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**Cyber Tree House** [|**http://www.cybertreehouse.com/**]  This website is and interactive tree house that has different information about copyright laws in the cyber world. It is geared toward middle school students and has many different “houses” in the cyber tree to visit. The first “house” has a couple of videos about how to protect creativity and be safe on the internet. The second “house” has three different games and a quiz. The first game is called Piracy Deepfreeze. In this game the ferret (you) kicks a ball to eliminate all of the pirates and stolen material so you can save the city from the deepfreeze. The second game is Internet Images Memory. It is a matching game of cyber images. The third game is Cyber Safe Slide Puzzle. The student tries to slide the pieces around to make the correct image. And the quiz is a five question multiple choice quiz that provides the student with a score at the end.The third “house” is Smart and Uncool. This gives examples of good and bad things to do while the students are online. It provides many good websites that students use effectively for academic activities. The fourth “house” is Be Cyber Safe. This gives a link to the Cyber Ethics Champion Code and Certificate. It also gives students addition links to websites that talk about cyber safety.  I would ask my students to write me a paragraph about what it means to be cyber safe. I would them take them to the computer lab and ask them to go thru this website. They would need to visit each “house” and visit every link at each “house”. I would ask them to save the quiz for the very end or their journey. We would then discuss the possible consequences of not being cyber safe. I would ask my student to take the quiz associated with the website and show me their final grade. I would also ask them to take the Cyber Ethics Champion Code and Certificate home and discuss these topics with their parents. They would need to be brought back signed. Finally, I would ask them to write me another paragraph of what it means to be cyber safe. I would be looking for more detailed information and see if there was progress made in their thinking.
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