Learn to Find and Check Information Online Safely

You will learn how to find and check information using computers and tablets. When you need pictures or videos for school projects, you can use digital tools to search safely. You will practice asking questions to seek help from grown-ups when looking for information online.

You can use computers and tablets to find pictures and videos for your school work. When you search for information, you look carefully to find what you need. You should always ask a grown-up to help you find safe websites first.

Before you start looking, think about what you want to learn. You can practice asking questions for a variety of purposes to help you know what to search for. This helps you find the best information for your projects.

When you find pictures or videos online, you need to check if they show true facts. True means something is real and really happened, not pretend or make-believe. You can look at different websites to see if they have the same information.

You should also check who made the website or video. When grown-ups you trust help you pick websites, you can find good information. This skill connects to answering questions about key details because you learn to find important facts.

You should always ask a teacher or parent before looking up information online. They can help you find websites that are safe and good for learning. Safe websites are special places on the computer where teachers and parents know it's good for kids to visit.

When you work on research projects, you can learn about being safe online and community safe respectful online behavior. This helps you use the internet in a smart way.

Picture: Something still that you can see with your eyes, like a photo of an animal or place.

Video: Like a picture that moves and tells a story, showing things happening.

Safe Website: A special place on the computer where teachers and parents know it's good for kids to visit and learn new things.

Information: The facts or things you learn, like how many legs a spider has or what color something is.

Search: Looking carefully to find what you need, like looking for a book about dogs or pictures of birds.

True: Something that is real and really happened, not pretend or make-believe.

You can practice finding information by looking for pictures of animals with a grown-up's help. Try checking different websites to see if they have the same facts about your favorite animal. You can also practice using digital tools for writing tasks when you make projects with your information.

When you work together on class research, you can help your classmates find good information too. This helps everyone learn how to be safe and smart when using computers.

Before you start this topic, you should know how to ask questions when you need help. You should also practice recalling personal experience information gathering so you can think about what you already know. Learning about computer and internet basics will also help you use digital tools better.

This topic connects to many other important skills you will learn. You can use research single source information skills when you look at one website carefully. Learning about digital citizenship online rights and online safety navigation digital spaces helps you be a good digital citizen.

You can also practice finding evidence to answer questions and using pictures to find key ideas when you research. After you learn these skills, you will be ready for basic note taking and citations and learning about is this information reliable. You will also be prepared for research using multiple sources and shared research writing projects.