Lesson Plans

Provides seven lessons on Internet safety for children and teens.

Lists

Provides a summary of the results of a complaint against Microsoft regarding a potential violation of its privacy policy. 6-99

Provides resources to help consumers protect their privacy online. 6-99

Materials

Describes new law to protect the privacy of children. Effective start date is April 21, 2000. 4-00

Provides free software to make Web surfing safer for children when using Windows Internet Explorer 4.x browser. Versions are planned for the Mac and Netscape. 8-99

Provides sources for filtered searches.

Provides screening of searches, using the Lycos search engine.

Papers

Provides an essay on the shifting norms that support disrespectful behavior in children.

Provides information for parents and children. From the brochure published by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

"A non-profit corporation dedicated to the protection and recovery of missing, abused, and exploited children." Includes tips for parents to help prevent abduction or kidnapping.

"A non-profit corporation dedicated to the protection and recovery of missing, abused, and exploited children." Includes tips for children to help prevent abduction or kidnapping.

Provides methods for controlling access to inappropriate materials for children.

Provides a discussion of methods for controlling access to inappropriate materials for children. Also provides excellent links.

The Recreational Software Advisory Council on the Internet provides a broadly accepted rating system for parents to use in filtering material for children.

Rates the content of popular games to provide a guide for parents. Provides ratings by age of the child and type of inappropriate content. Also provides a summary rating for each game.

Rates the content of popular shows, movies, and games to provide a guide for parents. Provides ratings by age of the child and type of inappropriate content. Also provides a summary rating for each.

Provides ratings for movies, music, CD's and other media for children.

Provides a discussion of safety for parents or teachers to initiate with children. Also supplies sources for online articles on safety.

Child Safety on the Information Highway provides a discussion and guidelines for child safety. It is one of the most authoritative guides on this topic.

Provides symptoms of danger and suggestions for prevention of suicide.

Provides results on how violent video games affect children, especially younger children. Research suggests that exposure of younger children to violent video games is undesirable, but Walsh also made a chilling observation, based on Grossman's work. "The techniques used by the army to enable soldiers to kill are the very same techniques used in today’s violent electronic games."

Projects

Provides activities parents can engage in with their children to help their children become more informed, and safer, consumers.

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