THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF TERMS WE WILL BE DISCUSSING IN THE FOLLOWING WEEKS. Through out the year, the students will be researching topics on the Internet for various reasons, inside and outside of the classroom.  As a part of the Archdiocese Curriculum, Internet safety is a vital topic of education as our students become increasingly computer literate.  These are the terms I will approach as we become a more computer literate 3rd grade. 

• Citizenship: membership in a community
• Contribute: to give to a common cause; to participate
• Credibility: the quality of being believable or trustworthy
• Cyberbullying: online  behavior that is not appropriate.
• Information literacy: knowing how to think critically about resources‚ such as what makes a website reliable
• Motto: a short saying that expresses a rule to live by
• Observe: to watch carefully; to follow a rule
• Private: belonging to a particular person
• Public: available to all people within a broad community
• Respect: to value‚ admire and treat well
• Rumor: unverified talk or opinion that is easily spread to others

•     Student will use the following link to reinforce site navigation skills and begin the Internet literacy skill of reading a webpage.  In this lesson, students will use a worksheet to find birds based on clues, using the following link.