who should know your password!)
2b. Dealing with Cyberbullying Use the same URL/address that you used for the first page in this packet to fill in the blanks for 1-3. Parents, Social Media Safety.
(1) Tell a ______or trusted ______.
(2) Don’t______to messages from cyberbullies.
(3) Don’t ______or delete cyberbullying messages until instructed to do so by an authority.
Also: If you receive cyberbullying messages that are aimed at someone else,
This is NOT on the document from the school site. Fill in the blanks for questions 4-8 using these words:
participate adult Support judging stop(4) ______the targets of cyberbullying, whether you know them or not.
(5) Don’t ______in cyberbulling.
(6) Tell the cyberbullies to ______.
(7) Inform a trusted ______.
(8) Get to know people instead of ______them.
Score ______/8
2c. Give proper credit when you use others’ work.
It is important that you DO NOT plagiarize from the Internet or from other sources.
Learn here about what plagiarism it, why it is not a good idea, and how to avoid it.
Plagiarism vs. Synthesis
a. Go to Click on “for Kids,” search for “plagiarism,” click on “What IsPlagiarism?”
b. Listen to and read along with the information about plagiarism.
c. Fill in these blanks with the missing words from the online article:
What is the definition of plagiarism? Plagiarism is when you (1)______someone else's (2) ______or (3)______and pass them off as (4)______(5)______.
What was the original Latin meaning of the word that became "plagiarism"? (6)______Even if you put the information into your (7)______(8)______, you still should
(9)______the (10)______.
Ask yourself, "Would I know this if I hadn’t (11)______(12) _____ on that (13) ______or in that (14) ______?" If the answer is (15) _______, (16) ______the source.
It's important for kids to be able to (Each of these answers will be groups of words.)
(17) ______,
(18) ______, and then
(19) ______. [This is called synthesis.)
Ask yourself, (20)"______?"
If the answer is (21) ______, beware. You just might be (22) ______.
Most schools are pretty strict about plagiarism. If you're caught, you can wind up suspended or worse. At the very least, you're probably going to (23) ______the (24) ______.
What do we call a list of the sources used for a project or report? (25) a ______
Score ______/25
Is this Plagiarism?
Go to
Use this webpage on S.E. Hinton’s website to help you answer the questions below.
To scroll up and down through this biography, use the horizontal brackets.
Imagine that a student is writing a report on S.E. Hinton. The student writes these passages. Is the student synthesizing or plagiarizing?
Mark each of the following with a P for plagiarism or an S for synthesis (not plagiarizing):
______1. After it was published,The Outsidersgave Ms. Hinton a lot of fame and publicity, and also gave her a lot of pressure. She was becoming known as "The Voice of the Youth."
[The student did not list her sources.]
______2. After The Outsiders became so popular, and she became so famous, for three years she suffered from writers block and depression. Finally her boyfriend, who later became her husband, convinced her to write two pages a day, and that got her started again. [The student also added to the report a bibliography entry for this site.]
______3. Onher own website, S.E. Hinton explains that “A writer's life is not very exciting - usually you're alone in a room with your tools - paper, pen, imagination. (I usually write long-hand first, then put it on a computer.)”
______4. That Was Then, This Is Nowis known to be a much more well thought out book thanThe Outsiders. Because she read a lot of great literature and wanted to better herself, she made sure that she wrote each sentence exactly right.[The student did not list her sources.]
______5. S.E. Hintonhad always enjoyed reading, but she wasn’t happy with the literature that was available at that time to young adults (Hinton 1).
Score ______/10
Part 3: Be Smart About Which Sites You Use.
Use your headphones for this exercise. Score: ______/31
Many teachers will not allow you to use Wikipedia for research purposes.
This explains why.
3a. View and listen to this tutorial:
[That’s n c s u.]
Fill in the blanks for the following cloze exercise. The answers are in order. Not all sentences are included. Some of the sentences are changed, but use many of the same words.
“Wikipedia: Beneath the Surface”
What is a wiki? How does the information get into Wikipedia? Find out what goes on behind the scenes.
A wiki is a special kind of (1) ______that allows many people to (2) ______to the (3) ______.
The word “wiki” means (4)______.
Wikis help people (5) ______(6) ______. . . .
But Wikipedia allows (7) ______in the world to
(8) ______an (9)______.
(10) ______, and then
(11) ______to the information on a topic.
A good page on Wikipedia will include references to (3 words)
(12-14) ______
so readers know where the (15) ______is coming from.
Wikipedia’s guidelines emphasize that all content should present a (16) ______point of view.
On Wikipedia, the content can (17) ______over (18) ______.
You can often find lively debate about the content under the (19) ______tab.
Under the (20)______tab you can see every change that has make on a Wikipedia page, and some indication of who made it.
One of the controversial aspects of Wikipedia is that it’s (21)______to tell anything about the (22) ______.
Unlike Wikipedia, books, journals, magazines, newspapers have gone through a process that assures the (23) ______and (24)______of the information.
Wikipedia articles may contain (25) ______or (26) ______information.
Wikipedia is a (27)______point into other sources like books, articles, newspapers, and websites.
Use it for (28)______information, but dig (29)______and search (30) ______, too.
(31) Now, what do you think is good about Wikipedia? ______
______
3b. RESEARCH:Lewis and Clark – Important Information for Your U.S. History Class Next Year
Go to
allaboutexplorers.com (All About Explorers)
Click on the tab for Explorers A to Z.
Click on Lewis & Clark.
Use this link to fill out this side of the page.
1. According to this Internet site, when were Lewis and Clark born? ______
2. Where were they born? ______
3. What magazine did they both subscribe to? ______
Now start listing the things that make you think that maybe there’s something wrong with this site.
Find as many clues as you can that there’s something fishy about this site – fill in ten here:
Examples: There was noCongressional Human Resources Director at that time.
The report of the Corps of Discovery was much longer than what is shown here.
4. ______
5. ______
6. ______
7. ______
8. ______
9. ______
10. ______
11. ______
12. ______
13. ______
14. What is the copyright date for this site? ______
15. Who wrote this site? (two names) Find them under the “About” tab, then “All About the Authors.”
______
Score ______/15
Totals:
1. Score ______/15
2. Score ______/8
3. Score ______/25
4. Score _____/10
5. Score ______/31
6. Score ______/15
______/104
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