HOMEWORK INSTRUCTIONS HOMEWORK CYCLE

You will be required to complete two homework projects during the academic year. Each project will

span a two-week period and consist of a number of tasks that will take a suggested amount of time to

complete. All tasks will take an estimated 3 hours 10 minutes, which is equivalent to 25-minutes per

week night.

The homework cycle has been put in place to promote independent learning and self-management. It is

for you to decide when you complete each task so long as all tasks are completed by the set deadline.

You will be informed when your homework cycle starts and when the project is to be completed. You

will be using your Class OneNote to complete your homework electronically. The following information

will help you to do so on time and to the best of your ability.

ACCESSING HOMEWORK

Your teacher will distribute your project to you through your OneNote class book. You will receive a

notification on Show My Homework letting you know that it has been set.

Once distributed the tasks will appear on separate pages within the relevant section on your OneNote

class book.

To access the tasks, you just need to click on the relevant task page and the task will be displayed.

Homework Cycle Section

Project Tasks

PROJECT TASKS

A task may require you to complete a research activity, plan or design a digital artifact, product a digital

artifact or interact with an online activity. All tasks will require the use of a computer and access to the

Internet.

Each task will give you a suggested time to complete, try not to spend any more time than this

otherwise your project may over run the allocated homework time.

Tasks should be completed directly within your OneNote class book on the page that they have been

given to you. You should not complete any tasks on paper or produce alternative electronic documents.

SUBMITTING THE PROJECT

You do not need to submit the project or individual tasks. Your teacher has access to your OneNote

class book and can see all the work you do at any time. OneNote automatically saves whilst you make

changes.

During the two-week cycle your teacher may remind you during lessons if you have yet to complete any

of the tasks in order to manage your time effectively.

HOMEWORK ASSESSMENT

Your project will be assessed in two ways; by yourself - self-assessment and by your teacher- teacher

assessment.

Before starting the homework cycle you will be aware of your current threshold level and the Learning

Pathway you are following. During the homework cycle you will also follow this pathway. At the start of

Suggested time to

complete

Complete directly on

the page

the Homework Cycle section on the introduction page you will see how the project will be assessed by

your teacher and the criteria you will need to meet in order to achieve your threshold level.

Each task will also have the assessment criteria for each pathway so you can clearly identify what you

need to accomplish to reach your threshold level.

Pathway and

threshold

expectations

Assessment criteria

available on the Intro and

Assessment page

Pathway

expectations for

current task

Assessment criteria

available on each task

page

SELF-ASSESSMENT

At the start of the project you should familiarise yourself with the threshold level expectations for the

Learning Pathway you are following.

After completing each task, you should highlight the Pathway criteria you feel you have met. Always try

to exceed your own expectations.

At the end of the project you will need to complete the review task. During this task you will need to

assess your work across all tasks against the project assessment criteria. You should highlight each

threshold band and could revisit previous task assessments to do this. You will then need to evaluate

your work and review your own progress.

TEACHER ASSESSMENT

Although your teacher may periodically check to see if you are completing your project during the

homework cycle they will not mark the tasks until after the project deadline. This will allow you to work

through the tasks in any order you wish and also return to tasks you would like to improve.

Once the project deadline has been reached your teacher will look at each of the tasks you have

completed and leave feedback at the end of the project in the form of a teachers comment on the

Review page.

HOMEWORK SUPPORT

You will be expected to complete all of the homework tasks electronically within your OneNote class

book. You may also need access to the Internet to complete some tasks and use of different software

packages. All of the software that you may need to use will be available to you via Remote Desktop,

however, if you not have access to the Internet please ensure you speak to your teacher and attend

homework club.

HOMEWORK CLUB

During the two-week homework cycle, homework club will be running every lunchtime in the B-Block

from 13:15 until 13:40 and after-school on a Tuesday and Thursday from 15:10 until 16:00. A teacher will

be available to help you access your homework and provide any addition support you may need.

Priority will be given to student who do not have access to computing or Internet facilities at home.

Please also remember the library will be available to you where you can also use a laptop and the

Internet. Please check with Mrs. Evan, the Librarian for more details regarding the use of the library.

Year 7

NAME:

CLASS:

E-Safety – Am I a good Digital Citizen?

ICT Extended Learning Project – Year 7 E-Safety

Learning Objectives

The aims of this project are for you to find out what it takes to be a good Digital Citizen:

Explain Cyber Bullying and the effects it can have on individuals.

Design an effective infographic for a given purpose.

Protect yourself and your identity online.

Find relevant information online and evaluate its usefulness.

Assessment Criteria

Your Extended Learning work will be assessed against the following threshold criteria:

Developing (5-4) Secure (7-6) Excellence (9-8)

You can state what is meant by the term Cyber Bullying.

You can state what is meant by the term Cyber Bullying and can give examples of this.

You can state what is meant by the term Cyber Bullying and can give examples of this. You can give sound advice on how to deal with a cyber bullying situation and understand the implications cyber bullying can have on an individual.

You can design an infographic incorporating text and an image which is clearly related to e-safety

You design a e-safety Infographic which is suitable and conveys the purpose clearly using text and an image.

You can design a simple but effective SMART rules Infographic which clearly conveys the purpose and would remain effective if the was increased in size or used in black and white only.

You know how to protect yourself from obvious dangers such as those posed by strangers online.

You know how to protect yourself from obvious and less obvious dangers e.g. stranger dangers and by people you are know.

You know how to protect yourself from a range of online dangers including personal safety and identity theft.

You can find some relevant information online about e-safety.

You can find a range of e-safety information online and comment on the usefulness of the information.

You can access a range of e-safety online and can evaluate the quality of the information found.

Tasks

You are required to complete all tasks. Next to each task is an estimated completion time.

Task 1 – 60 minutes

Find three useful websites relating to e-safety. List 3 them below and outline the type of

information which can be found there and what age group you think they are intended for.

Website 1

Address

Audience

Information

Website 2

Address

Audience

Information

Website 3

Address

Audience

Information

Which of these websites do you think is most useful and why? Explain below.

Task 2 – 60 minutes

Complete the table below. Firstly, type up what you would do in each situation, then using one of the websites from your research find out what the

experts say to do. If you cannot find the information online discuss each situation with a trusted adult instead.

Situation

What would you do if this happened? What do the experts say?

You click on a link and find a site with unsuitable content

A site asks you to register and give your personal details

You receive an email telling you that you have won £500 in a competition that you don’t remember entering

You find a site which has lots of free games to download

You get an email from a stranger which contains an attachment

You started to get rude or abusive texts or emails from a friend

You started to get rude or abusive texts or emails from a stranger

An online friend asks you to meet up

You receive a friend request from someone you don’t know

You find an online profile that is using your identity without your permission

Task 3 – 40 minutes

Staying safe online isn’t rocket science it’s just being SMART. Find out what the SMART rules are when it comes to staying safe online

Stands for: What the rule states:

S

M

A

R

T

Task 4 – 40 minutes

Design an ‘SMART’ Rule infographic. Design using a computer in the space below.

Task 5 – 40 minutes

Watch the video of Joe’s Story and answer the following questions as fully as you can.

1. What do you think ‘Cyber Bullying’ means?

2. Make a list of the different ways mean messages can be sent to another person.

3. What advice would you give to a friend who is bullied online or by text?

4. If you write mean things in a chat room, by email or in a text, it doesn’t hurt as much as

saying it to someone’s face. What do you think about this statement?

5. At the end of the video Joe’s finally tells his Mum about the bullying. Who else could you

tell?

6. Find a website that tells you more about Cyberbullying. Copy and paste the URL

(address) and list 3 things you learned from the website

i.

ii.

iii.

Task 6 – 60 minutes

Play the Digizen game. You have the opportunity to experience a day at school with Joe, the main

character, and make decisions about how to help him as he experiences cyberbullying. You are

challenged to be a responsible digital citizen and find out more about keeping safe online.

After playing the game write up what you learned below in no less than 200 words.

Task 7 - Self Assessment – 30 minutes

Compare you work against the grading criteria on the front page. Give yourself a level for each task:

Task I think I’m working at Level…

Explain why you think your work meets this

level

Teacher grade and comment

Useful Websites

E-Safety Situation

SMART rules Infographic

Cyber Bullying

How would you improve this work? Give two ways.

1.

2.

Teacher’s Final Comment: