Y5/6 Lesson 1 (Cycle A): Online friendships

Learning about some issues related to online friendships .

Learning objective

  • To begin to understand some issues related to online friendships including the impact of their actions.

 

Statutory guidance

Pupils should know:

  • How to critically consider their online friendships and sources of information including awareness of the risks associated with people they have never met.
  • How to consider the effect of their online actions on others and know how to recognise and display respectful behaviour online and the importance of keeping personal information private.

Success criteria

Non-statutory guidance

Before the lesson

Download classroom resources

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Support them in completing the questions about what they would share or use the version with picture prompts: Activity: Survey – sharing – support version.

Pupils working at greater depth: Add to the survey the possible consequences of sharing some of the information online, by asking children to write ‘Consequences’ as a title in the final column on the Activity: Survey – sharing – extension version (see Classroom resources). This could be done for all the statements or you could ask children to focus on specific items.

 

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

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