Chatting Safely Online

Games, social media, and other online spaces give kids opportunities to meet and chat with others outside the confines of their real-life communities. But how well do kids actually know the people they're meeting and interacting with? Help students consider whom they're talking to and the types of information they're sharing online.

Objectives:

• Analyze how well they know the people they interact with online.
• Reflect on what information is safe to share with different types of online friends.
• Learn to recognize red flag feelings and use the Feelings & Options thinking routine to respond to them.

Vocabulary 

• private information 
• red flag feeling 
• inappropriate 
• risky

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