eSafety For Kids - Feeling Fishy Online

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

Years 5 & 6 Health and Physical Education

• Plan and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS054)
• Examine the influence of emotional responses on behaviour and relationships (ACPPS056)
• Recognise how media and important people in the community influence personal attitudes, beliefs, decisions and behaviours (ACPPS057)

Year 5 English:

• Present a point of view about particular literary texts using appropriate metalanguage, and reflecting on the viewpoints of others (ACELT1609)

Year 6 English:

• Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts (ACELT1613)

Syllabus outcomes: PHS3.12, SLS3.13, COS3.1, INS3.3, IRS3.11, DMS3.2, EN3-2A, EN3-8D

General capabilities: Literacy, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability

Relevant parts of Years 5 & 6 HPE achievement standards: 
Students explain the influence of people and places on identities. They recognise the influence of emotions on behaviours and discuss factors that influence how people interact. They describe their own and others’ contributions to health, physical activity, safety and wellbeing.

Relevant parts of Year 5 English achievement standards: 
Students analyse and explain literal and implied information from a variety of texts. They describe how events, characters and settings in texts are depicted and explain their own responses to them. They listen and ask questions to clarify content. They recognise the influence of emotions on behaviours and discuss factors that influence how people interact.

Relevant parts of Year 6 English achievement standards: 
Students compare and analyse information in different and complex texts, explaining literal and implied meaning. They select and use evidence from a text to explain their response to it. They recognise the influence of emotions on behaviours and discuss factors that influence how people interact.

This lesson is part of the wider unit of work eSafety For Kids

Time required: 50 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: High – support students with research and ideas

• Device to share video and text with class
• Glossary of Key Terms (optional)
• Handling Sensitive Topics and Issues Factsheet (digital copy)
• Reverse Image Search Factsheet
• Student Worksheet – one copy per student
• The Strange Story of the Singing Clownfish

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Communication
• Digital literacy
• Ethical understanding
• Social skills

Although this can be completed as a standalone lesson, it will be most effective if completed within the sequence of the unit, as follows:

1. Know The Internet
2. You Decide
3. Feeling Fishy Online
4. Express Yourself Safely
5. My Social Brain
6. Cleaning Up

The eSafety for Kids education package was developed in consultation with a team of experts, including a child and adolescent psychologist, education specialist, teachers, parents and in reference to the latest research and guidelines (at time of publication). It is designed to align with the recommendations in the Best Practice Framework for Online Safety Education (eSafety Commissioner).

The images for this eSafety for Kids package are sourced from The Tweeting Galah book series and used with permission from Kim Maslin.