Classroom ideas:
• Before watching the video, ask the class to talk in talk partners or alternatively use basketball questioning to discuss ways and places they can be kind online.
• Float the key vocabulary up on the IWB along with definitions. Ask the children to match the vocabulary to the correct definition. Discuss meanings with the class.
Watch the video, followed by a class discussion.
Key discussion questions:
• How often do you spend online each day/week?
• Do you speak to other people online or to leave and see ‘comments’ on the sites you visit?
• Are these comments always kind?
• What can you do if the comments are not kind or do not make you feel happy?
• How could you support a friend who had received hurtful comments online?
• Why is it important to be respectful online?
Compliment challenge option A:
Children to write their name on a piece of A4 paper. Once they have all done this, they can circulate the classroom with the aim of writing a compliment on the name of every child in the class (e.g. she gives great answers in class, he is always helpful etc).
Once the time is up, children to go back to their seats to read the compliments given by other children. This is a personal challenge and again doesn’t need to be shared if they don’t want to.
Compliment challenge option B:
Role play as interviewer and child to answer the questions in their own ways. This could be done as a hotseat activity or in pairs.
Interviewer questions.
Gratitude journal option A:
Give the children a template of a person (or ask them to draw one). Children then write down things they are grateful for inside the person. On the outside of the person, the children can write down emotions which they feel because of the things they are grateful for (e.g. inside – I am grateful for my dog, outside – my dog makes me feel loved).
Scaffold if needed – give children a vocabulary list of emotions if needed.
Gratitude journal option B:
Give the children a template if desired or some lined paper. Children can have a go writing their own gratitude journals. These will be for them to do with as they wish – they do not need to share their ideas with the class if they don’t wish to do so.
Learning Objective:
To identify what it means to be respectful and positive online.
Success Criteria for pupils:
I can define respectful language.
I can explain the impact of respectful interactions online.
I can reflect on my own experiences.
I can create good habits to take forward.
